Colleges & Universities That Are The Top Feeder Schools to the Top 14 Law Schools
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The Top 14 Law Schools out of approximately 196 ABA (American Bar Association) approved law schools are:
1)Yale Law School 2) Stanford Law School 3) Univ. of Chicago School of Law 4) Columbia Law School 4) Harvard Law School 6) NYU Law School 7) Univ. of Pennsylvania law school 8) Univ. of Virginia law school 9) Univ. of California at Berkeley law school 10) Michigan 11) Duke law school 12) Cornell law school 13) Northwestern law school 14) Georgetown Law The Top 14 law schools are the most elite law schools in the US and are considered by many to be the only national law schools as their graduates routinely are hired by the biggest law firms throughout the nation. Most major law firms ("biglaw") in the US pay on a lockstep pay scale during an associate's first 8 years : Year 1: Base salary = $215,000 plus expected end-of-year bonus = $20,000 = Total of $235,000 Year 2 : $225,000 plus $30,000 bonus = $255,000 Year 3 : $250,000 base plus $57,500 bonus = $307,500 Year 4 : $295,000 plus $75,000 = $370,000 Year 5 : $345,000 plus $90,000 = $435,000 Year 6 : $370,000 plus $105,000 = $475,000 Year 7 : $400,000 plus $115,000 = $515,000 Year 8 : $415,000 plus $115,000 = $530,000 Biglaw firms hire mostly from the Top 14 law schools. Most remain in biglaw for just 4 or 5 years due to burnout. Biglaw associates are expected to bill around 2,000 hours per year in order to receive the year end bonus. The Top Feeder Schools To The Top 14 Law Schools are: 1) UC-Berkeley 2) Cornell 3) Harvard 4) Yale 5) Michigan 6) U Penn 7) UCLA 8) Columbia 9) Georgetown 10) Duke 11) U Chicago 12) Princeton 13) Virginia 14) NYU 15) Stanford 16) Northwestern 17) USC 18) WashUStL 19) U Florida 20) Brown 21) Texas 22) Vanderbilt 23) Maryland 24) Boston College 25) Emory 26) Notre Dame 27) Dartmouth College 28) GWU 29) UC-San Diego 30) UNC All of the above listed 30 schools are all National Universities. When the Top Feeder list is adjusted based on undergraduate enrollment numbers, the top 30 feeder schools than include 11 SLACs. |
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The Top Feeder Schools To The Top 14 Law Schools When Adjusted for Undergraduate Enrollment:
1) Yale 2) Princeton 3) Amherst College 4) Harvard 5) U Chicago 6) Duke 7) Columbia 8) Georgetown 9) Pomona College 10) Yeshiva 11) Stanford 12) Claremont McKenna College 13) Swarthmore College 14) Barnard College 15) Dartmouth College 16) U Penn 17) Cornell 18) Northwestern 19) Williams College 20) Wesleyan University 21) Rice 22) WashUStL 23) Brown 24) Vanderbilt 25) Bowdoin College 26) Wash & Lee 27) Tufts 28) Brandeis 29) Colgate University 30) Bryn Mawr College |
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Therefore, those seeking to earn an undergraduate degree at an SLAC prior to attending law school should consider Amherst, Pomona, Claremont McKenna, swarthmore, Barnard, Williams, Wesleyan, Bowdoin, Wash & Lee, Colgate, and Bryn Mawr if qualified and affordable.
While the above 11 SLACs have a strong track record of placing students into the Top 14 law schools, any affordable undergraduate school is fine so long as the student earns a high GPA and scores well on the LSAT (law school admission test) as undergraduate school attended is not typically a factor that law schools consider during the admissions review process. |
Anonymous
This. And even T14 doesn’t matter that much in the long term. I am equity partner at a AmLaw 50 firm, and the vast majority of my partners are from outside that group. None of the very highest paid ones are. T14 matters more if you want to slave away at Cravath or Wachtell, where your probability of making equity partner (or even staying more than 3 or 4 years) are incredibly small. |
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+1 |
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| It doesn’t really matter where you to go to college for the top law schools, grades and lsat scores are all they care about. The top law schools accept students for a wide range of schools. |
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Another adjusted list based on undergraduate enrollment enrollment. When you’re in the top schools, absolute numbers matter. |
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Correct |
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It also isn't surprising that undergraduate institutions that select for high standardized test scores would have more students who do well on standardized tests. It will be interesting to see if that changes over time now that the top undergraduate schools have a significant % of the student body that were admitted test optional. |
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If that is the case why are the number of students in the T14 from Ivy League and similar undergraduate schools (inclusive of certain SLACs). Riddle me this? I went to a top 60 undergrad and top 50 law school and made it to big firms but eventually left. |
Anonymous
So what is the point of your post? First it seems like you're trying to convince us that certain schools matter more than others for getting into top law schools, then you state that it does not. I agree with the latter, but am confused as to why you went to such great lengths to get there. |
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Oh please. You’re implying that the students at these schools are somehow inherently a “cut above” the riff raff at others. Not so. All of these top colleges could fill their entire cohorts from the pool of applicants who didn’t get into ANY of them, and their average SAT/ACT would not be affected. That’s how many qualified applicants they get. Also, there is only very weak correlation between SAT performance and LSAT performance. It’s also not true that most big law firms only recruit from T14 law schools. Boston, NYC, Philly and DC Biglaw are all full of partners from Vanderbilt, BC, GWU, Florida, Notre Dame, Emory, etc. White shoe firms in NYC may recruit mostly from T14, but that’s not representative of BigLaw as a whole. |
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If a law student wants biglaw immediately after finishing law school (and the prior summer as a law clerk), the odds are dramatically better from Top 14 law schools than from "Vanderbilt, BC, GWU, Florida, Notre Dame, Emory, etc.". There are actual numbers that prove this, but I am not going to spend time now researching law school placements and biglaw firm listings of associates educational background. Yes, biglaw does hire from many non-T14 law schools, but the numbers are insignificant compared to T-14 law school grads hiring. Class rank and grades are important in biglaw recruiting in addition to school attended. Major law firms go much deeper in each class at T-14 law schools for recruiting new hires. Yes, if one finishes highly ranked--top 10% or top 5%--in a non-Top 14 Tier One law school, then that person may get an interview with some major biglaw firms. A federal judicial clerkship often gives one's resume a very significant boost. It is about playing the odds to a certain extent. Attending a Tier One (top 50 ranked law school) law school not in the Top 14, can drastically lower the chances for employment in biglaw immediately after graduating law school. |
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I am sharing information. Some may find it useful, while others may choose to disregard it. |
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OP here. Yes, this is correct. But the facts are what they are. May be useful to some, may not be important to others. |