<p>It’s true that one needn’t attend HLS or YLS to get a prestigious clerkship, but the odds are better.</p>
<p><a href=“HTTP Error 404 - Page Not Found”>http://law.wlu.edu/admissions/ninemonthdata.asp</a>
It looks as if 6 of 130 students in the W&L class of 2012 received federal clerkships, or about 5 percent of the class. The percentage was about 10 percent in 2011 (11/129) and 2010 (13/123).</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.law.harvard.edu/current/careers/ocs/employment-statistics/index.html”>http://www.law.harvard.edu/current/careers/ocs/employment-statistics/index.html</a>
105 of 528 2012 HLS graduates received federal clerkships, or nearly 20 percent.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.law.yale.edu/studentlife/cdoprospectivestudents2012employstats.htm”>http://www.law.yale.edu/studentlife/cdoprospectivestudents2012employstats.htm</a>
77 of 222 2012 YLS graduates received federal clerkships, or almost 35 percent (wow).</p>
<p>This is a fun list: <a href=“Lists of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States - Wikipedia”>Lists of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States - Wikipedia;
It looks as if there were 4 W&L law grads who did SCOTUS clerkships between 1975 and 1993 (two for Justice Powell and 2 for Justice Rehnquist). None since, if the list is accurate. </p>