1. Sorry Harvard: Your influence is overrated. So your dream is to be a hotshot Big Law partner one day. Where, oh, where should you go to law school to fulfill that lofty goal? On the basis of sheer numbers, Harvard Law School is the logical choice (in 2011, Harvard grads represented the largest number of new partners in Big Law).

But consider this latest news flash: Harvard’s preeminence might be exaggerated.