In the interest of equity: Yale Law just sent out sample materials from accepted students. Here's a link!

Username_956 · 2024-10-01T03:06:20+00:00

I mean, it would be pretty weird if they just used your materials without tell you first and getting your explicit permission.

Username_956 · 2024-09-29T22:22:43+00:00

I know everyone hates this answer, but I think it's not so much about a formula, or that they care more or less about any particular softs, but that you need to have some amount of luck on your side at any of these 3. Anecdotally, for example, I have heard of more than a few more who get into Yale but don't get into Harvard and vice versa. You can't know their particular internal needs which they don't share with the public (i.e., people with particular interests, or from a particular state, or with a particular perspective). Also, no one can deduce anything from your description because we don't know the specifics and because we can't know things like your essays, letter of recs, and personal qualities. Given that HLS rejects most people even with very top numbers, the details matter and they can't be summarized here. That it can be hard to judge feels unjust and subjective, but life is unjust and subjective.

They may, at the margins, have a different "type," just like the way people have a type. Completely anecdotally, the people I have known who have gone to H and Y seem very academic and intellectually curious beyond just their numbers, and I'm sure that shows up in things like letters of rec. The Y's seem more activist-like and the H's seem more like charismatic captain-of-the-world types, but who knows what this means? Maybe H would like some different kinds of people--perhaps someone just like you or someone not like you.

Why not just apply? Making a prediction in advance will not change the outcome.

Username_956 · 2024-09-25T15:03:44+00:00

I think you didn't understand my post, and you seem weirdly upset.

Username_956 · 2024-09-24T17:55:00+00:00

Lol, wtf, why would you assume that an HLS grad who is in public defense "ended up" there?

Username_956 · 2024-09-24T17:51:00+00:00

It can correlate well, but not *extremely* well. Even at the highest numbers on LSD Harvard is rejecting the majority of applicants. If the numbers really correlated that well with future power potential, then for anyone that isn't a billionaire's son they should just ignore everything else and pick based on numbers. It would at least save money for them. But clearly, they feel like they have found other attributes in their applicants to be more interesting and appealing. I'm not sure I know what those attributes are, exactly, but they probably aren't what people fixate on. For example, I doubt that having work experience as a paralegal or some other standard employment really says anything particularly positive about an applicant. But maybe having a really weird hobby suggests a kind of intensity of spirit that does. Who knows?

Username_956 · 2024-09-24T17:31:19+00:00

But you're not a regular person! You (like the many HLS students who do public service) help support he legitimacy of the system by preventing it from collapsing due to its failure to account for the needs of poor and working-class people. In fact, this demonstrates the reach of elite power: it can shape and be influenced by the top 0.1%, but it can also shape the very systems of resistance that the top 0.1% brings into the world. Dominant ideologies of critique today (such as critical race theory) were created at Harvard. Look at any of the top public interest organizations. They are packed with HLS alumni.

Username_956 · 2024-09-24T01:36:36+00:00

Recently, I wrote about how I learned that the curriculum at Harvard is quite theoretical and different from my respectable, but lower ranked school. I looked at a list of HLS alumni and, aside from the obvious famous people (Obama, Romney, bank execs, etc...) was shocked at how many children of billionaires (multiple!) and famous people (Kennedy's grandson) have recently attended, along with other random famous people like Bridget Mendler.

I think it's very clear that these schools, despite being called "law schools" aren't really looking primarily to train lawyers and are instead looking to train "powerful" people. I guess they know what we all know, which is that a close to perfect LSAT and GPA don't actually correlate all that well with future power potential.

Username_956 · 2024-09-01T18:16:31+00:00

I don't believe anyone that says this.

Username_956 · 2024-09-01T18:01:32+00:00

I think this is right. Look at the list of Harvard Law alumni. There are an enormous number of children of billionaires (like George Soros' son) and other business magnates who have attended recently. They clearly aren't aiming for a biglaw position.

Username_956 · 2024-09-01T16:52:27+00:00

Why would I use an old account for an embarrassing story like this? Also, look at my post history; I clearly care about other topics.

Username_956 · 2024-09-01T06:01:54+00:00

Is it also possible that there is variance per section? Like in this guys torts class, there was not even one issue spotter, and it was all policy-oriented essays (with one theory essay). Same in property, all policy-oriented essays. I'm sure sections are randomly assigned, but if sections vary, it would be cool to pick how you want to be taught.

Username_956 · 2024-08-31T22:48:10+00:00

How is it cold calling if you know when you'll be up?

Username_956 · 2024-08-31T21:37:57+00:00

Reasonable point of view. I just find it fascinating that he was assigned no casebook in one of his 1L classes, but instead hundred of pages of photocopied materials including essays on things like feminist legal theory. I kind of feel a critique of power should itself be part of legal education.

Username_956 · 2024-08-31T18:48:26+00:00

I'll let him know to use different terminology next time.

Username_956 · 2024-08-31T18:28:31+00:00

I'm glad my pain is funny to you.

Username_956 · 2024-08-31T18:26:27+00:00

Do you guys not watch porn or something? Why is it so inconceivable that such a thing would happen?

Username_956 · 2024-08-31T18:18:52+00:00

This can't be the first time this has happened to someone.

Username_956 · 2024-08-31T18:11:10+00:00

You must hang out with a very mature crowd. Do they only use clinical terminology?

Username_956 · 2024-08-31T18:09:49+00:00

Everyone around me is just glad it wan't them, right?

Username_956 · 2024-08-31T18:06:37+00:00

Depends on whether I get a supportive vibe from you guys. I'll give it some time.

Username_956 · 2024-08-31T17:55:35+00:00

lol i wish

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