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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Retired (praise Jesus) Biglaw (ugh) lawyer here

There is no way in hell that I'd recommend a kid or family going into debt to attend Bates over Wooster to increase the chance of T14 admissions.  In fact, I wouldn't recommend going into debt to attend any college with the goal of goal to law school.  No way.

Law school admissions are based almost entirely on GPA and LSAT, even at the so-called T14 level.  Yale might be somewhat of an exception, because it's so small and so selective, but I wouldn't select a college based on the probability of getting admitted to Yale Law.

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Interesting that you mention Yale, because they actually share the undergraduate schools of their law students:

https://law.yale.edu/admissions-financial-aid/jd-admissions/profiles-statistics/undergraduate-institutions-represented-yls-2020-24

Apparently it doesn't matter much there, as well.

The site below also shows where recent hires at Skadden Arps went for undergrad:

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/law/

Doesn't appear to matter to top law firms, either.[/quote]

I never said it matters to law firms at all -- at law firms all that matters is the law school.

I also never said that Yale doesn't admit anyone who didn't attend a top college.  I merely said it was "somewhat" of any exception.  Yes, I'm aware of their published list for the last five years, but the list doesn't say how many students from each school was actually admitted and are attending.  If you really have time, click on the Skadden website and read the bios of the Yale Law grads who work there.  You'll see that the overwhelming majority went to elite colleges.  [/quote]

That list is about 180 schools. In five years, Yale had about 1000 students enroll. All this shows is that where you attend college is not a bar to entry, but without more data, it's impossible to say whether it is comparatively easier to get accepted at Yale if you're applying from certain schools rather than others. So you can't say that it doesn't matter.[/quote]

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