Undergraduate Schools of J.D. Students Enrolled at Harvard Law School in 2005-2006 (this comes straight from the HLS website)</p>
<p>These undergraduate schools are represented by more than 30 students each at HLS - Brown (51), Columbia (44), Cornell (40), Dartmouth (31), Duke (55), Georgetown (33), Harvard (232), Princeton (65), Stanford (91), UCal-Berkeley (43), UCLA (41), Penn (53) and Yale (126). </p>
<p>Here is sampling of many other schools that are represented - Amherst (16), BC (3), CUNY (1), Colgate (1), Denison (1), Emory (14), FSU (2), GW (8), Howard (8), Michigan State (3), NYU (17), Ohio State (5), Pepperdine (1), Penn State (7), Rice (17), SUNY Binghamton (3), Syracuse (1), Temple (1), Texas A&M (1), TCU (1), Trinity (1), Tulane (3), U of Alabama (2), UCSB (3), UConn (1), U of Georgia (7). U of Maryland (6), UNC (13), Notre Dame (12), U of San Francisco (2), UVA (23), U of Wisconsin (5), Wake Forest (1), Washington and Lee (5), Wichita State (2), Williams (13). </p>
<p>Now, there are over 120 undergraduate schools that send students to HLS. I argue that where you go to school for your undergraduate degree matters, in this case, because it’s easier to get 1 of 91 spots that were given to Stanford students than 1 of 1 spots given to students from UConn. </p>
<p>Yes, I’ve made a lot of assumptions here. First, these are enrolled student numbers, but I’m assuming that they reflect to some degree the number of students from any particular undergraduate school who were admitted (this is Harvard Law, right?). Second, I’m generalizing Harvard’s admissions numbers to other top law schools. I base this both on my own assumptions and my real life experience in law school and as an employer recruiting on campus at top schools. Third, I have not taken size of undergraduate institution into account here (i.e. a bigger college will lead to more applicants and more “chances” for admission from a particular undergraduate school). That said, there are huge schools that don’t send very many students to HLS at all, despite their size. I’ve made other assumptions as well.