There are several premises made by the OP that seems weird and out of touch with reality.
- That HLS is better for reaching your goals than similar law schools.
- That the Ivies/Stanford/MIT/Duke are better for getting in to HLS than other Ivy-equivalents (including LACs) or even non-Ivy-equivalents.
@tk21769, BTW, Cornell ED admissions seems pretty idiosyncratic. As in, kids with worse stats get admitted over kids with better stats for reasons that are difficult to discern all the time.