Law school- Yale vs UC Berkeley
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Anonymous
| Would you pay almost a full ride for Yale or go to UCB for nearly free tuition? |
Anonymous
| Easy, UCB tuition free |
Anonymous
| Berkeley. Not even a close question. |
Anonymous
| Yale |
Anonymous
| Boalt, no question about it. |
Anonymous
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UCB you’d still be paying all living costs, etc.? If so, what does that add up to? No need-based financial aid from YLS?
What’s the dollar amount difference between the two options after you factor in all costs? |
Anonymous
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It sort of depends on what you want to do and what else you would do with the money.
For 90+% of people Berkeley makes more sense but if you want to be an academic and you can pay for Yale OOP with no impact on your current or future standard of living then maybe Yale. |
Anonymous
| Depends on what you want from your career. If it were me Boalt. But if you’re the type that wants to be a law professor, scotus justice, and to have the best possible shot then Yale is the move. |
Anonymous
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Are the PPs lawyers?
No practicing lawyer would recommend turning down Yale for UC Berkeley. |
Anonymous
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Berkeley
FWIW -- I'm a native Californian who went to Stanford Law. I have many friends who went to Berkeley and there is not a single opportunity that they've missed out on compared to grads of SLS, Yale Law (where my husband went), HLS and Chicago. |
Anonymous
Are you kidding? There are few people less qualified to practice law than graduates of YLS. They are all very smart people but ask them what a motion in limine is and they have no idea. |
Anonymous
This is the answer. Boalt unless the career track is academia or the judiciary with hopes of getting to a higher level. For every day lawyering, both are going to serve equally well. |
Anonymous
h lol. yes. I am a practicing lawyer. The amount of debt you’d take on to go to Yale full pay is crippling if you want to have any sort of legal career outside of big law (and even within big law). if Berkeley is free that is a no-brainer. the only exception I suppose is if you want to be a professor in which case Yale has an advantage; but with the uncertainty of PSLF, you’re probably still looking at being sentenced to 3-4 years in big law to pay off those loans. |
Anonymous
| Human rights law. |
Anonymous
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Yale if you want to be a politician, professor, judge.
Berkeley if you want to practice law or save money. Or just prefer West Coast |