Pre-law/Polysci?

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That the top Ivies have the best law school placement doesn’t prove that going to a top Ivy gives you a significant advantage over ‘lesser’ schools. The most reasonable explanation for top undergrads’ success in top law school placement is that kids at the top undergrads have slightly higher LSAT scores than kids at slightly lesser schools.

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<p>After much digging it appears that law schools have narrow lsat ranges:</p>

<p>[Columbia</a> Law School | Admission and Application Information](<a href=“http://www.law-school-admission.com/Columbia_Law_School/]Columbia”>http://www.law-school-admission.com/Columbia_Law_School/) </p>

<p>Average LSAT between universities does vary a fair bit between schools:</p>

<p>[schools</a>’ mean LSAT](<a href=“schools' mean LSAT Forum - Top Law Schools”>schools' mean LSAT Forum - Top Law Schools) </p>

<p>and acceptance rate to top schools does not vary by as much as I thought:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/662310-ranking-undergrad-highest-acceptance-rates-law-school-4.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/662310-ranking-undergrad-highest-acceptance-rates-law-school-4.html&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>So basically top schools just have smarter students who score better on the LSAT and top law schools mostly take high lsat scorers so differences in undergrad representation can be explained by this. Meaning at Columbia if you score a 169, you are above average, at U Mich you are significantly higher above average with a 169, but your chances of admission will not change much with 169 at Columbia vs. 169 at Mich for say YLS. There does seem to be evidence that you are more likely to get into your own law school from undergrad, so H undergrad helps you get into hls and C undergrad helps you get into CLS. The reason for this is because CLS and HLS expect a higher yeild from their own undergrads.</p>