Full Ride HLS or no scholarship SLS Forum

[Mack.Hambleton]

Yale or bust

[chizzy]

going through OP's previous history, he does not sound like a flame and has a genuine interest for mentorship.

with that being said, OP please take harvard and dont look back. you are going to live a worry free life and really you cant go wrong in either schools. Their job prospects are both strong.

[MistakenGenius]

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[hcrimson2014]

In what scenario does someone get a full ride at H and no money at S? This didn't happen.

Maybe he has one of those last names in which someone has established a scholarship for in Harvard but not in Stanford.

Then he wouldn't be on TLS asking a bunch of randoms.

All those scholarships required was that you have the specific last name, it did not stipulate that OP must be from a certain family or bloodline. Let's be honest, Anthony Kennedy is not related to JFK yet he is still a Kennedy. OP could be someone bearing one of those grant names yet completely unrelated the people who established the grants. Even though I am Asian, I could probably change my last name legally to Braxendale to apply. Since the scholarship is managed by HLS and not the fund provider, there is a good chance that I could get the money if there were no other Braxendale this year.

[baloneydanza]

Go to Stanford and give me the money

[chizzy]

going through OP's previous history, he does not sound like a flame and has a genuine interest for mentorship.

with that being said, OP please take harvard and dont look back. you are going to live a worry free life and really you cant go wrong in either schools. Their job prospects are both strong.

Just because he hasn't flamed before doesn't mean he's not flaming now. That's basic LSAT logic.

OP, if you're serious, the only choice available to you is to retake and to ED UVA.

i dont understand, why should OP retake and ED when he/she has a full ride to harvard?

[Brettanomyces]

going through OP's previous history, he does not sound like a flame and has a genuine interest for mentorship.

with that being said, OP please take harvard and dont look back. you are going to live a worry free life and really you cant go wrong in either schools. Their job prospects are both strong.

Just because he hasn't flamed before doesn't mean he's not flaming now. That's basic LSAT logic.

OP, if you're serious, the only choice available to you is to retake and to ED UVA.

i dont understand, why should OP retake and ED when he/she has a full ride to harvard?

You don't understand sarcasm?

[chizzy]

going through OP's previous history, he does not sound like a flame and has a genuine interest for mentorship.

with that being said, OP please take harvard and dont look back. you are going to live a worry free life and really you cant go wrong in either schools. Their job prospects are both strong.

Just because he hasn't flamed before doesn't mean he's not flaming now. That's basic LSAT logic.

OP, if you're serious, the only choice available to you is to retake and to ED UVA.

i dont understand, why should OP retake and ED when he/she has a full ride to harvard?

You don't understand sarcasm?

noted.

[sonyvaio18]

hey everyone, i appreciate your thoughts. Everyone's responses confirm my thoughts that Harvard is the sensible choice. Haha, it was an honest question, and i guess the answer was so obvious that people thought i was flaming. to clarify, the fellowship is for students who are simultaneously doing a phd at harvard.

[ThinkNegative]

1) sounds like a flame b/c of lack of detail, but I have a friend who was given full ride at HLS via of one of those weird regionally targeted scholarships, but really wanted SLS and only took the full ride after much deliberation

2) as an SLS student, I tell OP same thing I told my buddy: take the money. With a full ride at one of HYS on one arm of the scale, there's nothing that either of the other 2 could possibly offer to outweigh. Three years will be gone before you know it and then you have the rest of your life in front of you.

[PDaddy]

Havaad!

[thestatusguo]

I got a fellowship at HLS, which covers law school tuition for 3 years. I feel incredibly lucky to get this, but people have informally told me that there is better mentorship, student culture, and placement into legal academia at SLS. The problem with this is that the benefits at SLS are not as quantifiable as the money from HLS. I'm leaning towards taking the money as a result, but I wanted to see what others might say about this predicament.

So SLS is an amazing through and through, but I do think that the HLS offer would be incredibly difficult to resist. Do you have an outside source of funding that would otherwise mitigate SLS or would this be entirely covered via loans/personal savings/etc? I think very few people would tell you to go with SLS here and I would agree.

[sonyvaio18]

Thanks Statusguo and Thinknegative!

Nope, no funds from SLS...