Undergraduate Representation at Yale, Stanford and the University of Chicago Law Schools

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Stats I found online for those of you who are interested in prelaw -

Yale Law School, 2019-2020 total enrollment

1 - Yale (90)
2. Harvard (54)
3. Columbia (34)
4. Princeton (31)
5. Stanford (22)
6. Dartmouth (21)
7. Cornell (19)
8. UChicago (18)
9. Brown (17)
10. Upenn (16)
11. Georgetown (13)
11. Berkeley (13)
13. Duke (10)
14. Northwestern (8)
14. USC (8)
14. Michigan (8)
17. JHU (7)
17. UVA (7)
19. Amherst (6)
19. Swarthmore (6)
21. Bowdoin (5)
21. NYU (5)
21. Tufts (5)
21. UCLA (5)
21. UConn (5)
21. UNC-Chapel Hill (5)

Stanford Law, classes of 2020-2022

https://www-cdn.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/WhosWho_Complete_201920_FINAL_102019-1.pdf

  1. Yale (56)
  2. Stanford (46)
  3. Harvard (39)
  4. Princeton (24)
  5. Columbia (21)
  6. Berkeley (20)
  7. UPenn (19)
  8. Duke (18)
  9. UChicago (17)
  10. UCLA (16)
  11. Cornell (13)
  12. Georgetown (13)
  13. Dartmouth (12)
  14. Oxford (12)
  15. Brown (11)
  16. Cambridge (10)
  17. NYU (9)
  18. Vanderbilt (9)
  19. USC (9)
  20. Notre Dame (8)
  21. UVA (8)
  22. Pomona (8)
  23. Middlebury (6)
  24. Williams (5)
  25. Amherst (4)
  26. Swarthmore (4)
  27. Wellesley (4)
  28. Wesleyan (4)

UChicago School of Law, 2020-2021 total enrollment

https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1135&context=lawschoolannouncements

  1. Chicago (45)
  2. Berkeley (20)
  3. Northwestern (18)
  4. Yale (16)
  5. UCLA (15)
  6. Duke (15)
  7. Cornell (15)
  8. Brown (14)
  9. Columbia (13)
  10. Harvard (13)
  11. Georgetown (12)
  12. Texas-Austin (12)
  13. USC (11)
  14. UFlorida (11)
  15. Washington University - St. Louis (10)
  16. UMichigan (10)
  17. Stanford (10)
  18. BYU (10)
  19. Princeton (9)
  20. UIUC (9)
  21. Rice (8)
  22. Alabama (8)
  23. Notre Dame (8)
  24. Penn (8)
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Are you surprised that highly selective undergraduate colleges whose students had strong high school academic performance (predictors of college performance) and standardized test scores (pre-COVID-19; predictors of future standardized test scores like the LSAT) have relatively more pre-law students who can put up strong applications to highly selective law schools? Or that large state flagships have top-end cohorts of students who are similar in this respect?

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Only non-top 50s were UConn (Yale), BYU and Alabama (Chicago). And UT and Illinois in the 40s (Chicago). I thought Wisconsin might make the cut at Chicago or The Ohio State with huge classes and proximity.

Columbia does well for having a small Ivy class.