I went to a top 25 law school and graduated at the top of my class. I experienced the same thing as you. They only consider T14, apparently.
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It is a surprisingly snobby profession. My first experience of this was I had been a nanny for two years for a big fancy lawyer before law school and when I was near the top of my class at the end of the first semester I reached out excited to come intern for her and she very politely told me that there is no way she could consider my resume, even though I helped raise her children hahaha!
This wasn't her fault btw, it was just her firm's policy.