<p>Is the prestige of going to an Ivy undergrad cancelled out by the perceived grade inflation? Which factor tends to weigh more overall - prestige or grade inflation?</p>
<p>Nope.</p>
<p>From what I've seen, law school adcoms don't really care about grade inflation. They just want to see high grades, and they don't really care how you got them,as long as you got them. Hence, according to them, a lazy, do-nothing 'A', is better than a hard-earned 'B'. You can ask ariesathena about this.</p>
<p>I'd tend to agree with sakky, though with some qualifications. After all, if the admissions committee is familiar with the rigor of a particular program they might cut you some slack, but overall, take a look at it from the law school's perspective:</p>
<p>Like law school applicants, law schools themselves are competing against one another - though for coveted slots on U.S. News' ranking. One of the best ways they can improve their ranking is to put together a class with high LSATs and high GPAs. To the best of my knowledge, U.S. News does not take into account quality/rigor of undergrad program. Certainly, law schools are not slaves to these rankings, but they are influencial.</p>
<p>If you look on these boards for the number of admits to Harvard, for example, from various schools, you will see an HYP advantage.</p>