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Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:18 pm
by truckstop
Even after reading everyone else's decision posts, it's still hard to turn down an acceptance at Harvard off the wait list. Please indulge me and just remind me that I'm doing the right thing by sticking with a Dillard at UVA over probably nothing at Harvard.
COA:
UVA - ~$50,000 for living expenses/books/etc
Harvard - probably about $300,000 because I'm expecting no need-based aid (and I wouldn't get a financial aid package until after I committed)
How I'm paying for law school:
Loans, loans, loans
General career goals (emphasis on general):
Public interest/government. No interest in big law. I've started to really look at various DOJ positions and am also looking at DA jobs, but I also haven't completely let go of public defender ideas and I'm open to anything else that might pop up. Like for most others, there are unicorn jobs that sound really appealing, but they're not a guarantee even with Harvard.
I think I'd like to be in DC, but I'm also open to other cities.
GPA: 3.85
LSAT: 171 (taken once, clearly not taking again because I'm going somewhere in the fall)
3 years WE
Thanks in advance!
Re: Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:22 pm
by ManoftheHour
Retake, ED UVA
Re: Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:24 pm
by Mullens
Replace the two school names with Harvard and UVA as applicable.
Re: Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:24 pm
by Danger Zone
Do the right thing
Re: Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:26 pm
by NYSprague
You can't possibly be serious. This has to be some humble brag thing, right?
Re: Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:30 pm
by truckstop
ManoftheHour wrote:Retake, ED UVA
I can't tell if you're kidding or if you misunderstood what I wrote under COA. I'll hope for kidding.
NYSprague wrote:You can't possibly be serious.
I know it's completely ridiculous. I just need the reassurance before I say no to Harvard. It's harder to do than I expected before getting the call.
Edit: If I really wanted to humble brag, I'd do it on Facebook/wouldn't do it anonymously. I'm just actually stressed out and want to know that I'm doing the right thing.
Re: Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:31 pm
by ManoftheHour
I'm kidding. Bro, the answer is obvious. If it's not, look at the COA balance sheet from both schools from their financial aid portals. This is what you seriously will be borrowing to pay (with interest). That amount of 0s will make your eyes bleed.
Re: Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:31 pm
by jk148706
Dude
Re: Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:32 pm
by NYSprague
truckstop wrote:ManoftheHour wrote:Retake, ED UVA
I can't tell if you're kidding or if you misunderstood what I wrote under COA. I'll hope for kidding.
NYSprague wrote:You can't possibly be serious.
I know it's completely ridiculous. I just need the reassurance before I say no to Harvard. It's harder to do than I expected before getting the call.
If you go $300,000 in debt for Harvard you will regret it. Maybe not now, but soon, and for the rest of your life.
If it makes you feel better you can frame your acceptance letter and hang it next to your UVa diploma.
Re: Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:33 pm
by Danger Zone
I'd pick Harvard. But not because it's a smart thing to do.
Re: Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:36 pm
by jd20132013
what Danger Zone said, actually.
Re: Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:36 pm
by rahulg91
Danger Zone wrote:I'd pick Harvard. But not because it's a smart thing to do.
Re: Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:40 pm
by Danger Zone
OP, FOLLOW YOUR DREAMS right off a cliff and into financial suicide
Re: Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:41 pm
by ph14
Mullens wrote:
Replace the two school names with Harvard and UVA as applicable.
(Credit: Regulus). I would pick UVA full ride over HLS 300k in debt if I wanted to do PI work.
Re: Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:43 pm
by ymmv
Pick UVA, dumbass.
Hth.
Re: Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:43 pm
by Kronk
Go to Harvard, bro.
Just do it.
Re: Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:46 pm
by ymmv
Kronk wrote:Go to Harvard, bro.
Just do it.
You're not a prestige whore if you pay to get fucked, right?
Re: Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:49 pm
by PB&J.D.
ManoftheHour wrote:Retake, ED UVA
TCR
Re: Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:50 pm
by Kronk
ymmv wrote:Kronk wrote:Go to Harvard, bro.
Just do it.
You're not a prestige whore if you pay to get fucked, right?
not really part of my analysis
i just want to spare the world in 2022 one more person going around telling people he was admitted to harvard law but didn't go
Re: Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:53 pm
by snooze
UVA is obviously a PC answer.
But you live only once. I'd take Harvard.
Re: Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:54 pm
by Attax
TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN
Re: Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:57 pm
by ymmv
Kronk wrote:ymmv wrote:Kronk wrote:Go to Harvard, bro.
Just do it.
You're not a prestige whore if you pay to get fucked, right?
not really part of my analysis
i just want to spare the world in 2022 one more person going around telling people he was admitted to harvard law but didn't go
Which is worse, that or running around telling people after much humming and hawing that he attends a legal institution in Cambridge.
Re: Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 11:59 pm
by 03152016
Kronk wrote:ymmv wrote:Kronk wrote:Go to Harvard, bro.
Just do it.
You're not a prestige whore if you pay to get fucked, right?
not really part of my analysis
i just want to spare the world in 2022 one more person going around telling people he was admitted to harvard law but didn't go
somebody irl literally told me that today
ugh
Re: Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 12:12 am
by ymmv
Brut wrote:Kronk wrote:ymmv wrote:Kronk wrote:Go to Harvard, bro.
Just do it.
You're not a prestige whore if you pay to get fucked, right?
not really part of my analysis
i just want to spare the world in 2022 one more person going around telling people he was admitted to harvard law but didn't go
somebody irl literally told me that today
ugh
TBF as a URM I almost feel compelled by paranoid insecurity to do this just to preempt doubts about my "deserving" to be at my school. Almost.
Re: Yell at me and tell me to pick UVA (Dillard) over H (off WL)
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2014 12:13 am
by Kronk
Well if they only think you got into your school because you're a URM they'll probably just think you only got into HLS because you're a URM too.