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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Retired (praise Jesus) Biglaw (ugh) lawyer here

There is no way in hell that I'd recommend a kid or family going into debt to attend Bates over Wooster to increase the chance of T14 admissions.  In fact, I wouldn't recommend going into debt to attend any college with the goal of goal to law school.  No way.

Law school admissions are based almost entirely on GPA and LSAT, even at the so-called T14 level.  Yale might be somewhat of an exception, because it's so small and so selective, but I wouldn't select a college based on the probability of getting admitted to Yale Law.

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Nice PR - or PC - work there.

You are going to have to explain why the SCOTUS justices don't come out of mediocre schools. [/quote]

Clarence Thomas went to Holy Cross.  Not mediocre, but not top tier either.  Amy Coney Barrett went to Rhodes.  In any event, it's only a recent thing where all of the justices went to fancy schools (even if you want to call Notre Dame fancy).  In the 20th and 21st Centuries, one-third of Supreme Court justices did not attend top 25 law schools.  Warren Burger, who Nixon selected as Chiel Justice and who served on the Court until 1986, went to the William Mitchell College of Law.  Thurgood Marshall went to Howard.  Lewis Powell went to Washington & Lee.

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