<p>I would go with Yale, if I was interested in child advocacy. YLS has a great child education clinic led by Jean Koh Peters. It’s still going to be competitive, because public interest people are naturally more drawn to YLS, and you actually have to be more competitive if you want a public interest job over a law firm one. In fact, it might be less competitive at HLS. I’m currently at YLS, and turned down HLS and a full ride to DLS two years ago. Man, I wish my parents were as diligent as you are. I had to make these decisions totally on my own. oh and one more thing, YLS also gave me a lot more financial aid than HLS, but I waited till very close to the end to HLS know and argued for more aid, so HLS ended up matching my YLS aid. In terms of COAP, it used to be that YLS’s program is a lot more generous than HLS, but I believe that is not going to be true for the incoming class.</p>