<p>Greybeard, I would take that consent decree with a few grains of salt.
The top law schools care a lot about whether applicants have the intellectual horsepower to do well in school and in an intellectually demanding profession. A 3.8 in philosophy or physics from Swarthmore will trump a 3.8 in kineseology from Florida State every time, LSATs being equal (though I think not many FSU kineseology majors are scoring 179). Whether the handicapping is done by formal metric, or just by “feel,” I am pretty sure that it’s done.</p>