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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eh, not all schools are equal.

A top honors degree from third rate undergrad may not get you into prestigious graduate school, especially if their programs suck in your field of interest.[/quote]
There's a lot to be said for being the big fish in a small pond.  I ended up at a third rate undergrad for financial reasons and had no problem getting into a top grad school and top law school.  Leaving undergrad I had tons of awards, glowing recommendations, and perfect grades.  I don't know that my application would have been as stellar from a more competitive school.[/quote]

How many other kids from your undergrad were at your top law school with you?  How many of your law school classmates graduated from the undergrad of your law school?[/quote]

Congrats to PP for threading the needle and getting into top law school the harder way. We have a very close relative at Yale law. They went to a different ivy for undergraduate. Over half of the YL entering class each year is from the same 20 or so elite undergrads. Most of the rest are from T25-40 types/6-15 ranked LACs. There are almost no students from colleges below the top100 and these students are either hooked demographics or truly genius. [/quote]
Yale lists the 86 undergrad institutions that are represented at Yale Law School on their website.  You'll see lots of non-prestigious schools listed, from Northern Arizona University to Florida International University to Southern Utah University.

[url]https://law.yale.edu/admissions/profiles-statistics[/url][/quote]

Yale used to list the number of Yale law students attending by their undergrad school.  The top 20 schools comprised 65% of the entire law school.  Yale undergrad was 20% of Yale law school.

Then there was one kid from all the remaining schools...though they listed more than 86 in total.[/quote]

ear after year, Yale Law School is ranked #1 in the US. (Harvard Law & Stanford Law School complete the top 3, followed by Chicago, Columbia, & NYU as the top 6 law schools in the USA.)

In 2019 (last year they tracked these stats..600 law students in total)), the undergraduate schools with the highest number of alumni then at Yale Law School were:

Yale--90 students enrolled in YLS
Harvard--59
Columbia--34
Princeton--31

Stanford--22
Dartmouth--21
Cornell--19
U Chicago--18
Brown--17
U Penn-16

UC-Berkeley--13
Georgetown--13
Duke--10

Northwestern--8
U Michigan--8
USC--8
U Virginia--7
Johns Hopkins--7

Among LACs:

Amherst--6
Swarthmore--6
Bowdoin--5
Barnard--4
Pomona--4
Wellesley--4
Williams--4

Looks like a good Top 25 list for humanities majors planning on attending law school.

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You listed UVA when no one else did - Booster! Sorry - wanted to be that guy once.[/quote]

UVA law is currently ranked #4 presently by USNWP - it's either tied or one above Harvard .... doesn't really matter, just sayin....[/quote]

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