The University of Chicago expects jump in yield for class of 2018

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<p>Ennisthemenace:</p>

<p>Your first paragraph is incorrect at least in terms of law schools - here are a couple elites with similar representation:</p>

<p>Yale Law has 15 Duke grads, and 15 UChicago grads (p. 200)</p>

<p>Source: <a href=“Welcome | Office of the University Printer”>Welcome | Office of the University Printer;

<p>Michigan Law has 20-29 Chicago grads, and Duke has 5-9</p>

<p>Source: <a href=“Admissions | University of Michigan Law School”>Admissions | University of Michigan Law School;

<p>Also, I think you’re confusing access to opportunities as somehow being a function of Duke’s brand. In the past, Duke had more students interested in “traditional” post-college opportunities than UChicago, and an atmosphere (e.g. with grade inflation) that lent itself to successful outcomes for those opportunities. </p>

<p>As a case in point, as UChicago’s student body has changed to be more “traditional,” and as grade inflation has arisen at UChicago, outcomes will soon be (if they aren’t already) quite similar between the two schools. A case in point, here are the avg. GPA and LSAT scores for the two schools:</p>

<p><a href=“https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Agfr5qu6TB3AdF9pZjZpbHJzdXM4VmxEWDNSbUNtZ1E#gid=0”>https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Agfr5qu6TB3AdF9pZjZpbHJzdXM4VmxEWDNSbUNtZ1E#gid=0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>UChicago and Duke undergrads both have a median LSAT of 164, and a very comparable GPA (3.46 and 3.44). I can guarantee you this was NOT the case 10 years ago - UChicago’s median LSAT and GPA would have been considerably lower. </p>

<p>I would imagine that, much more so than years past, outcomes from these two schools will be largely comparable moving forward. </p>