<p>Hey,</p>
<p>If I want to attend law school at Harvard, for instance, is it better if go to Undergraduate school there?</p>
<p>Also, if i go to undergraduate school in a not-so big name school (UT Austin for example(, will Harvard see that as bad?</p>
<p>Last question: Do Law schools care about high school transcripts, GPA or SAT/ACT? </p>
<p>Any help would be VERY appreciated! :)</p>
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<li>It matters very, very slightly.</li>
<li>UT-A is just fine. You can get into any law school in the nation from it. </li>
<li>No.</li>
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<p>HLS doesn’t care (though Harvard undergrads on the borderline get a slight boost). Very rarely do law schools (UChicago being one) care about the prestige of your undergrad.</p>
<p>Depending on how well you do in college, there are some colleges where you can have a real advantage for admission into their law school. Two I am aware of are Michigan and Illinois but it applies only to those who have very hiugh GPAs in college and even then a small number will be chosen. For each, if you are an undergrad with a very high GPA, you can be granted admission to the law school without taking the LSAT (and you are informed that you will be admitted at end of your junior year in college so you can avoid taking the LSAT if you want). However, they take only about 10 to 12 students that way.</p>
<p>At some others, such as IIT and its Kent college of law, you can actually apply as a college freshman for its combined 3 and 3 college and law school program and if admitted, you attend college for three years and as long as grades are high enough you then can attend its law school with your law school courses also counting toward completion of your undergrad degree.</p>
<p>Other than the above type of programs, attending a college might help some (T14s seem to admit many from their own undergraduate schools) although at many it does not help any.</p>