What are Liberal Art Schools?

williamsdad
Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:14:35 +0000

Mean LSAT scores at top universities



University of Phoenix 143
Bellevue University 145
FIT 145
Valdosta State University 145
Southern Illinois University 146
Suffolk University 146
Florida Atlantic University 147
Hawaii Pacific University 147
Wayne State University 147
Winthrop University 147
California State Fullerton 148
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey 148
Towson University 148
Baruch 149
The Citadel 149
City University of New York 149
Kennesaw State 149
Houston 149
Marist College 149
Seton Hall 149
University of Nebraska - Omaha 149
University of New Mexico 149
University of North Carolina Wilmington 149
Sonoma State 150
Texas Tech University 150
University of Hawaii 150
University of Mississippi 150
University of Saskatchewan 150
University of South Carolina 150
University of South Dakota 150
University of Wyoming 150
Wright State 150
Franklin & Marshall 151
Marquette 151
Northern Arizona 151
Ohio University 151
University of Cincinnati 151
Arizona State 152
Concordia University 152
Grand Valley State University 152
Michigan State 152
Penn State 152
Purdue University 152
Saint John’s University 152
Saint Louis University 152
Southern Utah University 152
University of California- Irvine 152
University of Connecticut 152
University of Denver 152
University of Miami 152
University of Oklahoma 152
University of Tennessee 152
Baylor 153
Fordham 153
Indiana Bloomington 153
Syracuse University 153
Texas Christian University (TCU) 153
Touro 153
University of Maryland - Baltimore County 153
Ursinus College 153
Virginia Tech 153
American 154
Arizona 154
Ithaca College 154
Ohio State 154
University of California- Santa Cruz 154
University of Florida 154
University of Iowa 154
University of Mary Washington 154
University of Nebraska - Lincoln 154
University of Oregon 154
Colorado University- Boulder 155
Gustavus Adolphus College (is this college real?) 155
Rensselaer Polytech Institute 155
Texas A&M 155
The College of New Jersey 155
University of California- Davis 155
University of California- Santa Barbara 155
University of Georgia 155
University of Illinois 155
University of Minnesota 155
University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill 155
University of Washington 155
Boston University 156
Calvin College 156
Holy Cross 156
Lafayette College 156
Lawrence University 156
Rutgers College 156
University of California- San Diego 156
Wisconsin Madison 156
Texas 156
Calvin College 157
George Washington 157
Tulane 157
University of Southern California 157
Wake Forest 157
Boston College 158
Brandeis 158
Georgia Tech 158
Queen’s University (Canada) 158
Saint John’s College 158
University of California- Los Angeles 158
University of Dallas 158
University of Michigan 158
University of Virginia 158
Washington University in Saint Louis 158
Brigham Young University 159
Byrn Mawr College 159
Colby College 159
Emory 159
John Hopkins 159
McGill 159
New York University 159
University of California- Berkeley 159
Vanderbilt 159
William and Mary 160
Cornell 161
Georgetown 161
Haverford College 161
Northwestern 161
Notre Dame 161
Reed College 161
Washington and Lee 161
Wesleyan 161
Carleton College 162
Claremont McKenna 162
Rice 162
University of Chicago 162
Brown 163
Columbia 163
Dartmouth 163
Duke 163
MIT 163
University of Pennsylvania 163
Amherst 164
Stanford 164
Williams 164
Pomona College 165
Princeton 165
Swarthmore 165
Yale 165
Harvard 166

Source: LSDAS (2008)

A few observations:


USNWR’s rankings do a pretty good job of capturing the quality of the student body at American undergraduate universities.
Rice, NYU and William & Mary grads outperform on the LSAT in comparison to SAT results and thus these undergraduate schools are underrated.
Cornell is the bottom Ivy without doubt and unfortunately for those who claim that Cornell is the “hardest” Ivy to graduate from, these results show that Cornell admits the weakest Ivy League students and graduates a comparatively weak class of graduates.
WUSTL is grossly overrated and its students underperform on the LSAT in comparison to their SAT scores. It is the only major statistical outlier in that direction ironically.
The top LACs(Amherst, Williams, Swat, Pomona,etc.) ARE INCREDIBLE.