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[quote=Anonymous]Our law review (so-called main journal) over thirty years ago had people from a variety of schools. It was a top law school with very good employment outcomes.  About 60 percent of the law review were from the Ivy League, along with people like me from somewhat competitive (back then) schools (Duke).  There were grads from Penn State, Western Washington, WVU and BYU, but they were likely (no way of verifying) the "best" students in their class.  So frankly they could have gone anywhere and done well.  The Penn State guy for example was a top flight NCAA swimmer on scholarship, as was I on athletic scholarship for track.  The WVU guy was a national debate champion, and the BYU guy has a perfect LSAT score despite being legally blind. The Western Washington grad was again likely the "best student" there.  The sole Harvard guy on the law review edit board was the captain of the golf team (and easily the most socially adept of all of us).  A pretty eclectic bunch. I don't think anyone cared where you went to undergrad (as the BigLaw partner relates above) except that the experiences of some made them very interesting people.  The person first in our class (Notes editor) went to West Point, and her husband was a bona fide West Point boxing champ and she carried a photo of him in the ring! She was the most organized person I have ever met, and that peer experience was helpful to me. But you can with luck run across that anywhere. Another member of our editorial board went to a small Carroll College, and she was and remains incredibly competent, a Fortune 50 General Counsel.   Politically the editorial board skewed to the left but politics were not as divisive back then and frankly as a middle of the road type I admired my colleagues' intellectual ability and their varied backgrounds. We all respected each other, which I appreciated because i was a poor student from a single mother home without many social graces.   We did not have much diversity except for my one class ahead of me track colleague who was an All American from Cornell and who is today a law professor and a pre-eminent expert on the legal aspects of performance enhancing drug testing in sport worldwide.  Again, all kinds of backgrounds and schools - and all in general very bright and hard working people. Do well wherever you go, and become comfortable competing. [/quote]

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