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[Mack.Hambleton]

Anyone have any inkling on a date this might happen?

orientation

[HorseThief]

Anyone have any inkling on a date this might happen?

orientation

So within the next 2 weeks.

[Hand]

[Gray]

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[everything_bagel]

Who are these trolls that choose something other than 'prestige' on the poll?

Anyway, like y'all, not gonna happen, but yolo, so applying.

Genuinely not a troll! I'm interested in HLS because (a) it has amazing clinics; (b) the public interest career office is basically the best in the biz, and (c) HLS has a great LRAP. Obviously those are options in the first place in part because HLS is preftigious, but I don't care about the preftige for its own sake. I'd imagine few of you do either, right? (I hope?) Like, preftige is useful because it helps HLS grads get jerbs or w/e, but it's not good in and of itself. I'm not interested in being able to tell some rando I'm sitting next to on the plane or someone I'm trying to pick up in a bar that I go to Harvard, because that would be weird. I was genuinely really surprised that everyone marked it in the poll, and was actually thinking I'd really like to hear what people mean by preftige or why they care about it. Maybe we're just interpreting the question differently?

New poll idea:

If you went to HLS, where would you tell people you go to school?

a) Boston
b) just outside Boston
c) not in Boston, but nearby. not Tufts.
d) Cambridge
e) New England
f) Harvard
g) Harvard Law School
h) BU

[pylon]

I'm not interested in being able to tell some rando I'm sitting next to on the plane or someone I'm trying to pick up in a bar that I go to Harvard, because that would be weird.

No joke, the last time I was on a plane the person sitting next to me did this exact same thing. You were right, it was weird...

[Mack.Hambleton]

Who are these trolls that choose something other than 'prestige' on the poll?

Anyway, like y'all, not gonna happen, but yolo, so applying.

Genuinely not a troll! I'm interested in HLS because (a) it has amazing clinics in my very specific interest areas; (b) the public interest career office is basically the best in the biz, and (c) HLS has a great LRAP. Obviously those are options in the first place in part because HLS is preftigious, but I don't care about the preftige for its own sake. I'd imagine few of you do either, right? (I hope?) Like, preftige is useful because it helps HLS grads get jerbs or w/e, but it's not good in and of itself. I'm not interested in being able to tell some rando I'm sitting next to on the plane or someone I'm trying to pick up in a bar that I go to Harvard, because that would be weird. I was genuinely really surprised that everyone marked it in the poll, and was actually thinking I'd really like to hear what people mean by preftige or why they care about it. Maybe we're just interpreting the question differently?

New poll idea:

If you went to HLS, where would you tell people you go to school?

a) Boston
b) just outside Boston
c) not in Boston, but nearby. not Tufts.
d) Cambridge
e) New England
f) Harvard
g) Harvard Law School
h) BU

seems more douchey to say "oh i go to school in boston" instead of just saying where you go to school. like oh I don't want to offend you with muh prefstige

[xylocarp]

Who are these trolls that choose something other than 'prestige' on the poll?

Anyway, like y'all, not gonna happen, but yolo, so applying.

Genuinely not a troll! I'm interested in HLS because (a) it has amazing clinics in my very specific interest areas; (b) the public interest career office is basically the best in the biz, and (c) HLS has a great LRAP. Obviously those are options in the first place in part because HLS is preftigious, but I don't care about the preftige for its own sake. I'd imagine few of you do either, right? (I hope?) Like, preftige is useful because it helps HLS grads get jerbs or w/e, but it's not good in and of itself. I'm not interested in being able to tell some rando I'm sitting next to on the plane or someone I'm trying to pick up in a bar that I go to Harvard, because that would be weird. I was genuinely really surprised that everyone marked it in the poll, and was actually thinking I'd really like to hear what people mean by preftige or why they care about it. Maybe we're just interpreting the question differently?

New poll idea:

If you went to HLS, where would you tell people you go to school?

a) Boston
b) just outside Boston
c) not in Boston, but nearby. not Tufts.
d) Cambridge
e) New England
f) Harvard
g) Harvard Law School
h) BU

seems more douchey to say "oh i go to school in boston" instead of just saying where you go to school. like oh I don't want to offend you with muh prefstige

Clearly there is disagreement here. Poll added!

[Dream_weaver32]

My thing is, yeah you might put some people off by saying you go to Harvard Law, but you did the work to get there. If I get in, heck yeah I'm going to say that's where I go to school.

[xylocarp]

I haven't voted yet. Interested to hear if anyone has other arguments

[Mack.Hambleton]

I don't think most people where I live would know what cambridge is (or make the cambridge -> harvard connection)

[Gray]

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[Winston1984]

Definitely wouldn't be trying to use it to brag/get laid, but I'd be proud I went to HLS and say that's where I went. Wouldn't bring it up unless asked though.. I know people that name drop schools that aren't even that big of a deal, that's the worst.

[R. Jeeves]

Who are these trolls that choose something other than 'prestige' on the poll?

Anyway, like y'all, not gonna happen, but yolo, so applying.

Genuinely not a troll! I'm interested in HLS because (a) it has amazing clinics in my very specific interest areas; (b) the public interest career office is basically the best in the biz, and (c) HLS has a great LRAP. Obviously those are options in the first place in part because HLS is preftigious, but I don't care about the preftige for its own sake. I'd imagine few of you do either, right? (I hope?) Like, preftige is useful because it helps HLS grads get jerbs or w/e, but it's not good in and of itself. I'm not interested in being able to tell some rando I'm sitting next to on the plane or someone I'm trying to pick up in a bar that I go to Harvard, because that would be weird. I was genuinely really surprised that everyone marked it in the poll, and was actually thinking I'd really like to hear what people mean by preftige or why they care about it. Maybe we're just interpreting the question differently?

New poll idea:

If you went to HLS, where would you tell people you go to school?

a) Boston
b) just outside Boston
c) not in Boston, but nearby. not Tufts.
d) Cambridge
e) New England
f) Harvard
g) Harvard Law School
h) BU

seems more douchey to say "oh i go to school in boston" instead of just saying where you go to school. like oh I don't want to offend you with muh prefstige

Yeah this could be a problem if after you responded "boston" they asked which school specifically. Then if you said "Harvard" they would be like "wow you conceited bastard, you didn't want to say your school's name because you believe that saying it would be bragging. How pompous of you to think such a thing."

[pylon]

I don't think there's anything wrong with saying Harvard Law, as long as this information was asked of you and it's not information that was unprompted.

[HorseThief]

I feel like most conversations go "What do you do?" > Imma grad student. "Oh, where?" > Harvard Law (because they'll probably ask what you're studying there, so drop that law bomb quick).

I can't even imagine the question where 'Boston' would be the right response.

[everything_bagel]

I feel like most conversations go "What do you do?" > Imma grad student. "Oh, where?" > Harvard Law (because they'll probably ask what you're studying there, so drop that law bomb quick).

I can't even imagine the question where 'Boston' would be the right response.

I don't think it would be that weird to say you're a grad student in Boston and quickly shift the conversation to Italian food or gentrification in JP or the AL east pennant or whatever, but evidently I'm in the minority here. I think the level of douchey is more dependent on your apparent intention. Are you trying to avoid dropping the h bomb because it's just so ~*preftigious*~ or because it's not relevant? To be fair I'd prob say the same thing about wherever I went to school, because what is up with nosy acquaintances? I'm literally never going to see this guy again; what does he care?

irl I don't know if I could get away for this w/r/t Harvard because all my friends lol so hard at people who dissemble here.

[Gray]

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[xylocarp]

"What do you do?"
"I'm a law student!"
"Oh cool! Where?"

a) "NOT YALE. FUCK."
b) "The only place Rachel Zane was rejected from, and if you don't know what that means, we aren't friends."
c) "Harvard!!!!!"
d) "Oh, just this little place in Cambridge, Massachusetts."

Your random use of quiz form reminds me of Gone Girl. Also lol at "little"

Everyone here convinced me. I picked "Harvard Law" (though I'd probably communicate it as "oh I'm in law school at Harvard"). I could see the Boston answer being appropriate depending on context though. What a dilemma to have... don't want to get my hopes up too high haha.

[R. Jeeves]

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[TheMostDangerousLG]

You all think you'll say HLS, but you haven't experienced it yet. Shit gets surprisingly weird when you mention where you are going to new people. People you have just met will form a complete (and likely inaccurate) picture of you just from that H-word, which kind of sucks.

That said, don't do the Boston thing.

[xylocarp]

You all think you'll say HLS, but you haven't experienced it yet. Shit gets surprisingly weird when you mention where you are going to new people. People you have just met will form a complete (and likely inaccurate) picture of you just from that H-word, which kind of sucks.

That said, don't do the Boston thing.

What answer do you recommend, as a now-1L?

[TheMostDangerousLG]

You all think you'll say HLS, but you haven't experienced it yet. Shit gets surprisingly weird when you mention where you are going to new people. People you have just met will form a complete (and likely inaccurate) picture of you just from that H-word, which kind of sucks.

That said, don't do the Boston thing.

What answer do you recommend, as a now-1L?

Eh, if they ask me outright what school I'm going to I'll say HLS, but otherwise if they ask "what do you do" or whatever, I say that I'm about to be going to law school (I guess in a couple days I'll actually be able to say "I go to law school"!). Most of the time people don't ask where and just leave it at that. So basically, I don't recommend doing the weird hinting around where you go to school thing, but I do recommend maneuvering away from that line of questioning.

Oh man, I wish I could pretend that my impending law school future was responsible for my neuroticism, but I'd be lying to myself. X)

[pylon]

Anyone planning on visiting HLS during the cycle?

[everything_bagel]

Anyone planning on visiting HLS during the cycle?

Yessir. Very excited.