McDaniel College 

McDaniel Effect
The following information provides statistics on the effect McDaniel has on graduating students and their LSAC Scores and admissions to law schools. In upcoming months, this information will be supplemented with profiles on lawyers who have graduated from McDaniel, highlighting the various types of law one can enter.

LSAT scores are out of 180.  Only two percent get about 170.

The average number of law schools (applied to by our students) varies but appears to go up.  One student applied to 15 schools last year.  No one in the last ten years has applied to only one school.

I don’t have information on the majors of former students.  I do know some but most if not all of that data in antidotal.

Number of students accepted refers to the number of student accepted to at least one law school.

The admitted students’ stats are only for undergraduates who applied in their senior year.  The phrase current student refers to these students in the respective years.

 

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

#of  Current  Students

18

17

15

17

17

17

16

13

15

12

#of  former  Students

0

0

0

5

8

10

14

17

15

20

Average LSAT of Current

154

157

152

157

158

154

154

154

154

159

Average LSAT of Former

151

152

154

154

154

153

152

151

152

154

Average GPA of Current

3.75

3.65

3.32

3.45

3.56

3.42

3.25

3.38

3.34

3.81

Average GPA of Former

3.25

3.27

3.30

3.25

3.35

3.21

3.15

3.25

3.20

3.55

Average # of Law Schools

5

7

9

6

6

7

9

9

10

12

#of  cur Students Accepted

15

14

14

16

13

14

12

13

14

12

#of for Students Accepted

0

0

0

2

4

6

10

12

10

17

# of Poli. Sci. Majors

14

13

12

15

13

14

15

12

12

9

Other Majors

4

4

3

2

2

3

1

1

3

3

# admitted to top tier

3

4

3

5

6

3

2

1

3

4

# admitted to middle tier

10

10

8

10

11

12

13

6

8

7

# admitted bottom tier

15

13

14

12

16

15

15

12

11

10

 

Schools we have sent students to in the past ten years by tier.

Top Tier

Stanford University Law School   

Duke University School of Law

New York University School of Law

Pennsylvania (U. of) Law School 

Virginia (U. of) School of Law

The George Washington U. Law School

Boston College School of Law

Boston University School of Law

Maryland (U. of) School of Law

 

Middle Tier

University of Denver

Florida (U. of), Fredric G. Levin College of Law     

William & Mary Law School

Texas (U. of) School of Law

Washington U. School of Law

Washington and Lee U. School of Law

Richmond (U. of) School of Law

Seton Hall University School of Law

Creighton University School of Law

Valparaiso U. School of Law

Villanova U. School of Law          

American U., Washington College of Law             

Rutgers – SUNJ

 

Bottom Tier

Wake Forest U. School of Law

Northeastern U. School of Law

George Mason University School of Law

Catholic U. of America, Columbus            

Rutgers U. School of Law – Newark

Penn State U./Dickenson

West Virginia U. College of Law

Hofstra University School of Law

Syracuse U. College of Law

Suffolk U. Law School     

New England School of Law

Baltimore (U. of) School of Law

Franklin Pierce Law Center

Widener U. School of Law – Harrisburg

 

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