Vandy Pre-law website has recently updated the top 5 feeder law school at which Vanderbilt C/O 2016 matriculated
https://admissions.vanderbilt.edu/major/Pre-Law.pdf
It is worth noting that Vanderbilt has consistently been one of the top feeder schools to UVA Law School. Since 2010, more than 40 Vanderbilt students have matriculated at UVA Law, not counting those Vandy grads who transferred there after 1L at a different law school.
They need to put more data in that, just saying…
@Otemachi that is interesting, but it used to have 1. georgetown, 2. Columbia, 3. Notre Dame 4. UPenn and 5. UT
Doesn’t have the 2 Ivys anymore!
@LvMyKids2 : Law School Placement data can be very complicated, so I wouldn’t worry about it. Those numbers reflect where students chose to go (and can afford. More wealthy admits of top schools can afford to attend) and not necessarily where they were admitted the most. It may also reflect where they applied, but we don’t know without more information. The Law School landscape has shifted for obvious reasons and it appears more students are opting to apply at less expensive schools. So when you see certain schools represented in a top 5 or 10 it may more so reflect where people at said school can afford to go (some schools will have more students who can afford their top choice place of admissions than others). The perceived risk of law school probably steers many admits of very top schools to other solid schools that offer substantial scholarships (like the undergraduate landscape but more severe). At places that provide more detailed data, this idea appears to hold some truth. There is also the trend of tons of law school admits (even to solid schools) that appear not to matriculate, at least not in the year in which the data was gathered. Basically Law School feeder data is not particularly informative without an idea of the amount of volume coming from a school, who and how many from said school are applying to where, what admissions bids are they getting, and are they taking their admissions bids (often there is a bit of shuffling, so the top 5-10 places where students are offered admission, even if great places, will often not be the same places they matriculate). Without this data this merely says: “several people got into these schools and they were also well liked, so many actually went”. Another school may have similar admissions stats, but students will prefer )for whatever reason. Again, maybe they were in scholarship territory) a slightly different set of schools (perhaps as indicated by numbers showing where they applied) so the end result looks different.
Also, again with the Ivy craze. Many of those super elite law schools are equivalent or better than those two. It will be okay.