<p>Even if you could show a clear pattern of T14 law schools favoring Stanford applicants over Cornell and JHU applicants (which I’m not sure you can*), it wouldn’t tell you anything about Princeton econ applicants v. WashU biomedical engineering applicants. Remember, we’re talking about a $160K price spread here. So the evidence ought to be persuasive that WashU just won’t get the OP where he’d need to go for a career outcome as good as what he’d get from 4 years at Princeton.</p>
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<li>It appears that Stanford applicants required, on average, higher LSAT scores to be admitted to Harvard Law School than Cornell or JHU applicants. JHU admits had lower mean GPAs than Stanford admits, too. Although, what we may be seeing is simply that Stanford generates many more applicants to HLS (and that those applicants happen to bring higher average stats to the table). To show a clear admission preference for certain school brands, what you need to compare is not the mean stats of the students who were accepted, but the admission rates of students from different schools with identical GPAs and scores.<br></li>
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