<p>What is Dartmouth's Acceptance Rate to Law Schools? Anyone have data that answers this question?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>99.9%. You have to really screw up to not get into ANY law school from Dartmout lol. Better question is Dartmouth's acceptance to top schools.</p>
<p>slipper, do you happen to know the acceptance rate to top schools?</p>
<p>confusedforsure,</p>
<p>you must keep in mind that not every student who goes to law school goes directly from undergraduate. The average law school population is now older with students having a few years of work experience under their belt before attending.</p>
<p>Even your question of admission to a top rated school is a relative thing depending on where you ultimately decide to practice and and they type of law your are looking to practice. The answers will be varied depending upon who you talk to. If you are looking to practice in the Mid-atlantic states, Chicago and CA, then H,Y, Columbia and that ilk the "top law school" will take you a long way. If you are practicing in the south, then top law school would be vanderbuilt, emory, etc. At other places it would be the law school which is part of the state U. there is no one "right" answer.</p>
<p>I short, if you are aksing do Dartmouth students get accepted to H, Y, S, Columbia, NYU, stanford, etc for law school- the answer is yes they do.</p>
<p>there are a number of threads on the parent forum which address law school written by parents who practice law in various settings.</p>
<p>sybbie, that link didn't work for me for some reason. Do you have another link to that forum?</p>
<p>Dartmouth a top feeder for the best post-graduate programs. It trails only HYP among the Ivies (Dartmouth is ranked above Columbia, Brown, Cornell & Penn.) From Wall Street Journal:</p>
<p>the title of the thread is calling all lawyers please aind it is on the Parent's forum</p>
<p>Thank You for the help</p>
<p>generally there isn't much boost from having a "dartmouth" name, but that's same for all undergrads at all law schools. it's GPA/LSAT straight, with very little soft factors. and undergrad school is the softest of them all.
so technically it should be more or less the same, and dartmouth has some pretty unhelpful (in my experience and in many others; some have found otherwise) pre-law stuff. basically don't worry about law schools. no matter where you go, you stand the same chance. dartmouth looks like we place better becasue, let's face it, we have higher median GPA (wooho grade inflation) and higher LSATs (since we're smarter and stuff). one thing that may be of help is the fact that we are also generally better writers, and that's about as good a soft factor you can get. and better recs.</p>
<p>Agreed. All the top 10-12 schools are viewed the same in the end for law school. Its GPA/ LSAT.</p>