Harvard Law vs. Yale Law

posterX
Tue, 04 Oct 2005 08:25:50 +0000

What’s much more important to prospective students isn’t the # of justices on the Supreme Court (a sample size of seven people is hardly relevant, anyways), but the chance you’d get to CLERK for one of the justices.

Yale has by far the highest rate of sending its graduates onto Supreme Court clerkships. UChicago is a distant second, and Harvard is third.

This probably helps explain why over 80% of students admitted to Yale Law choose Yale. Only about 55-60% of students admitted to Harvard Law choose Harvard.