Yale Transfer Experience? Forum

[TatteredDignity]

I doubt any of you are lurking around here, but if you are:

1)What range of school did you come from, and do you feel whatever you've gained has outweighed what you lost by transferring?

2)How difficult has it been to make connections with professors, especially with regard to connections that could lead to clerkship recommendations?

3)How tangible is the transfer stigma, if any?

If you're a Yalie and you know the situation of any transfers, that'd be great input as well.

Thanks!

[nonprofit-prophet]

I doubt any of you are lurking around here, but if you are:

1)What range of school did you come from, and do you feel whatever you've gained has outweighed what you lost by transferring?

2)How difficult has it been to create connections with professors, especially with regard to connections that could lead to clerkship recommendations?

3)How tangible is the transfer stigma, if any?

If you're a Yalie and you know the situation of any transfers, that'd be great input as well.

Thanks!

Curious about this as well. This was quite a few years ago, but I remember someone on TLS had transferred from George Mason to Yale and had a GPA well above a 4.0. I think there was also an NYU student that transferred in the past couple of years.

[vanwinkle]

Here's my Yale transfer experience:

Rejections come by E-mail, and don't waste time pretending was a hard decision. Some schools might be all, "unfortunately we get so many highly qualified applicants to choose from blah blah blah", but Yale's was just, We regret that we are unable to accept you as a transfer student.

HTH.

[LawMan20]

Ha. Even if a Yale transferree came in here and said they've had a horrible experience since transferring, I wouldn't think twice about going if I got an acceptance. But, it would still be interesting to see answers to these questions.

[TatteredDignity]

Here's my Yale transfer experience:

Rejections come by E-mail, and don't waste time pretending was a hard decision. Some schools might be all, "unfortunately we get so many highly qualified applicants to choose from blah blah blah", but Yale's was just, We regret that we are unable to accept you as a transfer student.

HTH.

Thanks for sharing your experience. I now know to brace myself for bluntness.

[TatteredDignity]

Ha. Even if a Yale transferree came in here and said they've had a horrible experience since transferring, I wouldn't think twice about going if I got an acceptance. But, it would still be interesting to see answers to these questions.

Why? Because it's OMG YALE? It's obviously a fantastic opportunity. But if several people come in here and say they got the short shrift on clerkships, or that they landed some V10 firm that they could have had from their old school, then that's something to think about. You can't eat prestige.

[LawMan20]

Ha. Even if a Yale transferree came in here and said they've had a horrible experience since transferring, I wouldn't think twice about going if I got an acceptance. But, it would still be interesting to see answers to these questions.

Why? Because it's OMG YALE? It's obviously a fantastic opportunity. But if several people come in here and say they got the short shrift on clerkships, or that they landed some V10 firm that they could have had from their old school, then that's something to think about. You can't eat prestige.

Yea mainly bc omg yale. Also, I would imagine that being a Yale transfer beats the hell out of anything besides top of the class at other T-14s. This is purely conjecture, though. I could be wrong, probably am.

[Kabuo]

I hear there is a stigma attached to transfers they suspect were posting on TLS instead of writing briefs.

[TatteredDignity]

I hear there is a stigma attached to transfers they suspect were posting on TLS instead of writing briefs.

I hear they care about results.

[LawMan20]

I hear there is a stigma attached to transfers they suspect were posting on TLS instead of writing briefs.

I hear they care about results.

F a stigma, and F the results. It's freakin' pass/fail.

[lsatcrazy]

You can't eat prestige.

Yet I think some on this site subsist solely on it...

[TatteredDignity]

I hear there is a stigma attached to transfers they suspect were posting on TLS instead of writing briefs.

I hear they care about results.

F a stigma, and F the results. It's freakin' pass/fail.

Not here. Apparently a bunch of people showed up drunk for the final one year or something because it was such a joke, so they made it graded.

[LawMan20]

I hear there is a stigma attached to transfers they suspect were posting on TLS instead of writing briefs.

I hear they care about results.

F a stigma, and F the results. It's freakin' pass/fail.

Not here. Apparently a bunch of people showed up drunk for the final one year or something because it was such a joke, so they made it graded.

Oh wow. Well that blows. Good luck.

[TatteredDignity]

Oh wow. Well that blows. Good luck.

Thanks. Long night ahead.