does the name of college really not matter in admissions?

[cellardweller]

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Also, the comment that Harvard takes more of their undergrads than ones from other schools doesn’t necessarily mean they favored their own. There is a good chance that those students did very well on their LSAT. Since they obviously did well on their SAT’s and in school in general to get into Harvard in the first place, they could just be smart and do well, which shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone. So of course they would have a high percentage of qualified applicants.

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<p>The fact is that HLS admits Harvard undergrads at a rate 3 to 4 times greater than Yale or Columbia applicants for instance. It would be very hard to argue that the Harvard applicants are that much more qualified than applicants from other top schools.</p>