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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To my knowledge Law is the only profession where even 20 years out, one lawyer will ask another - where did you go to school? And they mean both undergrad and law. And I guess, hearing from legal friends, being able to say Cornell Yale is more prestigious than saying Wooster Yale. [/quote]

I'm a lawyer of this vintage and this is just not true. No one asks!

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Funny. People always check lawyers (and doctor's) before they are hired. They always show up on Google search. Only a no-named school grad insists they don't matter. [/quote]
Different PP. Law school matters. Undergrad does. not. matter. for law, as the attorneys in this thread have explained. I don't know why that's so hard for nonlawyers to believe.
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Lol, all the free legal advice you see on here are worth what you pay for. They are free for reason. Everyone's law school and undergrad school is visible because there's demand for those info. Undergrad matters  Yale and YLW or Yale and Yale Med school is different from the University of Phoenix and Western School of Law or the University of Phoenix and the U of Guadalupe Med school. [/quote]
Undergrad is visible simply because, as a degree, it's a natural part of the resume. But, BigLaw hiring partners don't care, sorry. You can attend University of Utah, HLS, and work at an elite firm. TCU and HLS. Lake Forest College and HLS. Santa Clara undergrad and Stanford law. Bradley University in Illinois and Northwestern. I know people with each of these combinations. No one cares about the undergrad; it is simply a triviality in their personal history, like where someone grew up.

But sure, if you want to pay for advice, go ask ANY law school admission consultant and they will tell you what matters, college GPA and LSAT. Not undergrad.[/quote]

If you need a life-threatening medical scenario, who would you choose?

University of Phoenix undergrad and the U of Guadalupe Med school.
or 
Yale and Yale Med school?

If you were charged with a serious crime and looking at 50+ years behind bars, who would you choose?

the University of Phoenix undergrad and Western School of Law
Yale and YLW?

And what's the chance of the University of Phoenix undergrad and YLS?  It happens and you might see it more with legitimate state schools and YLS - but they are not all that common because of the quality of the undergraduate school.  If you refuse to believe it, why don't we ever see an Anne Arundel Community College and YLS combo?

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Actually, faced this. Had open heart surgery when 45.  My cardiac surgeon went to Dartmouth and then Harvard Medical School. It was re-assuring but did not affect my decision.  I went there because he was at the best hospital in the World for cardiac surgery, Cleveland Clinic.  I know they do 3000 a year of these surgeries versus others that do 300 and have seen the hardest cases.  It would be like going to a top law firm when needed; I don’t care where they went to school but care they are at that firm e.g. Johnny Depp’s lawyer.  She had experience in cases of the nature needed.  I had a second heart surgery and the cardiologist went to foreign medical school and trained in Quebec. I didn’t care because he was at Cleveland Clinic.  So it’s the fact where they are employed not where they went. It is re-assuring but not critical.  [/quote]

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