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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][mastodon][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is probably more about your familiarity with colleges than about Harvard law admissions. [/quote]
+1 OP, name the schools you’ve never heard of. DH is a HLS alum, and he went to Williams. His closest law school friends went to UNC, Michigan, Yale, Carleton, Swarthmore, and Harvard undergrad. All well known schools for those who are familiar with top colleges.[/quote]

Harvard law draws from about 174 different undergrads institutions.  Quite possible someone not familiar with all the schools on the list.  https://hls.harvard.edu/jdadmissions/apply-to-harvard-law-school/jdapplicants/hls-profile-and-facts/undergraduate-institutions/

Nor is this unique.  Look up any other elite law school and they will draw from around 100 colleges on up to the Harvard range, depending on size of the class.[/quote]

They have one person from the no name schools and dozens from Harvard and dozens from Yale though. [/quote]

Is that correlation or causation, though? Someone who attends a no name college is less likely than someone who goes to Yale or Harvard to have been a good standardized test taker. Are those top law schools taking those dozens of students from top undergraduate colleges *because* of where they went to undergrad, or because they got 179s on the LSAT?[/quote]

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