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Does anyone have a sense of whether law schools take into account the grade inflation or grade deflation of undergrads? (i.e. do they look at a 3.7 the same way no matter what school it came from?)

They see the median GPA of applicants registered on LSAC from your school so have a sense of how much grade inflation there is but in the end it's ~90% about your nominal GPA/LSAT score (the other 10% made up of work experience, extracurricular, non-URM diversity, etc). I'm fairly sure grade inflation is not one of the higher items on a law school AdComm's checklist.

it's not that important (less than UG institution, even)

USNews doesn't weight incoming classes by effective GPA adjusted for inflation, so law schools could usually care less. Almost everyone I know at my UG has a better GPA than me, and I still got into a T30 with a below median GPA. I didn't have an awesome LSAT either.

Opie wrote:USNews doesn't weight incoming classes by effective GPA adjusted for inflation, so law schools could usually care less. Almost everyone I know at my UG has a better GPA than me, and I still got into a T30 with a below median GPA. I didn't have an awesome LSAT either.

this doesn't exactly support the statement

JamMasterJ wrote:

Opie wrote:USNews doesn't weight incoming classes by effective GPA adjusted for inflation, so law schools could usually care less. Almost everyone I know at my UG has a better GPA than me, and I still got into a T30 with a below median GPA. I didn't have an awesome LSAT either.

this doesn't exactly support the statement

Sorry. What I meant was that everyone at my UG has a good GPA, so mine would lOok low in comparison. Iowa must not gave cared though because they let me in. Hopefully that makes more sense.

If the school is on the same level, then maybe. For instance, Brown under-performs based on GPA while Princeton and Dartmouth over-perform based on GPA.

I'm relatively sure adcomms do not just happen to know whether grade inflation/deflation goes on at random undergraduate schools, and even if they did know, they still won't care.

Dany wrote:I'm relatively sure adcomms do not just happen to know whether grade inflation/deflation goes on at random undergraduate schools, and even if they did know, they still won't care.

They can tell from your LSAC report but you're right that they don't care.

My joke school REALLLY REALLLY REALLLY shows on that LSAC report

(over half in the bottom 19 percentile, only 1 of 80 before me were in the 95 + percentile) / the high gpa for everyone... really hoping this doesn't hurt me lol