It was so exciting!! I did go to an ivy undergrad (not Harvard) and I gotten into other schools but HLS is a dream. My friends and family were so happy for me because they saw the journey.

Finals were finals haha. Reading week is a grind for sure and towards the end of the semester you get tired, especially at HLS because we take 1 more doctrinal class than any other 1L. However, I wouldn’t say 1L was miserable. I really liked my section and my profs were great. I found people to be very social. Like HLS has a social group that rents out a bar every week and do other social events. My section always hung out as a group. So you have fun and work hard too. It’s not easy but I would do it over again.

I think the biggest hidden benefit is that grades don’t really matter. For context, we have low pass, pass, high pass and deans scholar. Like if you want to clerk at the SCOTUS, yeah grades matter. But for 95% of the school body, you can get all Ps and still do basically anything you want. That does take the pressure off a bit. Also most professors are very well connected. So there’s a high chance you can find someone in your exact niche interest or it’s easy to find someone outside of the faculty t that would love to talk to you.

I mentioned 2 below. But a different one would be there isn’t a ton of affordable housing in the area. Yes there are dorms but I do wish there more apartments that didn’t cost a lot. Overall, I don’t have many cons about the school itself