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i don't think Yale's lack of sending an actual admissions dean/counselor reflects poorly on Wash U:
1) we don't know who they usually send to these things, and who they sent to Wash U's peer schools
2) does Yale really need to "recruit" more kids from top-tier schools like Wash U? it seems that we're already sending them lots of applications.... if we sent 59 to Harvard Law, then it stands reasonable to assume that we probably sent a similar amount to Yale Law. considering Wash U isn't a pre-law magnet school (we're pretty good, but Wash U is not THE destination for pre-law like it is for pre-med and other areas here), I think that 59 applications to Harvard is rather a lot. instead, why not send an actual Yale admissions dean to lower-tier colleges to encourage a greater amount of kids apply. if I was on the Yale Law admissions committee, I think my recruitment efforts would be much more effective and productive if I went to either a big state school of lesser-populated states (like North Dakota, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Carolina, etc etc), a smaller regional public school like Northern Arizona University, or a smaller private school far away from the east coast like Occidental in California. I'm just naming schools to illustrate my point, that how much more headway can Yale Law School make at schools like WUSTL/Harvard/Northwestern/Princeton/etc? I dunno, just my point of view.
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