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does going to UVA undergrad carry any weight for UVA law?
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 4:21 pm
by philly93
title says it all
Re: does going to UVA undergrad carry any weight for UVA law?
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 4:54 pm
by WahooLaw24
I don't know that anyone would be able to answer that question definitively one way or another. If you're a resident of Virginia, that will help your chances as the law school has to take a large amount of Virginia residents to fill every class.
Most likely going to UVA for undergrad will just help you write a more convincing and detailed "Why UVA," which would help you in a way. To say that the adcomm will give you bonus points for going to undergrad there would just be speculation though.
Re: does going to UVA undergrad carry any weight for UVA law?
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 10:54 pm
by krookard
It definitely does. The career center has the numbers for UVA undergrads being accepted into UVA law and they are significantly lower than the overall medians. Unsure what I did with the printout but they can give it to you.
Re: does going to UVA undergrad carry any weight for UVA law?
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 11:06 pm
by l0g0s
krookard wrote:It definitely does. The career center has the numbers for UVA undergrads being accepted into UVA law and they are significantly lower than the overall medians. Unsure what I did with the printout but they can give it to you.
Overall medians or VA resident medians? This is likely to be a byproduct of many UVA undergrads being VA residents.
Re: does going to UVA undergrad carry any weight for UVA law?
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 11:18 pm
by Lumieres
WahooLaw24 wrote:If you're a resident of Virginia, that will help your chances as the law school has to take a large amount of Virginia residents to fill every class.
Does this apply to all other public, state schools?
Re: does going to UVA undergrad carry any weight for UVA law?
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 11:20 pm
by BigLawer
If you are a resident that will help. They have a 40% (i think) in state requirement. I know a couple people who are 1Ls and went to UVA for UG. Does it give you a leg up over W&M or U Richmond? Nope not at all
Re: does going to UVA undergrad carry any weight for UVA law?
Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2013 11:39 pm
by 09042014
Lumieres wrote:WahooLaw24 wrote:If you're a resident of Virginia, that will help your chances as the law school has to take a large amount of Virginia residents to fill every class.
Does this apply to all other public, state schools?
No usually not. Michigan, Penn, Berkeley are free to take who they want.
Re: does going to UVA undergrad carry any weight for UVA law?
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2013 1:13 pm
by longlivetheking
Desert Fox wrote:Lumieres wrote:WahooLaw24 wrote:If you're a resident of Virginia, that will help your chances as the law school has to take a large amount of Virginia residents to fill every class.
Does this apply to all other public, state schools?
No usually not. Michigan, Penn, Berkeley are free to take who they want.
i approve this penn-trolling
Re: does going to UVA undergrad carry any weight for UVA law?
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 1:03 pm
by star fox
Desert Fox wrote:Lumieres wrote:WahooLaw24 wrote:If you're a resident of Virginia, that will help your chances as the law school has to take a large amount of Virginia residents to fill every class.
Does this apply to all other public, state schools?
No usually not. Michigan, Penn, Berkeley are free to take who they want.
Penn, like NYU, is private despite the very public sounding name.
Re: does going to UVA undergrad carry any weight for UVA law?
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 1:08 pm
by curious66
john7234797 wrote:Desert Fox wrote:Lumieres wrote:WahooLaw24 wrote:If you're a resident of Virginia, that will help your chances as the law school has to take a large amount of Virginia residents to fill every class.
Does this apply to all other public, state schools?
No usually not. Michigan, Penn, Berkeley are free to take who they want.
Penn, like NYU, is private despite the very public sounding name.
Michigan is free to take who they want for the most part, although they have about 20% Michigan residents, only 2% of the Law School funding is from the state.
Berkeley takes about 50% California residents -- and I believe is more dependent on CA state funding.
UT for example is required to take about 70% instate (best I remember).
Penn is not a public university as the poster noted above
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Re: does going to UVA undergrad carry any weight for UVA law?
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 1:16 pm
by Big Dog
Berkeley takes about 50% California residents -- and I believe is more dependent on CA state funding.
That is more a result of self-selection by the applicants, which tend towards an east coast bias/preference.
Re: does going to UVA undergrad carry any weight for UVA law?
Posted: Mon Mar 11, 2013 6:23 pm
by voytek
BigLawer wrote:If you are a resident that will help. They have a 40% (i think) in state requirement. I know a couple people who are 1Ls and went to UVA for UG. Does it give you a leg up over W&M or U Richmond? Nope not at all
There is not a set-in-stone requirement since the law school is financially independent from uva undergrad. When I visited the school last year the admissions deans said they shoot for around 30 percent VA residents but it's give or take.
I agree with above that having gone to UVA undergrad probably will help you write a better "why UVA" essay and therefore avoid YP.