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<p>For the prospective pre-laws out there... here's all schools with 10+ students at YLS, ranked by students-per-capita (i.e. normalized for UG enrollment at the school)</p>

<p>College / # YLS Students / # Students Normalized*
1. Yale / 79 / 1.5</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard / 73 / 1.0</li>
<li><p>Princeton / 40 / 0.8</p></li>
<li><p>Amherst / 11 / 0.6</p></li>
<li><p>Williams / 12 / 0.6</p></li>
<li><p>Stanford / 28 / 0.4</p></li>
<li><p>Dartmouth / 16/ 0.4</p></li>
<li><p>Columbia / 23 / 0.3</p></li>
<li><p>Brown / 19 / 0.3</p></li>
<li><p>U Chicago / 17 / 0.3</p></li>
<li><p>U Penn / 22 / 0.2</p></li>
<li><p>Duke / 12 / 0.2</p></li>
<li><p>UC Berkeley / 12 / 0.0</p></li>
<li><p>U Michigan / 11 / 0.0</p></li>
</ol>

<ul>
<li>Normalized = # YLS Students / UG Enrollment * 100 (the multiplication by 100 is just to make it more readable)</li>
</ul>

<p><a href="http://www.yale.edu/printer/bulletin/pdffiles/law.pdf"&gt;http://www.yale.edu/printer/bulletin/pdffiles/law.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Maybe this should go into law school forum.</p>

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<p>Posted there too, but thought it may be helpful to people here as well? I’ve not been on CC for years, so I may be out of touch with the norms.</p>

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<p>You missed UCLA</p>

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<p>I’m a bit surprised UCLA has that many students at YLS. I think in 2010 / 2011, they only had 6 students represented. So this is quite an increase.</p>

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<p>“Feeder” statistics probably tell us as much about student preferences as anything else.
Does YLS prefer Amherst and Williams applicants to Pomona and Carleton applicants with equal GPAs and LSAT scores? I doubt it. To measure a real admission advantage, you’d have to compare admission rates of applicants from different colleges with equal stats. </p>

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<p>Stupid to normalize by entire population of a school when there are schools that have engineering, theater or other majors where they aren’t desiring law school. It should be normalized by the UG number of those in the college’s arts and sciences. </p>

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<p>What about those who where admitted to YLS but opted to enroll in HLS or Stanford Law, or in there own law school?</p>