USA: Sind gute Noten doch wichtiger als Uni-Prestige?

Eine neue Studie (PDF-Download) scheint den Bruch mit einigen liebgewonnenen "Gewissheiten" der US-Ausbildungskultur nahezulegen: It’s advice that’s been passed down through the ages, from generation to generation. Law is a profession that trades, the thinking goes, on prestige. Clients like prestigious names like Wachtell and Cravath; the wealthiest firms like names like Harvard, Yale and Chicago. Get into one of those schools, and up go your chances of going to a big firm, kicking tail, making partner and grabbing that brass ring. [...] But is it true? In a new paper, UCLA law professor Richard Sander and Brooklyn law professor Jane Yakowitz argue no. “Eliteness” of the school you attended matters much less, they found, than your GPA. The work is part of a continuing effort to examine preferences and law school, specifically, whether affirmative action actually hurts those it’s most sup…