<p>so my parents can’t afford to send me anywhere other than my state school, Rutgers University. i really wanted to go into law and my dream law school is New York University which is pretty elite (ranked #6). </p>
<p>would it hurt my chances to go to rutgers for undergrad or should i got to nyu for undergrad and then apply to their law school?</p>
<p>Go to Rutgers. Score 173+ and get 3.8+, then go to NYU Law.</p>
<p>I went to a high-ranked law school and there were plenty of students there from state schools. Of course, it’s difficult to assess the effects on your chances without going through the admissions files. But still, it seems clear that going to a state school doesn’t lock you out of the chance of going to a top law school.</p>
<p>Is NYU even that much more prestigious than Rutgers? </p>
<p>NYU is not on the same level as HYP or any other top ten schools, so the bump in prestige probably will be negligible. Additionally, NYU is notoriously expensive. Considering the fact that you want to go to LS, taking on extra debt for NYU seems silly. That combined with the fact that Rutgers is a well-known flagship university makes it a no-brainer to me. And besides, why would you turn down Big East sports and a traditional college experience for expensive groceries and debt?</p>
<p>“Is NYU even that much more prestigious than Rutgers?”</p>
<p>The OP is probably wondering if NYU Law gives NYU undergrads a boost during law school admissions. It doesn’t.</p>
<p>The OP should bear in mind that most law schools base admissions decisions largely on the effects these decisions will have on their USNWR rankings. USNWR does not factor prestige into its calculations; thus, someone who gets a 4.0 GPA from a state university is more beneficial to a law school’s ranking than someone with a 3.8 from Harvard. That is why law schools generally care very little, if at all, about undergrad prestige. </p>
<p>Certainly, based on the consistency of NYU Law School’s admissions decisions recorded in lawschoolnumbers.com, it would seem that they follow this pattern. Don’t stress out about going to a state school; instead, focus on getting a high GPA and a high LSAT score.</p>
<p>If you get over 172 and 3.7, you are pretty much in for sure.</p>
<p>UG doesn’t matter unless you went HPYS, then you might get a little extra look. Everything else held constant, its negligible.</p>
<p>GPA + LSAT. Do work, son.
Some schools like to see softs or science backgrounds or work experience, but the GPA/LSAT is the universal truth.</p>
<p>Getting into Princeton Law these days is very difficult.</p>
<p>Princeton doesn’t have a law school!</p>