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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Clearly, an ivy IS worth it though I think and probably any other top ten if not ivy.  But Probably not Emory, Tufts, or Wash U.  What about over William and Mary though?  They are ranked a fair bit higher than W&M.  Clearly, not more than UVA.  [/quote]

Emory, Tufts, WashU vs. W&M in state?  I don't think there would really be any outcome advantage for Emory, Tufts WashU over W&M.  OP was interested in law admissions.  Law schools in my view are interested in stats (LSAT and GPA) and school reputation is probably the tie breaker at the most selective (Harvard, Yale), but the preference there is bestowed largely among the top (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, etc.), but diminishing rapidly.  The same applies for medical school.  W&M graduates have essentially the same LSAT and GPA scores as Emory and UVA grads.  WashU and Tufts have higher LSATs, but that would be predictable because they have somewhat higher SATs coming in (and for top law schools you should be looking at 75th percentile SAT).  WashU and Tufts grads on average may have some advantage due to that somewhat higher LSAT score, but I don't think an applicant from any of these schools would have very different odds if they had the same stats.   A Harvard grad probably would, though (although the application reviewer would probably think they had a bad day on the LSAT).

Prestige matters more in some areas.  If you want to get a prime spot on Wall Street for instance, they will recruit from select business schools, but they will recruit outside of business schools at top schools like Ivy.  They don't do that elsewhere.[/quote]

Not true! Vandy and Duke say hello. They recruit outside the business school when the undergrad does not have a business school, like the aforementioned. [/quote]

"Like Ivy" wasn't confined to just Ivy.  I just know that when I worked in business consulting, there tended to be more liberal arts and sciences students from schools like Princeton than from elsewhere.  [/quote]
Duke is like Ivy Vandy is not unless we include Cornell. But is that's the case, Emory, WashU are also like Ivy. Tufts also doesn't have an undergraduate business school and has good placement in IB. [/quote]

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