<p>Do Harvard graduates have a slight edge over Yale in Biglaw employment opportunities due to the fact that Yale graduates prefer going into academia, clerkships, PI, etc. compared to Harvard graduates or is this edge nonexistent?</p>
<p>I apologize if there's been numerous threads on this before but I couldn't find any on the above the law forums concerning this exact issue. A concise answer is all I need.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p>No. Yale has an easier time than Harvard, though not terribly much. There are a lot fewer Yalies and it’s a more selective school, so the class tends to do pretty well. That Yalies may prefer to go other places doesn’t limit their employment opportunities; the only reason we care about the self-selection is that they could have gone to biglaw had they chosen.</p>
<p>Are you honestly in a position to get into both schools and choose between them based on their placement rates into BigLaw?</p>
<p>I’m with aires; getting into a top law school is a long, tough journey. You’ll need a top LSAT, very high GPA, etc. Once those have been attained and acceptances at both are in hand, I’d worry then about Biglaw jobs.
And as an undergraduate, you’ll need to keep in mind that the legal market is changing a lot very quickly(read: high paying jobs are getting tougher and tougher to get), so much so that by the time you apply to law school there may have been significant changes in the legal employment situation.</p>
<p>Focus on your studies so you can actually get in to one of them.</p>