Does it matter where I attend undergrad if I am looking to pursue Ivy League law?

Question

State school....HBCU.....Does it really matter where I attend if I have hopes of Ivy League?

Answer 1

Not at all. The top 10-14 law schools weight GPA and LSAT scores most heavily when comparing applicants.

Also, keep in mind that when it comes to law, "Ivy League" doesn't necessarily mean that the school is the best regarded in the country. Cornell is an Ivy League school, but its law school isn't even in the top 10. There are several non-Ivies that outrank it.

Answer 2

If you go to a less prestigious university with less rigorous courses, then you might find it harder to be admitted to an Ivy League law school than you would if you went to a very prestigious, very rigorous school. Obviously, the top law schools (which are not all Ivy League schools - e.g. Stanford, NYU, and Chicago are all very highly ranked) do take some students from state schools and HBCUs.

Answer 3

Yes -- it absolutely does matter. Don't let anyone else tell you otherwise.

The top schools will take a few students from schools that are not prestigious -- but for those people, everything else has to be perfect -- everything.

If you go to a top tier private university or one of the better public universities, then your chances of getting into a great professional school will increase.

I've attended two top professional schools (business schools at Duke and Berkeley) and taught at Wharton and MIT's Sloan School. There were a few students who went to schools like Southeastern Michigan -- but very few. On the other hand, there were LOTS of students who did their undergraduate work at Ivy League schools, schools like Duke, Rice, Northwestern, Emory or the better state universities (Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, Penn State, Minnesota, Maryland), etc.

As for Black students -- about half the blacks in my Duke MBA class went to HBCUs and half went to schools like those mentioned above (or one of the military academies). In my opinion, the ones who went to the HBCUs were not as well qualified as those who went to non-HBCU schools (with the exception of those who went to Howard or Morehouse).

As a side note, a couple of my MIT students told me that they felt they had a better chance of getting into Yale Law than students from Harvard -- because so few MIT students apply, while lots of Harvard students do. This may be true.

Answer 4

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