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<p>A graduate degree is a soft factor. It helps a litte, but not much in law school admissions. Your GPA is “frozen” when you receive your first undergrad degree. </p>
<p>Looking at Yale Law’s stats can be misleading. I don’t know what the current #s are, but in a lot of entering classes, there are as many as 70-80 incoming students who have deferred admission. A lot of these students were admitted as college seniors but deferred to get a graduate degree–often as a Rhodes, Marshall, Gates, Fullbright, etc. scholar.Many of the top colleges have their own fellowships whereby graduates can attend a year or more of grad school in a foreign country, usually, though not always, England. Others had the credentials to get in in the first place, but started working towards a Ph.D. and then become disillusioned and decided to go to law school instead. </p>
<p>Getting a grad degree–no matter how well you do in it–won’t wipe out a mediocre college GPA.</p>