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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eh, not all schools are equal.

A top honors degree from third rate undergrad may not get you into prestigious graduate school, especially if their programs suck in your field of interest.[/quote]
There's a lot to be said for being the big fish in a small pond.  I ended up at a third rate undergrad for financial reasons and had no problem getting into a top grad school and top law school.  Leaving undergrad I had tons of awards, glowing recommendations, and perfect grades.  I don't know that my application would have been as stellar from a more competitive school.[/quote]

How many other kids from your undergrad were at your top law school with you?  How many of your law school classmates graduated from the undergrad of your law school?[/quote]

Congrats to PP for threading the needle and getting into top law school the harder way. We have a very close relative at Yale law. They went to a different ivy for undergraduate. Over half of the YL entering class each year is from the same 20 or so elite undergrads. Most of the rest are from T25-40 types/6-15 ranked LACs. There are almost no students from colleges below the top100 and these students are either hooked demographics or truly genius. [/quote]
Yale lists the 86 undergrad institutions that are represented at Yale Law School on their website.  You'll see lots of non-prestigious schools listed, from Northern Arizona University to Florida International University to Southern Utah University.

[url]https://law.yale.edu/admissions/profiles-statistics[/url][/quote]

That's 86 out of 204 students. 90 are from Yale, 30 odd from Harvard. Magically, that leaves your 84-odd figure because Yale, like Harvard, cherry picks the valedictorians from those other schools. That's how I got into both Harvard and Yale law schools. Both institutions brag these figures because to the unknowing it makes the schools appear less elitist. Fully one-third of my HLS class (560) were from Harvard undergrad ergo 185.[/quote]

THIS. Med school is similar.[/quote]

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