<p>In my opinion, an applicant most likely does not receive a significant (if any) boost in law school admissions simply because that applicant went to the same school as an undergrad, especially when you are talking about top law schools. </p>
<p>I think that you do find that many students from a particular undergrad continue on to study law at the same school for several reasons, including simple comfort level with the city, the school, friendships, environment, etc. It also makes sense that students who had solid high school GPAs, good SAT scores and other qualifications sufficient to get into a well respected undergrad program (and most top law schools are located at universities that have well respected undergrad programs) would also have the qualifications to get into a top law school. In fact, since there are only so many top law schools out there (only 14 of them, if you take to heart most of what is suggested on this board), it makes sense that you would find a disproportionate number of “same school students” continuing on to law school where they went to undergrad. </p>
<p>Anecdotally, my class at Penn Law was comprised of just under 10% Penn grads, 10% Cornell grads, 10% Harvard grads and 5% Michigan grads. The significant percentage of the rest of the student body came from the schools you would expect (e.g. Yale, Georgetown, Columbia) with the rest coming from a variety of other schools (though, I believe, only one student from each of the “less expected” schools). I suppose you could ask, then, why did so many Cornell, Harvard and Michigan grads choose to go to school at Penn? Did the admissions folks somehow favor them in the application process? I also know many Penn Wharton and College grads who went to law school at many other places, including both T14 law schools and other law schools such as Brooklyn, Catholic, Fordham, Minnesota, BU, BC, Hastings, Iowa, UNLV, Capital and George Mason. </p>
<p>At the end of the day, most students who graduate from a particular undergraduate school will not get into the associated T14 law school, and may not get into a Tier I or Tier II law school at all. Nothing is guaranteed in law school admissions.</p>