<p>“So, you’ll see that places like Duke, Georgetown, and Princeton have historically outweighed many other institutions. (Harvard & Yale take the cake!)”</p>
<p>I went to a no name undergrad school and managed to go to a top 10 law school (but not Harvard). My class had a similar composition as PapaChicken’s list for HLS. Kids from all kinds of colleges (including my no name school) but with a heavy representation of kids from the usual suspect selective colleges. </p>
<p>Law school admissions is about selectivity – GPA and test scores. Undergrad admissions to highly selective colleges is also about…selectivity. </p>
<p>Ivy league schools are brimming with undergraduates who had the stuff (like outstanding standardized test taking skills) to get into the most selective colleges in the country. No surprise that that demographic of kids show up as over-represented in a very similar admissions selectivity rodeo held 4-6 years later.</p>
<p>Ivy League kids don’t get into HLS because they are Ivy graduates or what they learned while at their Ivy college. They tend to get admitted into HLS in large numbers due to the same characteristics that enabled them to get admitted into an Ivy college in the first place. Such students exist at all colleges, but there’s a higher percentage of them at Ivy-type colleges than elsewhere.</p>
<p>It’s more of a correlation relationship than a causation one.</p>