In 2008, Princeton’s applicants were less successful than Yale’s in gaining acceptance to the nation’s top law schools, according to data provided by both universities.
Roughly 32 percent of Princeton applications to the top 12 law schools of U.S. News & World Report’s 2009 rankings were awarded admission in 2008, according to the Office of the Dean of the College.

This figure includes applications from seniors as well as alumni. The University declined to provide additional statistics from past years to indicate how the implementation of grade deflation in 2004 may have affected these acceptance rates.

Princeton’s 2008 acceptance rate is lower than the 37 percent acceptance rate for Yale applications to the same schools, according to the Yale Undergraduate Career Services website.

MIT applicants to the top schools were slightly less successful than Princeton ones, though, with an acceptance rate of 30 percent, according to the MIT Career Development Center website. This does not include data for MIT applicants to Northwestern Law School, which were not available.

[Daily Princetonian]

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