<p>@TopTier, it seems that you have drawn some fallacious conclusions from that paper (as @ucbalumnus has pointed out, it says nothing about med schools & doctors or even whether it was harder for someone equally qualified to get in to a top tier law school from a less-than-prestigious undergrad). Frankly, your reasoning skills aren’t really what I would expect from someone who is a student of or alum of an elite school.</p>
<p>Since you’ve done some research, I would hope you’ve discovered that which med school you go to doesn’t correlate much with financial success of doctors later on (in a sense, you could say that almost all med schools are elite, given how few they admit), and while some of the top private med schools may be biased towards private elites, the publics are not.</p>
<p>With law schools (and MBA programs, for that matter), where you get your JD definitely does matter, but really only YLS and Stanford are elite enough and small enough that qualitative factors are a big factor. Outside those two, your LSAT, GPA, and race are bigger determinants than where you went for undergrad. Even HLS would be hard-pressed to turn down a state school grad who would be in their top quartile in both the LSAT and GPA.</p>