<p>As another point of interest, here are Penn’s pre-law stats:</p>
<p>[Career</a> Services, University of Pennsylvania](<a href=“http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/gradprof/law/law_stats.html]Career”>http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/gradprof/law/law_stats.html)</p>
<p>Interestingly, in 2008, 436 Penn students or alums applied to law school. The same year, according to LSAC, 222 Chicago students applied to law school. Penn is about twice the size as Chicago, and, despite all the talk about Penn being quite a pre-professional place and Chicago being more academic, Chicago students applied to law school at about the same clip as their peers from Penn. </p>
<p>Now, while maybe Penn’s law applicant group was stronger than Chicago’s, it perhaps provides a more realistic comparison point than Yale. Based on these stats, to be comparable, Chicago would need to send about 10 kids per year to Harvard, 5-6 a year to Columbia, 11 per year to NYU, 8 to Georgetown, etc. If you shift for Chicago’s midwestern location, you would still expect to see Chicago send high numbers to NU, Michigan, etc. Maroon8, if you would extrapolate your anecdotal experiences out a bit, and say that yeah, it’s probably accurate that Chicago’s sending 10 a year to Harvard, 10 to NYU, etc., then maybe we’ve gotten better of late. I still have my doubts, and accordingly would love to see some numbers, either from a current student, or for another invested alum who manages to get through to the remarkably unresponsive pre-law advisers.</p>