Which law school is more prestigious, Harward Or Yale?

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Yale, barely The U.S. News and other rankings show Yale by a nose, no doubt due to the influence of the other, classier Law School up in Hartford. But in that range, "prestige" is pretty subjective. The alumni will happily tell you that the other place is the pits.

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It depends on the yardstick that you use to measure with more than anything else. When I was at the beginning of my senior year of college, I took the LSAT. While I had always been a good -A student, my LSAT put me in the 99th percentile.So, I applied to a number of prestigious schools around the country.

Since I had never seen Stanford, I spent a pleasant several days in the SF area. I also flew into Boston to see Harvard Law and Yale. On the flight to Logan, as luck would have it, I discovered myself seated next to a partner at a Boston establishment firm who had gone to Yale as an undergraduate and who had elected to go to Harvard in a joint M.A. (Economics)/J.D. Program.

This nice gentleman gave me the low down on all of the schools that I had applied to for admission. S comments about Harvard and Yale proved to be true and the data that I’ll give you in a minute will back me up. Before I go any further, I need to remind you that any statistics about selectivity, grade points and LSAT scores are almost meaningless at that level if you attempt to compare any two first class institutions.

The admissions criteria employed by all law schools that I’m familiar with are designed to keep out people who wouldn’t be able to cut the mustard--or would barely squeak by--from those who would thrive academically. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlier They aren't designed to measure the minute differences between the incredibly bright and the very incredibly bright, so their results don't mean much. Keep that in mind when I give you the statistics.

Harvard Law’s orientation is to produce successful lawyers. Each entering class of JD candidates is around 550 souls in number. Based on what the lawyer told me on the plane, my own personal knowledge and what others who have attended Harvard more recently than when I was there for a visit while Nixon was still in office, the school has a slightly different strategy than Yale.

Harvard wants to produce top notch, practicing lawyers. So, it will admit some people who might not be quite as bright as the others, but they were admitted because of where they came from. This has been one of the successes of Harvard Law.

You’ll find more Harvard graduates in places far away from the East Coast. With larger classes, you can pay attention to things such as geographic diversity. I’ll wager that the there more federal judges and state supreme court justices in states west of the Mississippi from Harvard than Yale, even after making allowances for the smaller number of Yale graduates.

If you are going to let in more people and take geography into account, you will have to be slightly less slective in your choices, but minimally so. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_Law_School http://www.law.harvard.edu/about/ Yale Law’s current first year class has 189 people in it. Yale’s orientation is more towards producing future legal academics, rather than practicing lawyers, although, obviously many Yale Law graduates do practice law very successfully.

Yale is slightly more selective in terms of who it lets in, but that is to be expected when you have a smaller entering class. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_Law_School http://www.law.yale.edu/about/about.asp The other major difference is that Yale had a smaller faculty, since it has fewer students to teach.So, almost everyone teaching at Yale Law is a recognized expert. At Harvard, on the other hand, there will be some faculty who are on their way to academic fame and glory, but aren’t there yet.

The smaller ratio of students to faculty is probably a boon to aspiring law professors, but it doesn’t do much one way or another for people who just want to practice law. Bottom line, Yale has a minimal advantage in selectivity. Harvard has a major advantage in terms of power and influence in the world.

I’ll let you draw your own conclusions as to which is more prestigious. If I had to choose law schools again--and my choice was solely between Harvard and Yale-- I’d choose Harvard because it has a much stronger alumni base.P.S.I was admitted at both and went to law school elsewhere for a number of personal reasons. I have never regretted my decision.

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Yale Move over, Harvard Law School. It comes in fourth, after Yale, Chicago and Stanford in the latest law school rankings by professor Brian Leiter based on the number of scholarly citations to legal academics' work. The controversial—and influential—annual U.S.News & World Report law school rankings also give Yale Law School the nod as No.1.

While any attempt to evaluate law schools has limitations, the University of Texas law prof says on his Brian Leiter's Law School Rankings site, "an imperfect measure may still be an adequate measure, and that is almost certainly true of citation rates as a proxy for impact as a proxy for reputation or quality. " Hence, he continues, "I am confident that one will learn more about faculty quality at leading American law schools from the scholarly impact study ... than from U.S. News. " In addition to providing the citation-based rankings, Leiter's site also discusses how they were compiled.In the U.S. News & World Report rankings, the business magazine agrees that Yale Law School is No.

1. It puts Harvard and Stanford Law School (which tied) second on the list, followed by New York University. Columbia University comes in fifth, then the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania tie for 6th.

Sources: http://www.abajournal.com/news/new_rankings_yale_1_harvard_4 .

It depends who you are asking from! If you ask Yale graduates they will tell you their university is more prestigious and if you ask Harvard graduates they will tell you otherwise. This is probably a general rule which does not work all the time but is true in most cases.

These two universities are very competitive and even their football match is interesting. Especially their law schools always compete for the first place. I would say in general Harvard is more prestigious.

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I suspect that duels (or their modern equivalent) have been fought over that question. They are both top schools, with loads of prestige. I think that the choice for a potential student would have to depend on specific needs that a student might have.As far as judging worthiness of presidential candidates, I'd call it a wash.

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