Law or Med school?

sakky
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:34:37 +0000

Virtually anyone who can get into Berkeley can get into law school.



Well, I wouldn’t go that far. According to the statistics, of those who reported in during the last 5 years, only 75-81% of Berkeley undergrads who applied to law school got into one, which means that 19-25% of them got rejected from every law school they applied to.

[Career Center - Profile of Law School Admissions - UC Berkeley](http://career.berkeley.edu/Law/lawStats.stm)

Now, granted, some of those students may have just applied to only top law schools (and got rejected from all of them). However, if you look at the statistics of the specific law schools in question, you will note that some Berkeley students applied to no-name, low-tier law schools…and still got rejected. For example, 7 people applied to Western State University College of Law, which is not even a fully ABA accredited law school (it is only provisionally accredited). Of those 7 applicants, the majority (4) actually got rejected.

And of course that’s just talking about those students who actually apply. Many Berkeley students who want to go to law school won’t even apply because they know their grades and LSAT scores are too low for them to get in. For example, if you have a 2.1 GPA and a mediocre LSAT score, you know you’re not going to get into any law school, so why even apply? Or, even worse, what if you flunk out of Berkeley completely as some students do?