<p>Obviously Yale Law School is a tough nut to crack and admission will require a top GPA and LSAT score, and attendance at a well recognized undergrad school. My question is: does anyone know any other things that Yale likes - i.e. honors theses, masters degrees, older students, younger students, etc? If anyone has heard anything about the admission policy at this school I'd appreciate your comments.</p>
<p>I guess I also would be interested in the same thing for Stanford. Thanks!</p>
<p>Be extraordinary and do amazing stuff and get an amazing gpa and LSAT score. I don't think anyone is going to really give you any really legit help besides that. Where are you in your college career to be worrying about the specifics of Yale and Stanford law admissions? Just wondering.</p>
<p>I just graduated and am studying for the LSAT. I was just curious if anyone knew anything about their admission policies</p>
<p>I would be dubious of any admissions policies not officially given by the university itself. Deriving patterns from empirical data is not the most reliable method for deciding what activities to perform, and sorting through the data is a tedious process. I recommend calling the individual institutions and request that they field your inquiry. Though their answers may seem ambiguous and generic, it serves the purpose of showing that there is not one specific activity that will help you in the process.</p>
<p>"Be extraordinary and do amazing stuff" care to define these...</p>
<p>Don't get B's.</p>
<p>Don't get under 170 on the LSAT.</p>
<p>Write a masterful essay/personal statement.</p>
<p>...and remember the most important factor if you're qualified will be luck (how many people coming out of your school that year, how the admissions person is feeling that day, when your app is read, etc, etc, etc.</p>
<p>There is not set formula for getting into any of these schools. Seriously, I don't think anyone on the board could give you any specific information besides get a high gpa and test scores. Everything else is just college (and some high school) kids rambling about what they think they know. There just isn't some grand formula. If you think you have the lsat and gpa to be in range, just give it a whirl. College Confidential won't really be able to help you anymore.</p>
<p>Gives the LSAT/GPA grid for Yale Law. With an LSAT between 170 & 174, 1,955 applied and only 318 were accepted (roughly 15%). So getting an LSAT above 170 isn't really going to help you much. ;) </p>
<p>Stratospheric GPA? 19% chance of getting in. In fact, given the fact that Yale rejects over half of the people with 175+ LSAT scores (which is amazingly high) and 3.75+ GPAs, I would say that the numbers get your foot in the door, but you should have other things on your resume.</p>
<p>And a lot of other schools in your sights.</p>
<p>"And a lot of other schools in your sights."</p>
<p>Hear Hear!</p>
<p>just curious, how come it seems like harvard law and stanford law sound more famous than yale law? i dunno, that's what it seems to me.</p>
<p>Harvard Law School is several times the size of Yale Law School.</p>
<p>There are probably several times as many Stanford Law School graduates practicing in California as there are Yale Law School students.</p>
<p>It's well known to people who care about such things, though, that Yale has the most selective law school in the country.</p>
<p>25 people admitted with sub-160s. </p>
<p>25 out of 3,000. That's less than 1% who apply. My guess is that those admittees have very interesting backgrounds - much older students (40s or 50s), Ph.D.s, non-native English speakers, maybe the people who got a 1200 on the SATs but a 3.9 at Princeton and a Fulbright - in short, those who have already demonstrated their post-college success in a thousand ways, who will clearly be successful law students, regardless of LSAT score.</p>
<p>What do you all think of the one with the below 3.0 and 155-159 LSAT.</p>
<p>My crystal ball doesn't tell me that... that one out of 702 people who applied with a sub 3.0 who got in, and with a low LSAT... man, I really don't know. Some special legacy? Severe problems in college (depression?), life goes haywire, but graduates, then gets advanced degrees and has a great story? Maybe someone like an MD or a college professor who is there to bring something else to the class? Bore admission's dean's love child? That's all I got.</p>
<p>yes...i know the story of that man...</p>
<p>there was a hitman hired by the wife of the admissions dean...this hitman went to kill the admissions dean. then, the hitman was like..hey, im at yale right now and my OWN love child with the milk lady wants to go to yale. so the hitman told the admissions dean that he was going to kill him, unless he let his illegitamate child into yale. the admissions dean, happened to have the file in front of him and said...this was meant to be. the hitman spared his life and the admissions dean Instead was left a without a wife. all went well and now the son of the milklady and the hitman is going to yale. </p>
<p>oh... and the hitman decided to marry the milk lady...happy ending! woot woot :)</p>
<p>OH...also, the love child ended up being a pretty good lawyer...and he got his father out of all charges for murder!! YAY FOR LOVECHILDREN, HITMEN AND MILKLADIES</p>
<p>oh my gosh. <em>rolls eyes</em></p>