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Law schools with female majority?

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 9:36 pm
by gatesome
What are some top-50 law schools with 50%+ female student body?

Re: Law schools with female majority?

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 9:41 pm
by McAvoy
There is no reason that this should be relevant to any prospective law student, ever.

Re: Law schools with female majority?

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 9:42 pm
by DoveBodyWash
my guess is that you won't find any. But if you really wanted to find out you could just go look up their demographics one by one

Re: Law schools with female majority?

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 9:46 pm
by fratstar1
Northeastern is like 60% or something.

Not top fitty tho

Re: Law schools with female majority?

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 9:57 pm
by A. Nony Mouse
cusenation wrote:my guess is that you won't find any. But if you really wanted to find out you could just go look up their demographics one by one
Yale is 51% women.

Re: Law schools with female majority?

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 10:02 pm
by Dream_weaver32
Will_McAvoy wrote:There is no reason that this should be relevant to any prospective law student, ever.
Thought maybe this was a female asking so she could look at schools, but the OP is a guy. Law school isn't the place to try and find women lol

Re: Law schools with female majority?

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 10:03 pm
by Dream_weaver32
But as for an answer,Berkeley is 58% women.

Re: Law schools with female majority?

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 10:34 pm
by McAvoy
Dream_weaver32 wrote:
Will_McAvoy wrote:There is no reason that this should be relevant to any prospective law student, ever.
Thought maybe this was a female asking so she could look at schools
Shouldn't make any difference.

Re: Law schools with female majority?

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 10:41 pm
by Dream_weaver32
Will_McAvoy wrote:
Dream_weaver32 wrote:
Will_McAvoy wrote:There is no reason that this should be relevant to any prospective law student, ever.
Thought maybe this was a female asking so she could look at schools
Shouldn't make any difference.
I agree

Re: Law schools with female majority?

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 11:24 am
by Fish127
Nobody considers maybe the OP is just curious or writing a paper or something?

Re: Law schools with female majority?

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 11:27 am
by ymmv
Fish127 wrote:Nobody considers maybe the OP is just curious or writing a paper or something?
And citing TLS poasters as authoritative sources?

Re: Law schools with female majority?

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 6:25 pm
by Fish127
ymmv wrote:
Fish127 wrote:Nobody considers maybe the OP is just curious or writing a paper or something?
And citing TLS poasters as authoritative sources?
Lol no, I mean maybe he/she was looking to be pointed in the right direction. Everybody saying that the M/F ratio shouldn't be a factor in attending LS is kind of common sense. I wouldn't find it as irritating if some of the unsolicited opinions actually came with a real answer to the OP's question.

Re: Law schools with female majority?

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 6:32 pm
by sesto elemento
Boalt: 58% womyn

ETA: scooped

Re: Law schools with female majority?

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 6:44 pm
by dudders
Raw data for recent years is here (not percentage, unfortunately):
http://www.americanbar.org/groups/legal ... stics.html

Re: Law schools with female majority?

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 7:28 pm
by dudders
cusenation wrote:my guess is that you won't find any. But if you really wanted to find out you could just go look up their demographics one by one
Based on most recent available incoming class profile (according to non-scientific Internet hunting/googling), of the top 50 law schools:
- 8 are majority female (50% or greater) (Yale, Berkeley, GW, William & Mary, BU, UNC, Tulane, Maryland) (all between 50 and 58%)
- 1 is 50/50 (Boston College)
- 41 are majority male

However, it should be noted that all but FOUR of those 41 have a student body between 40 and 50 percent female. And, unless you're talking about a huge law school (of which there are only a few), each percentage point represents only 1-3 people (on average). That also means numbers can change pretty dramatically from year to year but maybe only represent a disparity that equals 15-20 people.

The four schools with less than 40% women were Indiana (39%), Utah (39%), Arizona (36%), and BYU (34%).

Yale 51%
Harvard 49%
Stanford 44.8%
Columbia 45%
Chicago 43%
NYU 47%
Penn 44%
Virginia 42%
Berkeley 58%
Duke 43%
Michigan 48%
Northwestern 41%
Cornell 44%
Georgetown 47%
Texas 42%
UCLA 49.4%
Vanderbilt 40%
WUSTL 46%
Emory 48%
GW 53%
Minnesota 42%
USC 47%
Alabama 40%
William & Mary 58%
Washington 46.2%
Notre Dame 41%
BU 50.9%
Iowa 42.5%
Indiana 39%
Georgia 44%
Arizona State 40.6%
Ohio State 44.1%
UNC 55%
Wisconsin 41%
Wake Forest 48%
Boston College 50%
BYU 34%
Fordham 46.9%
Davis 46.7%
Arizona 36%
Illinois 43.4%
SMU 42%
Colorado 44%
Washington & Lee 48%
Florida State 40.7%
George Mason 42.1%
Tulane 50%
Maryland 52%
Florida 45%
Utah 39%

Re: Law schools with female majority?

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2014 7:31 pm
by dudders
dudders wrote:
cusenation wrote:my guess is that you won't find any. But if you really wanted to find out you could just go look up their demographics one by one
Based on most recent available incoming class profile (according to non-scientific Internet hunting/googling), of the top 50 law schools:
- 8 are majority female (50% or greater) (Yale, Berkeley, GW, William & Mary, BU, UNC, Tulane, Maryland) (all between 50 and 58%)
- 1 is 50/50 (Boston College)
- 41 are majority male

However, it should be noted that all but FOUR of those 41 have a student body between 40 and 50 percent female. And, unless you're talking about a huge law school (of which there are only a few), each percentage point represents only 1-3 people (on average). The four schools with less than 40% women were Indiana (39%), Utah (39%), Arizona (36%), and BYU (34%).

Yale 51%
Harvard 49%
Stanford 44.8%
Columbia 45%
Chicago 43%
NYU 47%
Penn 44%
Virginia 42%
Berkeley 58%
Duke 43%
Michigan 48%
Northwestern 41%
Cornell 44%
Georgetown 47%
Texas 42%
UCLA 49.4%
Vanderbilt 40%
WUSTL 46%
Emory 48%
GW 53%
Minnesota 42%
USC 47%
Alabama 40%
William & Mary 58%
Washington 46.2%
Notre Dame 41%
BU 50.9%
Iowa 42.5%
Indiana 39%
Georgia 44%
Arizona State 40.6%
Ohio State 44.1%
UNC 55%
Wisconsin 41%
Wake Forest 48%
Boston College 50%
BYU 34%
Fordham 46.9%
Davis 46.7%
Arizona 36%
Illinois 43.4%
SMU 42%
Colorado 44%
Washington & Lee 48%
Florida State 40.7%
George Mason 42.1%
Tulane 50%
Maryland 52%
Florida 45%
Utah 39%
ps I agree gender breakdown should matter ZERO to 0Ls. i was a curious feminist (and I'm bored right now because football's on).

Re: Law schools with female majority?

Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 2:01 am
by gatesome
dudders wrote:
cusenation wrote:my guess is that you won't find any. But if you really wanted to find out you could just go look up their demographics one by one
Based on most recent available incoming class profile (according to non-scientific Internet hunting/googling), of the top 50 law schools:
- 8 are majority female (50% or greater) (Yale, Berkeley, GW, William & Mary, BU, UNC, Tulane, Maryland) (all between 50 and 58%)
- 1 is 50/50 (Boston College)
- 41 are majority male

However, it should be noted that all but FOUR of those 41 have a student body between 40 and 50 percent female. And, unless you're talking about a huge law school (of which there are only a few), each percentage point represents only 1-3 people (on average). That also means numbers can change pretty dramatically from year to year but maybe only represent a disparity that equals 15-20 people.

The four schools with less than 40% women were Indiana (39%), Utah (39%), Arizona (36%), and BYU (34%).
    Thank you very much for your comprehensive and detailed reply.

    The other posters in this thread were derailed by irrelevant assumptions.

    Re: Law schools with female majority?

    Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 2:28 am
    by Mack.Hambleton
    Well what are you using this data for then

    Re: Law schools with female majority?

    Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 5:11 pm
    by whitespider
    When searching for new medians, I noticed Northeastern is 59% women for their new class.

    Don't know why it matters, but there ya go...

    http://www.northeastern.edu/law/about/quickfacts.html

    Re: Law schools with female majority?

    Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2014 5:18 pm
    by McAvoy
    james.bungles wrote:Well what are you using this data for then

    Re: Law schools with female majority?

    Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 1:36 am
    by 03152016
    op, something about your posts gives me a hunch that your utilizing this information won't produce the intended effect

    Re: Law schools with female majority?

    Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 4:59 am
    by PDaddy
    Dream_weaver32 wrote:
    Will_McAvoy wrote:There is no reason that this should be relevant to any prospective law student, ever.
    Thought maybe this was a female asking so she could look at schools, but the OP is a guy. Law school isn't the place to try and find women lol
    TITCR! If OP wants to look for women he should concentrate on the populations of the universities at-large...just about all are majority women. As for the cities in which they are located? Majority women there, too!

    Women outnumber men by a lot, so I don't know why anyone would be concerned that there won't be enough women - and you certainly can never have too many.

    The hottest women typically don't go into law, even though law schools certainly have a few of them. Anyone scouting law schools for attractive, easy-going women (OP may not be looking for either quality) is misdirecting his energy. The women in law schools are arguably more gunnerish than the men; they really have something to prove. That isn't very sexy.

    But if OP wants to find Hillary Clinton, far beit from me to begrudge him his dream woman.

    Re: Law schools with female majority?

    Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 6:59 am
    by Pneumonia
    H is majority women for the first time this year.

    Re: Law schools with female majority?

    Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 9:38 am
    by A. Nony Mouse
    PDaddy wrote:
    Dream_weaver32 wrote:
    Will_McAvoy wrote:There is no reason that this should be relevant to any prospective law student, ever.
    Thought maybe this was a female asking so she could look at schools, but the OP is a guy. Law school isn't the place to try and find women lol
    TITCR! If OP wants to look for women he should concentrate on the populations of the universities at-large...just about all are majority women. As for the cities in which they are located? Majority women there, too!

    Women outnumber men by a lot, so I don't know why anyone would be concerned that there won't be enough women - and you certainly can never have too many.

    The hottest women typically don't go into law, even though law schools certainly have a few of them. Anyone scouting law schools for attractive, easy-going women (OP may not be looking for either quality) is misdirecting his energy. The women in law schools are arguably more gunnerish than the men; they really have something to prove. That isn't very sexy.

    But if OP wants to find Hillary Clinton, far beit from me to begrudge him his dream woman.
    You are really one of the worst posters.

    Re: Law schools with female majority?

    Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2014 10:29 am
    by sesto elemento
    Pneumonia wrote:H is majority women for the first time this year.
    Christopher Columbus Langdell must be rolling in his grave.