Which law school should I attend?

[2Fast]

f*ck Wikipedia - having lived in the area for about 5 years I can assure you that Columbia is in the Upper West Side (Morningside Heights is technically part of the UWS).

I don't think analogy makes any sense though bc I lived in Boston for a couple years too and Cambridge is like 5-6 stops from Downtown Boston while Columbia is essentialy at the top of the UWS. You have to cross the river to get to Boston from Cambridge too so they seem like different towns (and are).

[fslexcduck]

yeah if you get into yale law and don't go for any reason other than a) money or b) because it is in new haven then you're just plain silly. i would even maybe sacrifice another 3 yrs of my life in new haven if i happened to get in. maybe.

[ElliotR]

Harvard. Easy choice, IMO.

[Blarg]

I know a guy who regularly staggers people simply by mentioning that he went to Harvard law. It's a lifelong trump card.

[Boris]

You have the perfect lawyer attitude.

[Kneel B4 Zod]

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f*ck Wikipedia - having lived in the area for about 5 years I can assure you that Columbia is in the Upper West Side (Morningside Heights is technically part of the UWS).

I don't think analogy makes any sense though bc I lived in Boston for a couple years too and Cambridge is like 5-6 stops from Downtown Boston while Columbia is essentialy at the top of the UWS. You have to cross the river to get to Boston from Cambridge too so they seem like different towns (and are).

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you guys are really missing the point.

if school location is important to OP, and he's the type to stay on campus/in the neighborhood, then he should compare Harvard Sq. to Morningside Heights. if he's the type to frequently get on the T/subway for 45 minutes, then he should compare Cambridge/Boston to NYC. saying it's "Cambridge vs. NYC" is silly.

(and you have to cross the river? wtf? it's not like you're swimming)

[Aloysius]

Fslexduck - What's up with New Haven bashing? It's fine for when you're a student IMO, quality of life is pretty good, and it's way cheaper than Manhattan.

OP - actaully sounds like you're getting some decent advice in this thread. Want to re-emphasize this:

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Harvard will also make it easier to get an in-house GC position at certain firms, bus dev/corp dev/M&A, venture capital, and a variety of other business roles that people w/ law backgrounds end up doing.

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I don't know if that's true on average, but if it is, IMO definitely a "pro" for HLS. I know a ton of lawyers who went into corporate law, and I can only think of a handful who either didn't get bumped off partner track, or just got sick of the work and did something else.

-Al

[ElliotR]

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you guys are really missing the point.

if school location is important to OP, he needs to think again

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FYP

[highlife]

YOU got into Harvard Law!?

[2Fast]

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Harvard is as close to Boston (and as easy to get to) as Columbia is to the Upper West Side.

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don't think we're missing the point - we were both commenting that what you said is technically incorrect - Columbia is in the UWS and in the actual City of New York while Harvard is in Cambridge so while a short distance away it's not actually in Boston or even in the general Boston downtown/city are so not a direct comparable. Clearly NYC and Boston/Cambridge are very different in any event.

I also disagree to a certain extent that Cambridge is all that easy to get to at least via subway. If you don't take a cab from say Back Bay you have to do a circuitous subway loop and go downtown first then go back up the redline which is a pain but not all that bad - adds say 10 minutes to the trip (granted with a car it's no big deal) if you're coming from anywhere other than downtown, and not too many people live downtown.