HLS vs. YLS (some unique considerations) Forum

[Vursz]

Thanks TLS!

[manillabay]

[quote="Vursz"

Stats: 180/3.89, took LSAT once.[/quote]

Badass

[Gooner91]

[quote="Vursz"

Stats: 180/3.89, took LSAT once.

Badass[/quote]

Fluke, Retake.

[Straw_Mandible]

If this is a stupidly obvious decision, feel free to tell me so.

This is a stupidly obvious decision. Your "libertarian streak" is not a compelling reason to attend HLS over YLS. Enjoy Yale.

[buffalo_]

Yale.


Go to Yale.

You know who goes to Yale? No one. Because it's impossible to get into.

Go to Yale.

[twenty]

Your goals are pretty lofty, but you have the acceptances to go along with them. Yale for sure, and not just "because it's Yale." From Yale, even with no ties to the Bay Area, I doubt you'll have any difficulty getting into a top firm/top PI/govt organization up there.

[Cicero76]

I've never been presented with a good reason, apart from "I'm married to someone who works in Boston," to go to HLS over YLS. Fed Soc is exploding here, if it's that important to you you'll be fine.

And no way do the ideological compatibilities of HLS professors beat the insane statistical and institutional superiority of YLS when it comes to clerking.

[jbagelboy]

Yale. Especially for your goals. Don't worry about variety of profs/classes, YLS has more than enough variation, and every one of your profs will be the eminent scholar in that subject.

Take this for what it's worth: I would take Yale over any school, with only a small number of very specific exceptions.

[northwood]

Do you want letter grades , a big class and the stress of having an easy to decipher transcript? If so, go to HLS. Do you want a smaller class size, but the enjoyment of having your grades be HP, P, LP? ( which is harder to differentiate), If so, then go to YLS.

But really, both schools are fantastic- so congrats!

[aboutmydaylight]

Do you want letter grades , a big class and the stress of having an easy to decipher transcript? If so, go to HLS. Do you want a smaller class size, but the enjoyment of having your grades be HP, P, LP? ( which is harder to differentiate), If so, then go to YLS.

But really, both schools are fantastic- so congrats!

HLS doesn't do letter grades. OP, Yale is the easy choice.

[3L2014]

Who voted Harvard?

[jbagelboy]

Do you want letter grades , a big class and the stress of having an easy to decipher transcript? If so, go to HLS. Do you want a smaller class size, but the enjoyment of having your grades be HP, P, LP? ( which is harder to differentiate), If so, then go to YLS.

But really, both schools are fantastic- so congrats!

HLS doesn't do letter grades. OP, Yale is the easy choice.

DS is hella confusing tho

[Nelson]

Don't worry, libertarian douchebags are a pesky and disproportionately loud minority at every law school. All of that Fed Soc cash.

[LochnerMonster]

I've never been presented with a good reason, apart from "I'm married to someone who works in Boston," to go to HLS over YLS. Fed Soc is exploding here, if it's that important to you you'll be fine.

And no way do the ideological compatibilities of HLS professors beat the insane statistical and institutional superiority of YLS when it comes to clerking.

+1.

It is a very exciting time to be a conservative or a libertarian at YLS. There's been a huge renaissance of the Federalist Society chapter here. For whatever it's worth, our chapter won the Federalist Society award for best chapter this year.

I strongly encourage you, or any other libertarian/conservative admits reading this thread, to PM me.

[Ohiobumpkin]

Yale. Especially for your goals. Don't worry about variety of profs/classes, YLS has more than enough variation, and every one of your profs will be the eminent scholar in that subject.

Take this for what it's worth: I would take Yale over any school, with only a small number of very specific exceptions.

[Cicero76]

I've never been presented with a good reason, apart from "I'm married to someone who works in Boston," to go to HLS over YLS. Fed Soc is exploding here, if it's that important to you you'll be fine.

And no way do the ideological compatibilities of HLS professors beat the insane statistical and institutional superiority of YLS when it comes to clerking.

+1.

It is a very exciting time to be a conservative or a libertarian at YLS. There's been a huge renaissance of the Federalist Society chapter here. For whatever it's worth, our chapter won the Federalist Society award for best chapter this year.

I strongly encourage you, or any other libertarian/conservative admits reading this thread, to PM me.

LM here is literally A FAN OF LOCHNER. That's so libertarian I think our prof's had exploded. OP will be fine here.

[patogordo]

isn't yale basically the quintessential ivory tower? why wouldn't that be a perfect place for a libertarian?

[baloneydanza]

Don't worry, libertarian douchebags are a pesky and disproportionately loud minority at every law school. All of that Fed Soc cash.

lol

But yeah, Yale

[Theopliske8711]

I've never been presented with a good reason, apart from "I'm married to someone who works in Boston," to go to HLS over YLS. Fed Soc is exploding here, if it's that important to you you'll be fine.

And no way do the ideological compatibilities of HLS professors beat the insane statistical and institutional superiority of YLS when it comes to clerking.

+1.

It is a very exciting time to be a conservative or a libertarian at YLS. There's been a huge renaissance of the Federalist Society chapter here. For whatever it's worth, our chapter won the Federalist Society award for best chapter this year.

I strongly encourage you, or any other libertarian/conservative admits reading this thread, to PM me.

LM here is literally A FAN OF LOCHNER. That's so libertarian I think our prof's had exploded. OP will be fine here.

What's the gunner sit. like? Are Fed Soc people more likely to be gunners?

[sublime]

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[BillPackets]

OP did u go to hillsdale college ?

[Vursz]

OP did u go to hillsdale college ?

No, but you're close.

(In case anyone here was at the HLS ASW, it was a Hillsdale guy that was responsible for that "what is justice" question. I swear to God I'm not that oblivious. haha)

[Nelson]

It is a very exciting time to be a conservative or a libertarian at YLS. There's been a huge renaissance of the Federalist Society chapter here. For whatever it's worth, our chapter won the Federalist Society award for best chapter this year.

In a shocking development, members of the Federalist Society are just as much of a bunch of arbitrary prestige obsessed wankers as any other group of law students. I am disappointed. This selection clearly lacked rigor.

[patogordo]

tbf chicago would have won but their president didn't use his all-caps legal name in the nomination application, preventing joinder

[justinp]

PM me.