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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It doesn’t matter.

Maybe if you’re going for a Wall Street job it will be easier. Or top-tier consulting. That’s about it.

If you want to go to law school or medical school go to the easiest school we’re getting the best grades as possible.

I say this with two kids at T15.[/quote]

This is solid advice for law school. Look at the list of schools from admitted students that Harvard Law shares. Seeing the variety of schools was an eye opener for me.

From the Harvard website:

The following is a list of the 146 undergraduate institutions represented by the 1L class in the J.D. program at HLS for the 2024–2025 school year.

American University

American University of Armenia

Amherst College

Arizona State University

Auburn University

Augustana University

Barnard College

Bates College

Baylor University

Boston College

Boston University

...
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University

Fordham University – Rose Hill

Fordham University – Lincoln Center

Fordham University – Gabelli School of Business

George Washington University

Georgetown University

Georgia Institute of Technology

Grand Valley State University

Grinnell College

Hamilton College

Hampden-Sydney College

Harvard College

Hillsdale College[/quote]

These lists are useless because law schools admit like 60%-70% from top 20 schools (and a ton from their own undergrad) and then 1 from each of like 100 schools.[/quote]

+ 1

Went to Harvard Law - there were like 10+ kids from Yale, Harvard, Princeton EACH in my class! It was eye-opening. [/quote]
If DC wants to do law and they get into one of the schools you mentioned, then yes, it'd make sense. But spending a fortune on Duke or such is meaningless.[/quote]

You are out of date. Duke has had 4-8 in each class the past couple of years go to each of the top 5 law schools, and more than half of all pre-law students there end up at T14. [/quote]

Sure they did, Duke booster.[/quote]

DP. my kid is there, it is consistent with data the prelaw advising there has... duke may not be as overrepresented as HYP at top5 law, but it is in the next handful of over-represented undergrad schools along w Stanford, Penn, Chicago, Columbia...[/quote]
Causation or correlation? If you have a ton of money, there is absolutely no downside to going to Duke. Above average DC with a good strategy would still have a pretty good shot at T5 law even if they went to a public flagship.[/quote]

[b]Get your hands on the UVa prelaw data. Very few UVA undergrads make it to top law considering the top25% of UVA undergrads are generally correlated to the top75% of ivies/Duke. [/b]
Elite schools offer a boost, not a huge one, but it is there. Put your head in the sand and pretend it is not true, but it is. Over half of ivy/elite students are on need based aid for the past 5 yrs or more. They are no longer a more wealthy cohort than UVA, which itself is much more wealthy than other publics. Well over half who apply from ivies/Duke/Stanford end up at T14. Less than 10% of uva students who apply end up at T14.[/quote]

This is not true if you actually compare top 25% at UVA to 75% at Duke.[/quote]

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