<p>Bad logic – misunderstanding of correlation and causation – demonstrated here by confidentialcoll and admissionsgeek.</p>
<p>That the top Ivies have the best law school placement doesn’t prove that going to a top Ivy gives you a significant advantage over ‘lesser’ schools. The most reasonable explanation for top undergrads’ success in top law school placement is that kids at the top undergrads have slightly higher LSAT scores than kids at slightly lesser schools.</p>