<p>That’s nice, but the study in question is way weighted to New York, and a little to Chicago. If you look at the data, too, Harvard had the largest absolute number of graduates in the elite firms identified (the definition of “elite” being large, famous, and having a search engine on its website that permitted the author to search by law school), but it also had the largest divisor. The study didn’t take into account things like the Justice Department, law school faculties, and judicial clerkships, where Harvard and Yale basically eat everyone’s lunch. The study also implicitly assumes that what everyone most wants to do is to do corporate work at a megafirm for megabucks – something that is probably a lot more true at Columbia than anyplace else, but which really isn’t very true anywhere.</p>