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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If he wants to go into law/business/consulting Yale is a no brainer. Your DH may become jealous of the doors Yale will open for your son though[/quote]

This is only partially correct.

If law, then undergraduate school does not matter.

If business, then matters for first options after undergrad, but does not matter re MBA school & post-MBA employment options.

If consulting, then Yale is the better option.[/quote]

If law, being at Yale is a big advantage. For quality of life and getting into law school... WAY less pressure to be #1 or similar in the class. Yale Law takes like 20 kids/year from Yale and maybe 1 from Penn State. Harvard is similar but with double the admits.

For opportunities... There are just so many at Yale and they're so easily offered. Want to RA for a famous Yale Law professor? Send him an email. He has a fund to pay undergrads to work for him that basically exists so that he can say yes cost-free. Want to spend a summer doing something somewhere? You can almost certainly get it paid for. Want a specific ridiculous club that doesn't exist? Well, it probably does, but... if it doesn't, there are a bunch of funds to get start up money from.

Overall, I really just cannot explain how much Yale gives you the feeling you can do anything you can imagine and how much that feeling sticks with you when you leave.[/quote]

To that point - my dd at Yale got a nice chunk of change to fund work abroad this summer with an NGO. Then just today she got a second and a third grant. She’s gotta turn down one of them because it’s more money than she indicated she needed in her budget but kinda nice to feel like they’re throwing money at her. ( though to be fair we throw WAY more their way…)[/quote]

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