I’m in the legal profession (20+ years), and my thought is that undergraduate college prestige is a very small part of the law school admission process. For example, if a student from Harvard has a 3.8 GPA and another student has a 3.8 from a state flagship university, I can see the Harvard student having a slight advantage, assuming similar LSAT scores. But I think it’s minimal and that slight potential advantage would not be the reason to spend extra money to go to the Ivy League college. Besides, there are less than 10 law schools that have truly portable degrees, and the chance of getting into one of those schools is really low. So most students will end up at a regional or local law school, at which point admission is not as competitive although competing for scholarships would be.
I’ve been a lawyer for over 25 years and never has anyone asked me where I went to Undergrad. Save your money and spend it on a good law school.
Second @Gr8times comment. Graduate school prestige matters more than undergraduate school prestige.
Maybe, I am one that thinks its more impressive to have an undergrad degree from Harvard then a masters (MA) from Harvard.
That’s not an uncommon sentiment. I was having drinks with a group of MIT PhD students last year and one of them said of another “X is the really smart one [in the group] because she also went to MIT as an undergrad”
I think with Law, Medicine, Business and Phd the graduate degree is far more important. I’m not sure how much anyone respects anyone’s MA tbh and I say this as someone who has one.