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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the legal field, the prestige of your law school is what matters, not undergrad. And going to a fancy undergrad doesn’t give you an admissions boost for law school except maybe on the very edges. It’s all LSAT and GPA. In fact for someone targeting a T14 law school it might be a better strategy to go to a state school for undergrad if you can do better there (less competition). [/quote]

Everyone gives this advice, but I have never seen anything that supports it...at all.  Yale law school is 70% kids from just 20 undergraduate schools (all top schools), and then 30% come from 150+ other schools (i.e., 1 kid from each school).

The #1 feeder to any T14 school by far, is the undergraduate school.  So, Harvard undergrad has the most kids at Harvard law, same for Northwestern, same for UVA.

I wish someone could show a link to an analysis or really anything to support the position that law school is only GPA and LSAT.[/quote]

Yale law school is most likely like this because the kids who have the drive, connections and money (all pre-undergrad) got into a T20 school for undergrad and are continuing their dream at a top law school. But most likely the fact that kids who had the money for T20 schools and grew up in privilege continue to strive for "top professional schools" and also have the finances to attend them.    The kids attending any T20 law school are all kids who had the resume for a T20 undergrad school, those that didn't attend most likely didn't for finances or just because it wasn't on their radar to even try to attend a T20 school (too poor, first in family to attend college, etc).  But those kids most definately could have attended a T20 undergrad.

Basically, it's what you do in undergrad, not where you went.  Of course majority at T20 schools will drive towards elite grad school programs and the like---they've grown up influenced by this and can afford it
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