Does the undergraduate school matter?

dcfca
Tue, 27 Dec 2005 19:25:05 +0000

Only 1 person from the graduating 2005 Plan II class is attending law school at Harvard. It’s possible that there could be many Plan II alumni applying too, but I’d say that’s unlikely. A larger proportion of Plan II kids seem to set their sights on med school and it’s pretty unlikely for those kids to earn both an MD and JD.

The OP stated that his school has only sent 2 kids to Harvard out of 30,000 undergraduates. I was trying to say that my school has more undergraduates and has been able to put out a larger number.

From that website they say that only 13% of the class holds advance degress – so I’d say that shoots down Wildflower’s master’s degree point. As for holding careers, who knows how many were actually employed prior to HLS. Half of the class has been out of college for only 1-4 years. So it’s true that yes, these individuals could have been working.

The fact is, from what i’ve seen around here people say that Harvard is very numbers driven plus you need a little something special. I’d say that the ‘something special’ is something that isn’t exclusive to only certain schools and is more up to the individual and their willingness to work and achieve their goals.