Harvard Law vs. Yale Law

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>Which one is better?</p>

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<p>At that level it's irrelevent. If you were to be lucky enough to be accepted at both, it would be the really little, nearly insignificant things that would make that decision for you, as on the grand scale both will without a shadow of a doubt give you equally incredible opportunities in the world of law.</p>

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<p>that's grad school! this is college. there's a difference.</p>

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<p>As if there's any real difference between the 2. They're both the best there is full stop.</p>

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<p>Well, Yale Law has an acceptance rate of 6.5% whereas Harvard Law has rate of 10.0%..... (yes this is the CC in me talking)</p>

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<p>BUt then you could also say that Yale has a much smaller school with less students. But then, as if acceptance rates really tell the whole story- Its not like being a Yale grad gives all that much advantage, if any at all, over a harvard law grad anyways.</p>

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<p>They have quite different focuses. Harvard is more pre-professional, Yale more theoretical. Yes, Yale is 1/3 the size, so it is probably more impressive to get into it, and Harvard has a better location, but overall, it's close (Yale wins). Stanford comes close to those two, too.</p>

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<p>Yale is the best of the two. Harvard has been ranked #2, #3, #4 since the U.S. News Law School rankings were first issued in 1987. Yale has been ranked #1 every single year.</p>

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<p>As if rankings really translate to any advantage in real life. As if rankings really mean anything anyways! Both are the best and I don't think just based on rankings you can say any one is better than the other.</p>

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<p>I'd say UChicago, Michigan, and Stanford law schools are better than Harvard Law, not just Yale</p>

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<p>well you are wrong :)</p>

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<p>Why Michigan, posterX? Why not Columbia, or Penn? It's rather arbitrary and banal.</p>

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<p>Among other evidence, DRab, why Michigan Law is better than Columbia or Penn:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.sciencewatch.com/nov-dec2002/sw_nov-dec2002_page2.htm#Law%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.sciencewatch.com/nov-dec2002/sw_nov-dec2002_page2.htm#Law&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>You will see Yale is alone at the top (#1), then Texas, Mich, UChicago and Harvard are basically tied for second.</p>

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<p>Whatever floats your boat.</p>

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<p>On the current US Supreme Court:</p>

<p>A. Kennedy - Harvard Law School
D. Souter - Harvard Law School
A. Scalia - Harvard Law School
S. Breyer- Harvard Law School
J. Roberts - Harvard Law School
R.B. Ginsburg - Harvard Law School and Columbia Law</p>

<p>C. Thomas - Yale Law School</p>

<p>Final Score: Harvard 6, Yale 1</p>

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<p>Now adjust for school size and it's less impressive. Oh yeah, and perhaps age.</p>

<p>It's cute how you people think that one factor is the determining factor period full-stop.</p>

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<p>I think that's largely irrelevant. </p>

<p>Having Scalia associated with Harvard isn't a good thing.</p>

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<p>Yale Law School was founded in 1843, so yeah I guess it just hasn't had enough time put very many justices on the US Supreme Court. Maybe when it matures some more it will make a better showing.</p>

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<p>And having Clarence Thomas associated with Yale is something to be proud of? Thomas is the joke of the Supreme Court - GHW Bush's biggest appointment mistake (with Dan Quayle running a close second). Thomas never says a single word during the oral arguments. He just waits to see how Scalia is voting and then votes that way himself.</p>

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<p>Now continue ignoring the size factor. Or yeah, and their emphasis, the people they attract . . .</p>

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<p>You mean Clarence Thomas?</p>