my cousin is a btl at colombia and he says that its hard there for the btls and all the mo guys (Modern Orthodox) look down at them because they know that they didnt really go to college. plus they think that most of the yeshivish guys in a good law school prob only got there by pulling some sort of shtick with their resume or transcript. and worst of all there are so many mo lawyers at the types of firms where columbia students interview that they all know that the btls are not serious
I don’t know about Columbia, but this is not the case at Harvard. I have heard that the BTL’s there brag about not having gone to college, and meanwhile win honors and awards.
I have a BTL friend at Columbia; I’ll ask him.