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<p>Nice. Well done. That’s the kind of thing I’m looking for. I’ll think on this one too …</p>
<p>It doesn’t have the H angle, but it does have the lawyer angle:</p>
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<p>Google “I coulda been a contender” (Brando’s line from On the Waterfront) There is a couple of online stores that have t-shirts with this on it.</p>
<p>Send him the t-shirt with a “sorry, chump” greeting card “signed” by the14 HLS’ SCOTUS members. Here’s a partial list.</p>
<p>Fourteen of the school’s graduates have served on the Supreme Court of the United States, more than any other law school, and another four justices attended the school without graduating. Six of the current nine members of the court attended HLS: Chief Justice John Roberts, and Associate Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, who also served as the Dean of Harvard Law School from 2003 to 2009. Ginsburg transferred to and graduated from Columbia Law School. Past Supreme Court justices from Harvard Law School include David Souter, Harry Blackmun, William J. Brennan, Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, Lewis Powell (LLM), and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., among others.</p>
<p>That’s helpful in case I decide to have fun with Photoshop :-)</p>
<p>Pizzagirl,</p>
<p>I guess this is funny – sort of – but I don’t really get it.</p>
<p>My son turned down University of Chicago undergrad with a generous scholarship attached to attend Harvard. We don’t really feel a need to make jokes about turning down Chicago – a fantastic school – for another option.</p>
<p>People make choices. My DD right now might choose Cornell with a scholarship and unique residential opportunity over Princeton. If she does, then I don’t think we’ll forever be laughing over turning down a supposedly higher ranked college over another one.</p>
<p>So it’s cool your friend did well in the business world rather than pursuing law via Harvard. Is the joke that it’s so hard to get into Harvard Law? I’m sure it was also hard to get into his grad program at Chicago . . .</p>
<p>Oh, it’s not a put-down of Harvard Law AT ALL. This is something that happened 30 years ago and my friend wouldn’t give it another thought except for this – the two of us worked for a mutual boss who was very into “credentialing” and constantly put us in embarrassing situations by trying to make us feel ashamed that we had both gone to Kellogg, which was only ranked the #1 b-school at the time, and not to U Chicago / Booth. @@ My friend wound up working for this person (we work in the same industry but in competing consulting firms) and TO THIS DAY, this person introduces my friend to clients as “so-and-so who got into Harvard Law but didn’t go.” He’s trying to be complimentary to my friend, but it just comes across as boorish. And my friend is quietly brilliant in his own right – he doesn’t need to have a “I turned down Harvard Law” credential hanging over his forehead to be very immediately recognized by clients as having a lot to offer. So really, it’s not poking fun at Harvard Law at all. It’s actually poking fun at this other person’s boorishness in bringing up a firmly-closed-door from 30 years ago that has no relevance to anything today. Which is why the humor needs to be kind of New-Yorker, subtle-ish.</p>
<p>And sewhappy - my friend didn’t turn down Harvard Law specifically to go to Kellogg. He turned down Harvard Law because he didn’t want to be a lawyer, and then did some other things, and later wound up going to Kellogg and on from there. The joke isn’t about comparing Kellogg vs Harvard Law at all.</p>
<p>Another idea is that on flickr, if you search “Harvard Law,” there is a color image of the glass window at the law school with “Harvard Law Admissions” on it. If you can download it, you could photoshop “Just Say No!” on the image. Or, “Just Said No”. Or, “The Road Not Taken.” (a little much, I admit.)</p>
<p>I “get” the humor.</p>
<p>Kellog is a fantastic business school. He made a good decision, obviously.</p>
<p>I think it’s hilarious. Maybe it’s a lawyer-thing.</p>
<p>How about buying him the movie “The Paper Chase”, which is about a first year student at Harvard Law School and his battles with the dreaded Professor Kingsfield.</p>
<p>Well, what I’d do is just get a standard Harvard Law School t-shirt. Then I’d figure out which HLS class he’d have been a member of, and do some research and dig up 4 or 5 famous alums from that class (surely some are federal judges, law school deans, famous lawyers, managing partners in law firms, attorneys general, or U.S. Senators by now). Then I’d find a good t-shirt printing company and have them print on the back, “Class of 1985” (or whatever it is), and list those 4 or 5 people along with their titles, and your friend’s name with a strikethrough and a big “NOT” next to it.</p>
<p>It would take a bit of work, but I’d find that humorous.</p>
<p>A simpler version would just be to get a standard HLS T-Shirt and on the back have printed “Class of 198X” and underneath that “NOT”</p>
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<p>OK…I’m confused. Princeton is SCEA…meaning NO other early applications were supposed to be sent. How would your kiddo know about Cornell already? Also, Cornell doesn’t give “scholarships”…they give only need based financial aid…do you mean grants? </p>
<p>If your child was eligible for a need based “scholarship” at Cornell, why wouldn’t they also have received one from Princeton?</p>
<p>^ It’s an unusual situation. Believe me she only put in one early application. Have pm’d you.</p>
<p>How about this t-shirt, pizzagirl? [Schmarvard</a> T-Shirt from Zazzle.com](<a href=“http://www.zazzle.com/schmarvard_t_shirt-235437983082650643]Schmarvard”>Harvard T-Shirts & T-Shirt Designs | Zazzle)</p>
<p>Wait-- there are a bunch more to choose from: <a href=“No Not Harvard T-Shirts & T-Shirt Designs | Zazzle”>No Not Harvard T-Shirts & T-Shirt Designs | Zazzle;
<p>Zazzle is the online store that has the “Coulda been a contender” shirts–one with only that saying and the other Brando’s entire lament (which would be hysterical for your friend)</p>