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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree or disagree?

Since undergrad is the new "high school" -- and graduate degrees are now expected, it doesn't matter as much where you go to undergrad.  It's your grad school that will open doors.

(FWIW, this is how it worked for me 25 yrs ago.  Went to big state U., did well on grad entrance exam, got into top 10 law school.  No one cares about undergrad.  It's the grad school name that people ask about.)[/quote]

There is certainly some truth in that.   But one of the secrets of the top schools (think Ivy, Duke, etc.) is that the average GPAs are really high (3.5+), which can make graduate school admission easier.  Those schools may justify it by saying they are all stellar students so they should get As, but there is no doubt many of those schools have had the highest grade inflation.  They also get recruited more by blue chip Wall Street and consulting firms.   So the upshot is the representation of students from top schools at many top graduate schools (e.g. Yale Law) is pretty high.

UVA Law publishes top undergraduate institutions in its entering classes and you can see some of that there (although it is much more democratic than Yale Law).  Among the state universities for the past couple of years UVA leads with 39 students, W&M (which is much smaller than UVA) had 22, Virginia Tech and VCU had 6, and the others didn't make the cutoff.  [/quote]

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