Interesting. Your story is exactly the kind of insight I'm looking for, as you're someone who has made the choice I'm trying to make. I'm definitely staying in USA. I'm looking at Y vs. CCN right now, still waiting on scholarship offers. I'm a business major and plan on sticking with corporate law for quite a while, at least until I decide it's time to move onto general counsel. With that in mind, is CCN still the clear better call? I mentioned this in another post, but we're discussing the difference between funding retirement by 30 and funding it by 32-35 in a worst case scenario, is that really enough to turn down Y?NoLongerALurker wrote: ↑Fri Nov 13, 2020 10:42 amFYI I’ve found the HYS name worth it despite turning down a full ride at CCN. HY is much more portable than CCN if you want to be guaranteed interviews in Canada if you want to make the move back as a junior. (Example: I know several Canadians who were median at HY and received interviews for clerkships for the Supreme Court of Canada, whereas someone graduating top quarter at Columbia did not).
Financially, if you’re sure you will stick it out in biglaw in the States and have a source of cost of living funding (since CCN won’t have loans for you even with the tuition waiver), I think CCN is the clear better call. Beyond that, it’s a lot murkier than people here are giving credit (including HY’s superior low income loan repayment programs, HY’s reach internationally, HY’s ability to extend cost of living loans to its international students, etc.).
I don’t think you can really go wrong. The point about funding your retirement by 30 is an incredibly strong one, and would sensibly sway most people I think. On balance I don’t regret taking HYS, but so think I’d have been happy either way ultimately.
I think I agree with you, in that I can't really go wrong here, but I'm trying to understand why everyones making such a big deal of what will likely be an afterthought 30 years from now especially considering how much individuals in Biglaw/General counsel make.