根據這個數據,我覺得很明顯是極大的劣勢!根據GPA + LSAT (其它top law數據也差不多這樣)。
LSAT跟上不上名校無關,是自己準備。所以你如果在本科班裏GPA不是頂尖尖的,不管你什麽名校畢業都難進top law,除非你學校沒人申請。越是名校申請top law應該越多吧。相反你如果在水一些的學校,top GPA,會容易很多吧。
新生班560人,畢業於173所本科學校。所以最容易進Top Law的人是那種水平高(所以LSAT高),卻自願或非自願去了相對easy學校的人。世界是不是挺公平?
我不是律師,請律師解釋一下吧。
The following is a list of the 173 undergraduate institutions represented by the 1L class in the JD program at HLS for the 2018-2019 school year.
Undergraduate Institutions
American University |
American University in Bulgaria |
Arizona State University |
Ateneo de Manila University |
Auburn University |
Babe?-Bolyai University |
Babson College |
Bard College |
Bates College |
Baylor University |
Beth Medrash Govoha |
Biola University |
Boston College |
Bowdoin College |
Brandeis University |
Brigham Young University |
Brown University |
Bryn Mawr College |
California State Polytechnic University – Pomona |
Carnegie Mellon University |
Case Western Reserve University |
China Foreign Affairs University |
Colgate University |
College of the Holy Cross |
College of William And Mary |
Columbia University |
Cornell University |
Creighton University |
Dartmouth College |
Davidson College |
Drexel University |
Duke University |
Duquesne University |
Emory University |
Ewha Womans University |
Fairleigh Dickinson University |
Fordham University |
Franklin Marshall College |
Furman University |
George Washington University |
Georgetown University |
Grinnell College |
Harvard College |
Haskell Indian Nations University |
Haverford College |
Hobart and William Smith Colleges |
Hofstra University |
Howard Payne University |
Howard University |
Illinois State University |
Indiana University Bloomington |
Johns Hopkins University |
Kansas State University |
King’s College London |
Koç University |
Marquette University |
Maryland Institute College of Art |
Massachusetts Institute Technology |
McGill University |
McMaster University |
Miami University |
Middlebury College |
Moravian College |
Morehouse College |
New Jersey Institute of Technology |
New York University |
New York University – Abu Dhabi |
Northeastern University |
Northern Arizona University |
Northwest Missouri State University |
Northwestern University |
Oberlin College |
Oklahoma Christian University |
Peking University |
Pennsylvania State University |
Pepperdine University |
Pomona College |
Princeton University |
Queens College – CUNY |
Queen’s University |
Reed College |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
Rice University |
Rutgers State University – Newark |
Sciences Po |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University |
Skidmore College |
Smith College |
St. Mary’s College of Maryland |
Stanford University |
SUNY Binghamton |
SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry |
Swarthmore College |
Syracuse University |
Texas A&M University |
Texas Christian University |
The King’s College (NYC) |
The Ohio State University |
Touro College |
Tsinghua University |
Tufts University |
Tulane University |
United States Coast Guard Academy |
United States Military Academy |
Universidade de Sao Paulo |
University of Miami |
University of Alabama |
University of Arizona |
University of British Columbia |
University of California – Berkeley |
University of California – Davis |
University of California – Los Angeles |
University of California – San Diego |
University of California – Santa Barbara |
University of California – Santa Cruz |
University of Cambridge |
University of Chicago |
University of Connecticut |
University of Delaware |
University of Edinburgh |
University of Florida |
University of Georgia |
University of Hawai’i – Mānoa |
University of Hawaii – West Oahu |
University of Illinois |
University of Kansas |
University of Kentucky |
University of Leeds |
University of Maryland |
University of Michigan – Ann Arbor |
University of Michigan – Dearborn |
University of Minnesota |
University of Montana |
University of Nebraska |
University of Nevada – Las Vegas |
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill |
University of North Carolina – Charlotte |
University of Notre Dame |
University of Oklahoma |
University of Ottawa |
University of Oxford |
University of Pennsylvania |
University of Pittsburgh |
University of Saskatchewan |
University of Science and Technology of China |
University of Southern California |
University of Tennessee – Chattanooga |
University of Tennessee – Knoxville |
University of Texas – Dallas |
University of Texas – Austin |
University of Texas – San Antonio |
University of Toronto |
University of Tulsa |
University of Utah |
University of Victoria |
University of Virginia |
University of Washington |
University of Waterloo |
University of Zimbabwe |
Vanderbilt University |
Vassar College |
Virginia Commonwealth University |
Virginia Tech |
Washington University in St. Louis |
Waynesburg University |
Wellesley College |
Wesleyan University |
Wheaton College |
Wichita State University |
Williams College |
Yale University |
Yeshiva University |
York University |
*Note: Data as of 8/29/2018