At this point, I’ve pretty much narrowed down my choices to Yale, Harvard and Michigan. I’m predominantly leaning towards the former two, as the debt difference between Michigan and Y, H does not seem to be much, however I’ve heard mixed comments on whether to pick Y or H.
Goals - Would love to end up as GC for a professional sports team (though I know there is no real likelihood of getting this, regardless of which school I attend). Would also be interested in doing non NYC biglaw, preferably California (have not heard back from Stanford). Also, I have been contemplating academia (not fully committed, and am probably unlikely to do it) but would like to keep this door open just in case.
Edit: Just got my award from NYU. Did not think it would be as high as it is, and I had essentially ruled it out. The award is near Vanderbilt status, despite not being a named scholarship. Does this change most people’s votes?
Yale. If you get into Stanford at a similar price this decision gets much harder given your stated goals.
I know a couple of people in sports law, feel free to PM me.
I voted Yale, because it gives you pretty much maximum flexibility and is reasonably priced.
On another note, I always wonder about the bolded. This is not necessarily about the OP because he’s stated other goals and because YLS is realtively cheap here, but I’ve never met anyone IRL who says they’re hoping to be a law professor, but I see it on tls all the time. I theorize that this is often a way to try to get people to talk them into picking an exorbitantly priced higher ranked school.
To be fair, I guess maybe the kind of people that are getting into HYS are probably more likely to be drawn to academia.
To me it’s more if you want to be an academic you know it. That’s the primary if not only goal. You don’t casually want to be an academic or have it as a “I dunno, maybe!” fallback.