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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This website has lists of the undergraduate schools attended for people in 12 fields. Look at them and then tell us you think HR cares about the school attended more than the individual's qualifications.....

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/law/

While you're at it, on the same site a study by the Chronicle of Higher Ed is quoted that shows employers surveyed about what factors matter when hiring new graduates placed college prestige dead last.

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/page/5/
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Law firms particularly (other than, maybe, small ones where going to the same college as the partners could help) and other legal employers could care less where you got your undergrad degree.  But, I promise you they care about the name of your JD.  Many firms won't even hire outside the top tier (or only in very special circumstances).  So the first set is 100% useless.  Show me the same data about Skadden but this time with the law school rather than undergrad.  [/quote]

I think the point of showing the Skadden list was exactly what you're saying: law firms don't care where you get your undergrad degree, so what's the point in ranking undergraduate programs as OP requested and so many are happy to oblige?[/quote]

Skadden is a bad example.  it was started by outsiders who could not get jobs at white-shoe firms and always was less picky than many other firms.  Skadden does not focus on pedigree but many other top firms do.  
Skadden is to law firm like tech is to wall street. Just because tech big wigs wear hoodies (which they don't anymore) doesn't mean you can wear a hoodie to your Ibanking job.  You point is well taken but your example sucks.[/quote]

Name a few of those law firms that care about the undergraduate school attended.[/quote]

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