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Using her copy of the Yale Law School Facebook, Luna took a tally and found that Yale and Harvard graduates made up roughly 25 percent of her class. When graduates from Stanford and the other six Ivy League schools were factored in, the percentage reached 50 — but Luna said she was amazed the number was that low.
You're doing the math wrong. You are starting from the whole number and subtracting 75%, instead of starting with the 75%.Colorado10 wrote:Hi all,
I just had a quick question.
According to the following article from the Yale Daily News:
http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/ ... law-cycle/
It appears that 75% of Yale students attended one of the Ivy League colleges + Stanford.
The article states that student body for the 09-10 year came from 185 undergraduate institutions.
The website of YLS states that 255 students were accepted last year.
75% of 255 = 191.25 attended Ivy League + Stanford
25 % of 255 = 63.75 attended other schools.
If that's the case, how can 185 undergraduate institutions be represented by the student body?
Isn't the maximum number of non-Ivy League + Stanford school represented 63?
I'm horrible at math, so I'd appreciate if anyone can clarify the calculations.
Thanksss.
I would think that the editors at the Yale Daily News would have performed at least some preliminary fact-checking.Bildungsroman wrote:Using her copy of the Yale Law School Facebook, Luna took a tally and found that Yale and Harvard graduates made up roughly 25 percent of her class. When graduates from Stanford and the other six Ivy League schools were factored in, the percentage reached 50 — but Luna said she was amazed the number was that low.
Hey Verity,Verity wrote:According to "Luna," the unofficial tally of all the Ivy undergrads make up about half the class, not 75%.
Assuming that 50% = 9 schools (Ivies + Stanford), and every single person in the other half of the 225-person class went to a different UG, then this would still not give you enough people and institutions for what you claim the article said to make sense (9 + 112 = 121).
But:
The article actually says that "In the 2009-’10 enrollment season, the student body came from 185 different institutions, 48 states and several other countries."
If "the student body" means 1L, 2L, & 3L, then this might be possible. I'd even consider factoring in other "institutions" where they might have gotten graduate degrees, if it wasn't for the next sentence seeming to imply that 185 means UG.
No. Let's hope that the DoEd takes away the law school overseeing powers from the incompetent, passive, and unwilling ABA.flcath wrote:Let's hope the ABA cracks down on this kind of false advertising and shuts this TTT down.
You and I have found common ground.scammedhard wrote:No. Let's hope that the DoEd takes away the law school overseeing powers from the incompetent, passive, and unwilling ABA.flcath wrote:Let's hope the ABA cracks down on this kind of false advertising and shuts this TTT down.
Wade LeBosh wrote:Perhaps Ivy grads are much more likely to apply to YLS than non-ivy grads.
Both of these ideas make sense. A big problem with this article is that it doesn't compare the YLS admissions stats to peer schools.chucklesmcgee wrote:Or that people who have the credentials to make it into a top school for undergraduate are going to make up aWade LeBosh wrote:Perhaps Ivy grads are much more likely to apply to YLS than non-ivy grads.overwhelmingdisproportionate percentage of top LSAT scorers.