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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Adding an important point: US law schools do not care where one earned his or her undergraduate degree. Law schools care about one's undergraduate GPA, LSAT score, URM status, and--to a far lesser degree--an applicant's personal statement.[/quote]

True, but the hardest part of the LSAT to game, reading comprehension, is the one that tends to be easiest for people from rigorous academic environments.  You're absolutely right that a person with similar grades and similar scores is going to perform similarly (except perhaps at Yale where professors do a lot of the admitting directly).  But getting that all-important high LSAT score might be easier for a student who had a more academic undergrad experience.

(This is to say nothing of success in law school itself.  A lot of the top of the class at my law school went to either an Ivy or SLAC, but there could be confounding factors there, so I don't want to generalize too much from that observation.)[/quote]

And you’d be wrong.  The typical student at, say, Williams is already a good test taker.  There’s no evidence that a good LSAT score coming out of Williams has anything to do with the education that the school provided.  If you scored a 1500+ on the SAT and went to state U, you’re still very likely to do well on the LSAT.  [/quote]

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