GPA/LSAT are not all that matters

bluebayou
Tue, 08 Sep 2015 00:54:41 +0000

Happy:

personally I am of the opinion that undergrad (and grad, if appropriate) do matter, but only at the margins. And for the purposes of cc, that means it should not be a criteria for choosing an undergrad college. There are just too many other factors involved for an 18-year-old looking at colleges. In other words, for example, don’t accept a top private over the instate public if the additional expense will weigh heavily on the family, if the sole reason for selecting said top private is to boost chances of admissions – however small that boost may be – to HLS.

So in that sense, I agree with the Demo shortcut bcos most folks asking on cc are inquiring about undergrad college selection, and to me, any marginal benefit in Prof School admissions is too minor to consider. (But not saying that top privates should not be selected in their own right. They offer much that instate publics do not.)

Does this make sense, or is my logic muddled?