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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to an Ivy.  I came from a lower middle class background and bad high school; college was so hard and depressing, as I was so unprepared and had to make up for 12 years of subpar education in less than 4.

[b]If I have gone to law school, I very well could have gone to some low ranked school, and I likely would have no idea that it mattered or that it was a bad idea. My mom would have been thrilled, an attorney in the family! It wasn’t like my classmates and I talked about BigLaw incomes vs sht law or what not. We chased girls and drank beer and crammed for tests. A lawyer was a lawyer as I knew.[/b] [/quote]

What kind of Ivy did you go to where no one ever worried about getting into the most prestigious law/ other grad schools?? Because I went to a school that is not an Ivy, but still in the top 25, and we were ALL very much aware that law school ranking matters A LOT in terms of employment options. I felt like most people were aiming for the law school at our university, or somewhere ranked higher than that. Going to a law school that was ranked lower than the (T14) law school at my undergrad university was widely considered to be a disappointment.[/quote]

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