This is OP. Did not deliberately ignore. I do not deliberately ignore anyone's posts, but I am very busy. So I sometimes miss them if there's a very large number between my rashes of responses. But I do not deliberately ignore any posts.canoe wrote:bump. wasn't sure if you intentionally skipped it OP but in that case, feel free to ignore.canoe wrote:Thanks for this OP. Much appreciated.
You mentioned how HYS internally calculate their #1 students for clerkship purposes. Since HS have grades beyond just H, such as DS or book awards, I can see how this would be possible. But for Y, since they don't have any grades beyond H, what happens when there are multiple students with all H's? I can imagine dean minow calling up judges and selling the fay diploma recipient but wouldn't this be harder to do at Yale since Yale's grade system leads to less distinction between the top 5-10 students who have all H's?
I've always theorized that b/c of this, it's 'better' (at least for SC clerkship purposes) to go to harvard if you know you can become the top student. Of course, this is faulty thinking b/c you can't ever know how well you will do at any one law school.
I guess this might be right, if you can be sure to be #1. But how could you be? And how many people have this choice anyway?
If we're having a totally theoretical discussion, I guess it would be better to have the Fay Diploma from Harvard than to be one of Yale's top 3-4 that the school tries to position all as #1. But all of those people are in unbelievably strong positions for their whole legal careers. I feel almost a little ridiculous answering this. Then again, I didn't say "only non-ridiculous questions allowed." So there you go.