Harvard Law School

HappyAlumnus
Sat, 24 Sep 2016 17:40:53 +0000

I had very few extracurriculars and internships in college. I just studied and studied in college. I had other life experiences outside of extracurriculars/internships that got HLS’s attention, I’d guess; I certainly wrote about them in my application.

At HLS, I did a lot more and had some very interesting jobs and very interesting extracurriculars, usually involving trips somewhere abroad. Very enjoyable.

Yes, I worked in large law firms for a while after graduating. Basically everyone from a school like HLS (or similar schools) who wants a large law firm job gets one. You can’t pick the exact employer and automatically get the job, but you can get the type of job you want–such as “doing X work in city Y with a law firm in the AmLaw 50”, for example.