<p>Should probably take this the the law school sub-forum, but here’s my uninformed guesses:
- Nobody is an “expert” on this simply because they got into a law school or their kid is thinking about it. One would either have to have conclusively analyzed a sufficiently comprehensive set of data, or be a law school admissions insider. IMO.
- My guess is many law schools probably do take undergrad school into account, to some small extent anyway. Why wouldn’t they take all available information into account? </p>
<p>It is a known fact that Boalt Hall used to do this explicitly, they had different add-ons for GPAs at different schools. But their add-ons got leaked to a California newspaper, after which they were forced to stop, due to some discrimination issue.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/oberlin-college/934935-toughest-schools-get.html?[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/oberlin-college/934935-toughest-schools-get.html?</a>
But what other, private schools do, who knows? Their procedures were not leaked, and they are private.</p>
<p>3) I think the major NY law firms do take the undergrad into account, to some small extent anyway. Why wouldn’t they take everything into account? Like Ibanks and consulting firms, these law firms have to impress Ivy-pedigreed clients in order to get their business. There are many snooty people at these firms, and they are involved in hiring. If you will look at attorney profiles at top firms you will see numerous top undergrad schools. Go look at Sullivan & Cromwell’s attorney profiles, they are on line.</p>
<p>I’m quite certain I had a shot at my IB job, when others at my MBA school didn’t, because I had an Ivy undergrad degree. Of course that isn’t a law firm, but I can well envision a comparable dynamic going on at one.</p>
<p>4) Arizona State has one of the most highly regarded Honors colleges, it could well be the case that a graduate from that program would be given the same “prestige points” as many good privates. If such points are there to be given.</p>
<p>5) From what I understand, University of Michigan has a great law school, and it is well recruited by wall street law firms. Grads of that program indeed interview for the same jobs that grads of many of the ivy law schools are interviewing for. We have two friends who are grads of that program who are both partners at top NY firms. They have Harvard law grads working for them, I believe. And they have counseled a recent grad we know to attend Michigan law school.</p>
<p>6) However, if you want to become a law professor it is an advantage to attend law school at Harvard, Yale, or Chicago.</p>