Does undergraduate prestige matter

Calibearmomof2
Sun, 13 Feb 2022 06:37:00 +0000

Wanted to reiterate the point about work experience. I went to a very selective law school (not Boalt Hall/Berkeley or Georgetown—but I was admitted to Boalt). I was one of a minority of students (30-35%) who came straight from my undergraduate school. Other students had PhDs, masters. They’d had careers in journalism, business, or non-profits, they’d been in the Peace Corps, two were in the service. Anyone who went straight from college was from a “top” school—but they also had more than grades and test scores. The grades & test scores were just a prerequisite.
On the other hand, I’ve known any number of very successful lawyers who didn’t go to the top drawer law school. If you’re bright, hard working, and know what you want to do with the law degree, you will be fine. But much of what any lawyer does involves advising others, and life experience has helped more with that than any class I’ve ever taken.