As someone with some personal knowledge in this area, I’d say you are both right. A decent education would help grades once in school. A higher GPA would help one get into a better school. The best is a high GPA from a decent undergrad. If you are incapable of pulling that off, you are generally incapable of excelling in law school. Additionally, while schools care about pure gpa numbers for usnews rankings, they know good and well how much the numbers mean. I think a school with a 25/75 gpa of 3.6/3.8 would easily prefer a 3.65 legit degree over a 3.79 btl. Those are my unsupported thoughts though.
