<p>I am currently a HS senior planning to study graduate Law after college. I've heard that law schools look for a high GPA (and high LSAT score) irrespective of the undergraduate college. If this is true, which of the following offers would be the best option for my undergraduate studies? (Unfortunately, the best ones here are known for forcing lower class averages.) Fees and location don't matter and I'm planning to major in Poli Sci (because I'm actually good at it).</p>
<p>UBC (known for grade deflation)
U of Alberta
Ryerson
York
McMaster
Carleton
Waterloo
Queen's
U of Toronto (known for grade deflation)
UCLA (known for grade deflation)</p>
<p>Furthermore, if these options are not realistic for getting into a top-tier LS, should I consider accepting an offer from Bristol (in the UK) for an LLB instead? This is despite Bristol being a lower-ranked university compared with some of the others above and would be a change in career path for me, obviously.</p>
<p>Law school admissions in the US is highly numbers-driven. Your GPA and your LSAT matter much more than the name of the college or university that you graduated from. You can safely choose the least expensive option.</p>
<p>However, from your list of institutions, it would appear that you are Canadian. You need to find out what matters for the law schools in Canada, not what matters for law schools in the US. Each country has its own legal system. You need to attend law school in the country where you intend to practice the profession.</p>
<p>“Law school admissions in the US is highly numbers-driven. Your GPA and your LSAT matter much more than the name of the college or university that you graduated from.”</p>
<p>I don’t believe this statement is universally true. Just as undergraduate admissions take into account the high school you graduated from, law school admissions will take into account the college or university that you graduated from. You will find at top US law schools that there are a disproportionate amount of students who graduated from higher ranked colleges, universities and LAC’s. I do not know whether this is merely a correlation or if there a cause and effect because I suspect there is a correlation between the LSAT score and the undergraduate institution.</p>
<p>“I don’t believe this statement is universally true.”</p>
<p>I believe that attending an Ivy, Stanford, MIT, UChicago, Duke, etc. would give you a small boost. However, none of the schools in the list that the OP mentioned would have a noticeable advantage over another. If you attend a British school, then your college grades would be valued less, and your LSAT gains in weight.</p>