<p>A past thread questioned whether WUSTL students are being admitted in significant numbers at top law schools. New information addressing this issue is presented here:</p>
<p>Early</a> offers to Harvard law school on the rise | Student Life</p>
<p>Obviously, definitive answers to this question will require law school admissions data from several years.</p>
<p>Very interesting article. And very good news for Wash U and its students. I’m not at all surprised that Wash U is trending upward in a significant way re top law school admissions.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s a secret to most that while Wash U has long been a very strong school, its strongest students have generally been the large pre-med contingent, lured to Wash U by a very well-regarded pre-med program, life science departments, and world-class medical school. For the past 30-40 years, Wash U undergraduate students have done very, very well in elite medical school admissions. During the past 10-15 years, as the school has become more and more selective (the objective admissions criteria like SAT and GPA are up there with the best of them; anecdotally, the subjective criteria like incredible EC’s are on the rise), the school has certainly become much more balanced across subject area lines. It seems rather intuitive to me that the kind of top students who interest Wash U would four short years later be of great interest to the top law schools.</p>
<p>It would also seem to follow that any increased success of the Wash U student body in top law school admissions can do nothing more than increase Wash U’s overall reputation for quality. (And before any debate ensues, I’m not talking about the silly USNWR numbers, whether Wash U “ranks” 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, or 20 according to a magazine’s goldmine of a “GIGO” ranking system; rather, I’m simply talking about “real” quality as understood by those in the know, including the admissions committees of various law schools).</p>