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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My siblings and I were the first in our family to go to college and going to Yale changed my future also.  While I didn't succeed right out of college (got a job but it wasn't a great one), I was able to get a recommendation from a Yale professor to get into law school 5 years after I had graduated.  Not every prof would have done that.  And then having Yale on my resume for applying for law firm jobs opened doors as well.

I think the lesson here from this and other stories is that not every ivy is the best, but Yale is generally a really good and supportive ivy.[/quote]

Do you realize that you are suggesting that professors at every other college in the country wouldn't write their students a recommendation for law school? Only at Yale would you find a professor willing to write a law school rec. You are so ridiculous. Many of us are still in touch with our college professors decades later.[/quote]

I am not one of those people.  I graduated from college and then never wrote or emailed or visited.  I basically dropped off the face of the earth.  And yet 5 years later my professor still remembered me and was perfectly happy to write me a recommendation.  He did it promptly and didn't make me feel any guilt or shame for asking, or make me feel like it was the slightest imposition to him.  He was kind and generous.

I'm sure professors at many other colleges would do this, I just feel very lucky that mine did and was so kind about it.  [/quote]

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