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Nope. First of all, we’re not talking about graduate school in general, we are talking about law school specifically. Second, my point is that Yale has a much higher representation of Ivy League undergraduate in its law school than any other law school does, including other Ivy League law schools.  I am certainly not saying that other Ivy League law schools do not have significant representation of Ivy League undergraduates.

The original poster on this point asserted that up to 50% of top law school students have undergraduate degree from the Ivy League. That is not true in the case of any law school other than Yale. [/quote]

It's probably reasonably close at Harvard. They used to publish statistics of the number of kids from each undergraduate institution. Harvard was ~80 kids per class and there ~30 from YPS. The other ivies probably had 10-15 per class. In total, it could be about 40% of the class.

I wouldn't go to Tufts, Emory, or WUSTL over UVA for law school admission prospects though. The higher numbers of students from Ivies reflect test-taking aptitude and a larger percentage of students who want to go to a top law school. Law school admissions are largely GPA/LSAT driven and there are lots of students from public universities at the top law schools. There is a small GPA break for top schools, because a 3.8 at Harvard is considered more difficult than a 3.8 at Directional State, but between these schools any differences in how GPA is viewed will be pretty minor.

In short, the driving factors in this decision should be cost, size of school, location, and other cultural factors. Not law school admission prospects.[/quote]

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