I got into UT Austin Honors and UC Berkeley for undergrad and I’m leaning towards UT now (it is way cheaper for me bc I’m in-state). Would going to UT provide a significant disadvantage for getting into a top-14 law school?
Choose UT. It’s an amazing school.
This thread might help:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/law-school/1797545-does-where-you-go-for-undergrad-matter-to-law-schools.html
Law school admission is mostly about LSAT and college GPA.
Here are grade distributions by course at each school:
http://utcatalyst.org/grade-distributions
https://www.berkeleytime.com/grades
Unless there is a very large difference in grade inflation for the courses you are likely to take (adjusting for any differences in the academic strength of the students), save your money for law school. Even if there is a very large difference in grade inflation in favor of the more expensive school, it may still not be worth the eventual amount of added debt you will end up after law school.
UT and Berkeley are both great schools. If you don’t get into Harvard from either one of them it won’t be the schools fault. Both also have great law schools, of approximately the same caliber in the top 15.
There are only two questions: one is about money, (Texas is cheaper) and the second is, “where to you want to live when you graduate law school?” If you want to live in Texas, stay in Texas. If you are wealthy, stay in Texas. If you want to live in California and can pay for it, go to Berkeley.
If you want to work in big law in NYC, either undergrad will work, but you would do better to go to a law school in NYC or Harvard/Yale, etc.
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