Thank you for the response, but your reference to the GMAT and GRE are not only irrelevant on a law school forum, but has nothing to do with my original questions. We are not discussing business school, it's law school admissions we are discussing.
Who are you responding to?
Second, it's not the difficulty of the undergraduate major which I discussed previously but rather the merit of the prestige of the school in relation to undergraduate vs. graduate studies. Your comments on what every applicant has (UG GPA, LSAT score) is definitely true.
No, but you discussed trying to see if you could leverage your graduate degree in the sciences at cornell for admission to a law school. The answer is still the same: your 1% will look phenomenal... so will half the class.
I'm asking whether it's worthwhile for students with non-traditional backgrounds to apply to law school if they have a potential career path in mind (in my case IP for biotechnology).
If that's your question, the answer is "Yes".
For example, you apply to medical school without clinical experience you will be rejected;
Patently untrue.
The decision is made almost entirely on MCAT and GPA. Don't buy into the idea that all the other admissions requirements play much of a role in any of these decisions. At best, they're tie-breakers.
you apply to PhD programs without research experience you will also be denied.
That may be true, expecially in some sciences.
However, how are law school admissions reflected by this?
I can only reiterate: law school admissions are based on LSAT and GPA. That's it. Yes, there are other factors and once in a while, they tip the scale, but again, they're tie-breakers at best. LSAT and GPA. That's what they're basing almost the entirety of the decision on.
If you are not competitive for admission to, say, University of Virginia based on LSAT and GPA, you won't be just because you got a Ph.D. at Harvard.
If you're on the bubble, at the point where they're deciding who to wait-list and who to admit, or deciding who to wait-list and who to decline, entirely, they might dig into the rest of your application a bit.
I don't know how to make it any more plain: the decision will be based on undergrad GPA and LSAT.