Is there anything "particular" one needs to do to aim for Law School?

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@Boston1993

@Silverturtle

The significant overrepresentation of graduates of top private universities at the top law schools belies your claim. If one’s undergraduate college did not matter, the only differences in representation would be attributable to confounding variables. The extent of the overrepresentation renders that explanation insufficient in my mind.

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<p>Nope. It’s mostly self-selection. Kids that got high sat scores and gpa’s in high schools are likely to get into a great college – and in return get a high lsat and high gpa. There is no evidence that law schools take into account undergrad school.

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<p>What you describe are confounding variables (not self-selection), which I already acknowledged. Consider these numbers on HYPS enrollment at US News’ top two law schools.</p>

<p>Yale Law
Harvard - 76
Yale - 87
Princeton - 27
Stanford - 35</p>

<p>Total - 620</p>

<p>Harvard Law
Harvard - 241
Yale - 113
Princeton - 54
Stanford - 79</p>

<p>Total: 1,680</p>

<p>Number of undergraduates
Harvard: 6,655
Yale: 5,275
Princeton: 5,113
Stanford: 6,878</p>

<p>HYPS Total: 23,971
Total in US: 6 million (four times the 1.5 million figure cited [url=<a href=“http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2007/05/21/070521taco_talk_menand]here[/url”>The Graduates | The New Yorker]here[/url</a>]; because the 1.5 million figure is for graduates, this comparison assumes 100% graduation rate at HYPS, which will slightly hurt my point)</p>

<p>31.0% (712/2300) of Yale Law’s and Harvard Law’s students come from HYPS. About .4% of US undergraduates come from HYPS. HYPS graduates have about 7,650% overrepresentation at the nation’s top two law schools.</p>

<p>How’s that for bringing this claim into question?</p>

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@Boston1993

There is no evidence that law schools take into account undergrad school.

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