Colleges with Admissions Rates Above 20% with Strong T14 Law Records

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@AustenNut

Others are welcome to share resources or information on schools that have acceptance rates above 20% that are doing well at sending their graduates on to T14/top law schools

No need. See Law School Transparency.

Outside of Yale, Stanford and Chicago – bcos they have small classes, they can be more choosy – law school admissions is basically two numbers: GPA & LSAT. Of course, Yale & Harvard & Amherst grads do well in professional school admissions, as those schools select only students who are excellent test takers, i.e., they have some of the highest average SAT/ACT scores in the nation, so those same students will ace the LSAT. Said another way, a student with a 173+ from Willamette (the last school on your list) and a 3.9 GPA will not only have a great shot at most of the T14, i.e., high probability of admissions, but will also be extremely competitive at Harvard Law.

@blossom

While I applaud the effort here, this line in particular is really a stretch… no college “supports students with T14 law school ambitions”. There are no committee letters, no gatekeeping, and no standardized “prelaw” curriculum in the way that there is for med school.

Concur.

@NiceUnparticularMan

So personally, I very much disagree with this.

Here is what the College Transition article says on the subject:

College Transisiotn is making a big stretch. Correlation does not equal causation.

Look at the labeling of their tables – Attend Any Law School – which is rediculous on its face. “Any” law school, includes part-time, night, and non-accredited, most of which are relatively easy admits. There are 300+ accredited law schools, and those down in the bottom third have admit rates above 50%, with below average GPA’s and below average LSAT scores. No special undergrad program needed.

@NiceUnparticularMan

Specifically, I think there are in fact institutional differences when it comes to things like the curriculum structure, the faculty norms for teaching undergraduates, the norms for undergraduate participation, the norms for writing specifically, the quality and focus of the pre-law advising, and so on.

And all of this comes out of a applicant’s 2-page essay?

Here’s an old report of LSAT by undergrad. Hasn’t been updated to my knowledge but doubt is has changed much. As Homer would say, Doh!

Ranking Undergraduate Schools By Average LSAT Score

Another law school forum CC thread (Which Ivy Undergrad is Best for Top Law School Admission) introduced a link to “LSAC Top 240 Feeder Schools for ABA Applicants: 2015-2017”. The LSAC list is arranged by number of LSAT test takers from each of the 240 schools. I have rearranged the list to show the schools from highest average LSAT score to lowest. I did not list all 240 schools; I limited the list to the top 100 highest scoring schools. This list is for 2017 (which is in line with the results for the two other years–2015 & 2016–shared by the LSAC). The LSAT is scored from 120 to 180. Obviously, 150 is the mean score, while 152 or is usually the median LSAT score for all test takers in a given year. LSAT score percentiles: 178, 179, & 180 = 99.9% 177 = 99.8% 176 = 99.7% 175 = 99.6% 174 = 99.4% 173 = 99.1% (meaning this score was better than 99% of all LSAT test takers in a given year) 172 = 98.7% 171 = 98.2% 170 = 97.5% 169 = 96.6% 168 = 95.6% (means the student scored …