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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are the PPs lawyers?

No practicing lawyer would recommend turning down Yale for UC Berkeley.[/quote]

OMG. Plenty of practicing lawyers would suggest this. [/quote]

practicing lawyer here, former biglaw partner (at a boutique midlaw firm now). i would absolutely recommend UCB with a near-free ride vs yale full cost. i'd go a step further and call you stupid for not following my advice.

btw, yale grads tend not to do well in biglaw for some reason. must be the whole gay sex and cocaine thing; they often wind up in academia. [/quote]

Wait what?  This poster sounds crazy.

A lot of the posters seem to be missing that OP’s kid wants to do human rights now, not BigLaw or private equity.  For human rights law, I’d say definitely YLS.[/quote]

I agree with this. If you really want to make it in a field like human rights law you will benefit from the YLS name and working the connections HARD.

My spouse is in a different field of law but turned down a full ride to a top 20 school to go to YLS. The financial piece was hard for me to understand at the time, even though he was able to get financial help from his family. Right out of school it opened so many doors, and for even about 10 years longer he could call an old professor and get a connection with someone nearly anywhere he wanted. It was astonishing and with the way the job market is now I’d want that ability.

I say this as someone who also got a graduate degree from Yale, but in a program where they are a top 5 MAYBE. The name opens doors for sure but it’s not the same. I wouldn’t give this advice for Yale generally but for YLS it’s worth it. [/quote]

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