Pre-Law School Scorecard — JD Admission Index

American Study JSC · College Counseling Reference · v1 6 schools shown 11 variables Click any score for citations
Score key 5Exceptional 4Strong 3Adequate 2Weak 1Absent ★ = top weighted score among shown schools
School Pipeline GPA
protection
Pre-law
advising
Internship
access
Research &
moot court
Instructional
design
Narrative
edge
MLS
pivot ↕
MBA/MPP
pivot ↕
Integrated
BA/JD ↕
Joint
Mx/JD ↕
Weighted
total / 5
Click any score circle for explanation + source citations. ↕ MLS pivot = Master of Legal Studies fallback (set to 0% to exclude). ↕ MBA/MPP = business or policy fallback. ↕ BA/JD = formal 3+3 or early assurance programs only. ↕ Joint Mx/JD = JD + MBA/MPP/MPH dual-degree quality at affiliated law school.

Variable weights

Set MLS / MBA/MPP / BA/JD / Joint Mx/JD sliders to 0% for a pure JD-track ranking.

Live ranking (selected schools)

6 of 30 selected

Variable definitions & weight rationale

VariableDefault wtRationale
Note on law school admissions: Unlike medical school admissions, law school applicants are evaluated almost entirely on LSAT score and undergraduate GPA. LSAT is the great equalizer — a 174 from any school opens the same doors. GPA protection (18%) and Pre-law advising (8%) are weighted accordingly. The four plan-B / strategy pivot variables (MLS, MBA/MPP, BA/JD, Joint Mx/JD) total 22% — set all to 0% for a pure JD-track ranking.
Tier classification: Schools labeled "T14 Affiliated" are universities whose affiliated law schools consistently rank within the top 14 nationally (Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, UChicago, NYU, Penn, Michigan, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, Georgetown, UT Austin, Vanderbilt). Schools labeled "Top 50 Affiliated" are universities with law schools ranked 15–50. Note that UC Berkeley and UVA sometimes appear in T14 rankings depending on the year — they are conservatively placed in Top 50 Affiliated here.

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