<p>Complete your anecdote. At which institution is your HS Val currently enrolled?</p>
<p>Applying to just one lower Ivy would have been a stupid decision, and UChicago attracts a self-selecting pool of candidates.</p>
<p>A law school education costs $300,000, and drops in medians threaten an institution’s standing and therefore its desirability to prospective matriculates, such that “T10” schools have adopted desperate measures, throwing vast sums of money at 3.0/170s. </p>
<p>With respect to Asian ethnicity, I’ll only speculate that one fares fine as an Asian woman, since this allows admissions to kill the minority and gender birds with one stone, and WASP and Jewish BigLaw partners all burn with Yellow Fever.</p>