<p>My DD is High School Senior this year and we have started searching for collages for fall 2013 .
We live in MO and one reasonable choice in MISSOU , Columbia MO.
Her aim is to get in T14 law school after her undergrad studies.
So we also looking at other choices like U of Illinois - Urbana . This is much better U than MISSOU.
But the out of state fees there, is 3 time as MISSOU and also there are other expenses.
So my question is , to get in T14 law schools, does it really matters , if she come from top undergrad school like U of I -Urbana rather than MISSOU.?.
How mush importance they give , where you did the undergrad school?
In my case what will be best choice?</p>
<p>It’s surprising, but it doesn’t seem to matter much …something I’m learning more and more about. As long as you have a good GPA and high LSATs, then undergrad name reputation won’t matter much. </p>
<p>However, if a person ends up not choosing law school (people do change their minds), then a “better” name school will help with other jobs (assuming he/she does decently well). …A person coming out of NYU or Harvard…or Univ. Illinois-Urbana Champaign will be thought of usually more highly than the person from Cal State Long Beach. And the networking is often better at the better schools…your peers will often have better/more opportunities at better schools and hence they’ll be able to “hook you up” more easily at these better places more often. </p>
<p>But there are many other factors to consider too…these are just tip of the iceberg. :)</p>
<p>I’ll speak from my experience at Duke Law here.</p>
<p>There are some schools where Duke will take a number of students,
Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, Duke, Penn, etc.</p>
<p>There are other schools where Duke won’t let in that many people. These are schools like the ones you mention. I was the only student from Penn State at Duke that year. One of my classmates and I were essentially aiming for the same slot. He got a 164 on the LSAT and I got a 168. I got in and he didn’t, so he wasn’t able to go to a T14.</p>
<p>So, the question is whether you can get the highest LSAT of all of the potential law students from these colleges for the specific T14 school and a high GPA.</p>
<p>You may want to research how many people apply to the T14 law schools from the schools you were looking at and how many get in.</p>
<p>HOWEVER - With the current state of the legal economy, you really want to go to HYS rather than the T14 to be assured of actually getting the kind of job that will pay back your debt.</p>
<p>In my experience, this is not only true for law schools, but also for med/grad schools. Top programs always open their doors to “top” applicants from any universities. In practice, however, one can easily find put that the majority, and sometimes overwhelming majority, of the students in top programs come from top/known undergraduate institutions.</p>