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[quote=Anonymous][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]
The list does not include the numbers from each school. And aside from the rabbinical school and a tiny handful of small colleges on the list, I’ve heard of them all. OP either knows 2 people from HLS who happened to go to one of the few random colleges on the list, or she doesn’t know much about colleges at all. Looking at that list, I’ve also heard of all the foreign universities. It’s not a completely random list like some PPs are suggesting. And I’d bet that if HLS listed the number of student from each college over a five-year period, you’d definitely see a pattern that favors top-50 undergraduate schools.

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][/quote]

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