Ingram Scholar at Vandy, UC Berkeley Regent's & Chancellor's or Yale

@Suzanne34, I also “do not believe that your undergraduate school is nearly as important as the law school”, so I don’t see why you need to “beg to differ”.

It’s a verifiable fact that prestige of one’s undergraduate school counts in law firm hiring; when I was in law school, a study came out showing that that criterion was the second most important one after law school grades, among students at my law school. There are more current studies showing similar facts now.

It’s my co-workers, not me, who showed a willingness to overlook a new hire’s law school (ranked maybe #100 or so at best) because the person went to HYPS for undergraduate and claimed a full scholarship at that law school. My co-workers insisted that he must be really sharp. I figured that his HYPS degree must be a fluke, but who knows.