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<p>Yes, but the reason why this issue is significant is that the vast majority of people who fall into the scenario in which you are discussing (humanities grad from state schools who are unemployed) will not crack sufficient LSAT scores for a top law school. (170 or above)</p>
<p>Below are the stats of median LSAT scores of students from some of undergrad colleges with the highest LSAT scores: (this means that all other colleges that are not on this list had lower LSAT scores from their students applying to law schools)</p>
<p>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 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 North Carolina- Chapel Hill 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
Stanford 164
Williams 164
Pomona College 165
Princeton 165
Swarthmore 165
Yale 165</p>
<p>Now, we see that even the most selective undergrad programs such as Yale or Stanford had median LSAT scores of 164-165, from their undergrad population who applied to law school, and even the most selective state school, UC Berkeley, had 159 as median LSAT score from their undergrads. Big state schools such as Florida or Ohio State had 154-155 LSAT as median.</p>
<p>This just means that the VAST majority of people from large non-elite state universities do not score 170+ on LSAT, the score necessary to merit a top 10 law school acceptance. As a result, it would be safe to assume that it is rarity that anyone who goes to law school benefits from the choice to attend law school, since the people who go to top law school are very few out of all law school attendees. </p>
<p>Lastly, if one has the brain power to get into a top 10 law school, I truly believe that the individual in question had what it takes to get into a top college or get a decent job after college to begin with. LSAT is no joke, and it is significantly more difficult than other exams such as SAT or even GMAT. </p>
<p>I just think that there is a very low correlation between the two following samples: 1) unemployed college grad from a large run of the mill flagship university, and 2) a person who has the numbers and intellect to get into a top law school. Instead, I think there is a higher correlation between the following two samples: 1) a college grad who is smart and hard working, and as a result has some decent career options outside of law school, 2) a person who has the numbers to get into a top ten law school.</p>
<p>Where I am getting at is I believe it is dangerous to regard law school as a plan-B fallback option for those masses of unemployed college grads to fall back on. The reason being is that the vast majority of people in that specific sample won’t be beneficiary of their choice to pursue law school, because chances are, they won’t be attending a top ten or T14 law school.</p>