<p>As I’ve written before, there’s probably not much point in engaging this particular poster who has appeared on the Princeton forum under various names and always with the same distorted and negative agenda.</p>
<p>Here is the truth. </p>
<p>Princeton provides excellent pre-law preparation for those interested and its graduates do extremely well at admissions to the top law schools in the country. What is also true is that a smaller percentage of Princeton graduates apply to law school than graduates of Yale or Harvard where it is more popular. As another poster has pointed out, Princeton graduates have been heavily recruited into jobs in finance and consulting (about the same as Harvard and far more than Yale) making law school a less necessary or popular choice. I suspect that another one of the reasons a smaller percentage of Princeton graduates apply to law school is that there are far more engineering majors who are highly unlikely to go that route. When they do apply, they do very well.</p>
<p>Last year only 6% of the Princeton graduating class applied to law school (a total of 74 students). It appears that all were accepted to at least one of the schools to which they applied and they were accepted at high rates (much higher than the average acceptance rates) at all of the top law schools. The average LSAT scores for graduating seniors at Princeton are the same as Yale’s and second only to Harvard’s.</p>
<p>Comparison of Average LSAT scores for graduating seniors from one year ago (180 is a perfect score)</p>
<p>166—Harvard
165—Princeton, Yale
164—Stanford
163—Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Duke, MIT, Penn
162—Chicago </p>
<p>The accomplishments of Princeton lawyers are significant. In fact, despite Princeton’s small size, more of its undergraduates have become Supreme Court Justices than the graduates of any other college in the nation. Currently, there are two Princeton graduates among the nine Supreme Court Justices. Only Stanford is as well represented among undergraduate alma maters on the current court.</p>
<p>Like many of my friends, I attended Harvard Law immediately after Princeton. Also like most of them, I had my pick of the leading law schools in the country.</p>