Why isn't prestige taken into account?

[ucbalumnus]

@Corbett

About 20 years ago, there was a lawsuit involving admissions practices at Boalt Hall (the Berkeley law school). Boalt was forced to disclose the way that it handled undergraduate GPAs from different schools. Basically GPAs from some schools were adjusted upward, while GPAs from other schools were left unchanged or even adjusted downward.

Note, however, that the adjustments were based on LSAT scores, rather than the grades eventually earned in law school.