akuperma: Are you saying that even after getting into an elite law school, BTL’s will have a harder time getting “biglaw”? Because my BTL friends in elite schools are pretty much all in biglaw, including in very elite firms.
If you look around at the top firm’s websites, you’ll find plenty of “Beth Medrash Govoha” degrees, and the like.
Your information really is outdated. Big firms who come to interview at top schools look foremost at grades, then somewhat at personality and presenation. They almost never even ask where you went to undergrad unless you are trying to go into a science heavy field like patent law. And they certainly won’t ever look at any standardized test score–including the LSAT; by the time you are in law school, only law school grades count.