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[quote=Anonymous]The answer to this question is simple and I can't believe people are making it hard.  If the grades and major are equivalent from these two schools, then there will be no difference in outcome for applications to out of state law schools. Your student should go to the school where they will do best or that is cheaper or any other metric other than which one is best for law school.

There are many paths to law school and elite law schools, including through community college.  Some paths are better or easier than others, but grades, LSAT and experience are going to do 95% of the heavy lifting.

I'm willing to bet that a community college / state directional school graduate will fare better with law school admissions at all of the law schools than an Amherst graduate if they have similar grades, major and LSAT scores.

There is no secret sauce being added in college to get one admitted to law school. The reason that elite colleges matriculate more students to T14 law schools is that the best students go to those schools to begin with.

If all of the best students decided to go to Old Dominion University instead of Harvard for undergrad, then ODU would start placing the most graduates in the top law schools.[/quote]

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