Does the undergraduate school matter?

dcfca
Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:48:27 +0000

Where did I say that UT was better than Harvard or Georgetown? Nowhere at all. All I was trying to say was that you can come from a large state school and still get into elite law schools. The OP mentioned that his school has 30,000 undergrads, I was JUST trying to say that my school has a comparable population and is able to put kids into HLS.

Instead of arguing with me Wildflower and Nspeds, why don’t you focus on giving the OP valuable information? If you want to debate you really should do it elsewhere. The OP asked a question and neither of you have attempted to answer it.

edit:

The fact of the matter is this: Law school admissions are mainly a numbers driven process. If you go to Harvard and get a 139 on the LSAT will you get into Harvard Law? I’d say that it’s very unlikely. If you have the extremely strong numbers and you’re able to bring something special to the table then that will probably outweigh the ‘name’ of the school you go to. Numbers will be the most important factor of the application.

What I should have done from the beginning was not mention UT’s placement abilities in comparison to ASU’s but rather try to determine why these schools and other large schools tend to differ in terms of the numbers getting into HLS. As for that, I’m not sure. Maybe ASU and UT differ in terms of grade inflation? Because GPA would play a major part in getting into the elite schools. LSAT is another factor but it’s my belief that one can self study for standardized tests so that shouldn’t be contingent on the school the individual attends.