@frumnotyeshivish
My post is not meant to be persuasive.
It is the observations of someone who has plied this trade for more than 35 years and made a substantial living doing it.
The poster I responded to did not use the word ‘ELITE” when posting, he wrote about Harvard. I responded about TOP New England Law Schools. I have never taught at Harvard, but my niece is a Law Professor there and we do talk about it. I have taught at Yale Law School (in my home town), as well as Boston University, Quinnipiac Law and UCONN Law. My children and spouses went to Columbia, Yale and Penn (my alma mater).
I have rec’d resumes and interview requests from many frum law grads looking for positions because they think working in a frum run firm would have its advantages, alas living and working in small town Connecticut has its drawbacks for frum young people.
While BTLs may have attended some ‘ELITE’ schools, chances are they were in the New York metro area. New England and Harvard are very conservative places. WASP anti-semitism is long entrenched in blueblood New England and even if not practiced openly it exists.
In 1970 while applying and interviewing for colleges I was told in three New England schools that the Jew Quota was closed, this at a time when the Civil Rights Act was the law of the land (unlike my eldest brother who was told that at Princeton in 1963 when discrimination was still legal). Yale was never so overt, they would tell us that the quota for ‘Townies’ (New Haven residents) was full and they wanted a diverse geographic mix. 90%+ of Townies who applied in the 60s-90s were Jewish. From the 20s-60s Yale would accept Townies but stick them in the Sheffield Scientific School, home of Jews and Catholics. WASPS tended to be in Yale College. When I attended PENN undergrad, the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce had a much larger Jewish percentage than the College or College for Women (The 3 main undergrad colleges in the University). Much of this has changed in the last 4+ decades, but change in New England comes extremely slowly.