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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don’t know a very representative sample. The majority of Harvard Law’s class comes from top 20 undergrads, top LACs, top tier publics (UCs, etc) and a handful of other schools that are well known (byu, etc). [/quote]

+1. I went to HLS, granted a million years ago, and was surprised by how many had graduated from Harvard itself ("the college"), other Ivies, and top schools in general. There was no one else from my college, and I was definitely odd man out, an outlier, however you want to put it. My experience just wasn't what OP is saying. I worked for BigLaw and it was the same story, although I think that's changing a bit with DEI initiatives to hire from HBCUs. [/quote]

It’s still the same way, and I think realistically the dei initiatives in biglaw aren’t really widening the net to bunches of directional state school undergrads or anything like that…with hbcu recruiting the top biglaw firms are taking the top 10% of the class at Howard Law School, the top HBCU law school, and those kids likely went somewhere “well-known” for undergrad anyway (a top tier undergrad or a [b]top[/b] hbcu like morehouse/[b]spelman[/b]).[/quote]

Ahh yes where the average SAT is a 1250 and it has a 50% acceptance rate. If someone from a different university with that same academic profile applied to an Ivy League law school, they’d be laughed at.[/quote]

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