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While I find it hard to believe this apparently is pretty much true for law and med school … I’m not so sure it is for other grad schools. I have two graduate degrees from top schools … one in engineering and one in business management. In both cases the demographics of the students somewhat similar … a large proportion of international sudents … then among the US undergrads they came from a schools up and down the USNEWS rankings … however there definately was a pattern … probably 80% came from top 20 universities or LACs … and among the 20% from non-elite schools the students had much higher GPAs overall; virtually all the non-elite school students had undergrad GPAs of 4.0 or darn close to it … while undergrads from elite schools had much more variance in their grades (including my 3.0 undergrad GPA).</p>