<p>Does going to the same university for undergrad help when you apply for its law school?
EG. Columbia College ---> Columbia Law</p>
<p>I heard that numbers (LSAT, GPAs) matter significantly for law admissions so schools with grade deflation can kind of hurt. But what if the "easier" college had no law school?</p>
<p>I'm simply just curious... my friend ultimately chose Penn over Brown because they had a law school (but not only because of it, she liked Penn too).</p>
<p>I think that there might be a tiny bias when admissions officers look at the UG school and notice that you are applying from the same one as the LS. Nothing big though</p>
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<p>That’s just a silly reason, regardless of whether she had other reasons for making the choice she made.</p>
<p>Yes, most LSs give a slight bump to applicants from the affiliated UG. However, you don’t know whether you will benefit from the bump because there’s no way you can tell what your GPA and LSAT will be when you start college. The bump really only helps those who are in the lower part of the “zone.” </p>
<p>In other words, if your friend goes to Penn and gets a 4.0 and 180 LSAT score and assuming she actually ends up applying to law school, she’ll probably shoot for and be admitted to LSs ranked higher than Penn. The “bump” won’'t matter since she won’t take advantage of it. </p>
<p>If your friend goes to Penn and gets a 3.0 and a 160 LSAT, she won’t get into Penn anyway. So again, the bump won’t help. </p>
<p>Only a small number of Penn UGs who want to go to LS will have gpas & LSATs such that the boost they get will help them get into Penn LS.</p>