<p>one more thing, possibly contradictory to my previous post.</p>
<p>I think that if you go from Harvard UG to a less-selective law school (and all but a very few law schools are less selective than Harvard) it makes you look like an underachiever and if you go to a state school then move up in selectivity for law school it makes you look like a hard worker. I’d rather hire the University of Maryland undergrad who went to Stanford Law than a Stanford undergrad who went to the University of Maryland’s law school.</p>
<p>Of course, you have essentially no chance of predicting whether you will get into a selective law school at this point, or if you will even want to go to law school when you graduate. So pick the undergraduate school that will open more doors for you upon graduation, however you define those doors…alumni network (in the world? in the field/region you want to live in?), strength/variety of majors, level of debt, opportunity to take electives v. required courses, ease of making lifelong friends, etc.</p>