W&M vs. uVA for someone who wants to go for a humanities PhD after undergrad?

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Anonymous wrote:Professor here...agree both are great options and the student should look at specific faculty profiles and/or evaluate where they'll be happiest.

Botb are great. My UVA grad is doing a doctorate (DPhil) at Oxford right now.

Cambridge > Oxford

What would drive one to post this?

It is not responsive to anything, but shows your ugly side.

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Anonymous wrote:Lol at the you need a degree beyond the Bachelor to get into a top law school. You don’t.

Of the 559 members of the Harvard Law class of 2025, only 51 had an advanced degree. That’s right, folks - 508 of them didn’t.

In all likelihood, the majority of the 51 Harvard law school students in the entering class of 2025 had advanced degrees because they got their degrees and then decided to go to law school; they didn’t get them to boost their law school applications.

Information such as this is readily available to the public. Why not do your research before spouting off nonsense?

https://hls.harvard.edu/jdadmissions/apply-to-harvard-law-school/jdapplicants/hls-profile-and-facts/

But 80 percent took off more than one year.

So while they may not have been getting an advanced degree, they were doing something else with "oomph - "like the culinary arts master mentioned. Or something equally amazing, like the Olypians in my class.

And five or six of the Justices do have MPhils from Oxford or Cambridge and Gorsuch has a DPhil.

So every bit can help when it comes to a top law school admission (Gorsuch did his DPhil on a Marshall after his JD from Harvard).

When I went to Harvard Law, my class was riddled with Rhodes Scholars, Marshalls, Fulbrights,, and advanced degrees from London School of Econ. Even then, most students took time off. The Harvard undergrads that didn't get in straight from the undergraduate college often went overseas to Germany, France and England to study and then apply again. I went the paralegal route to make money to pay for it.

Does this apply to all law schools? of course not. But unhooked kids can no longer get into a T14 just on GPA and LSAT.

Yes they can! Many many unhooked friends of my kid got in unhooked to T14 from their T10. It is not hard, many were average(3.8 not counting the A+ boost law admissions gives) to a bit above average GPA, not top 10% or anything like that, went right from undergrad and some got merit scholarships. Now unhooked into Yale or Harvard is harder, have to be 3.93+ ( about top25% there) but she even knows a couple of those. Her undergrad sends so many kids to T14 every year and a couple dozen total to T5 law. Some choose years off , some do not. All have interned in DC and other impressive things, but that is common practice for prelaws at this T10 and other peer schools too.