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Rejection from Stanford and admission from Harvard

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Sylvester

Joined: 09 Mar 2008
Posts: 22
Rejection from Stanford and admission from Harvard
Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:40 AM
Is this possible?
Is there any case like this?
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nriattorney

Joined: 12 Nov 2007
Posts: 234
Rejection from Stanford and admission from Harvard
Wed Mar 12, 2008 04:16 AM
it is not something very uncommon. there are many situations where one finds rejected for a lower level and still selected for the higher. The competition and selection method of two schools is likely to be different.

[Edited 12 Mar 2008 by nriattorney]
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The Counsel

Joined: 09 Dec 2007
Posts: 148
Rejection from Stanford and admission from Harvard
Wed Mar 12, 2008 03:20 PM
Hope you are right!

[Edited 12 Mar 2008 by The Counsel]
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Sylvester

Joined: 09 Mar 2008
Posts: 22
Rejection from Stanford and admission from Harvard
Wed Mar 12, 2008 03:36 PM
Thank you!
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jasonjb

Joined: 19 Oct 2007
Posts: 41
Rejection from Stanford and admission from Harvard
Wed Mar 12, 2008 05:11 PM
This absolutely makes sense.

Stanford accepts 30 LLMs, while Harvard accepts many more. Simple maths which has nothing to do with the ranking of the school. If it were based on rankings, NYU wouldn't accept 40-50 per cent of applicants.

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Jasonjb
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Gloss

Joined: 13 Oct 2007
Posts: 50
Rejection from Stanford and admission from Harvard
Wed Nov 19, 2008 05:38 AM
Stanford has been better ranked than Harvard much more often than the opposite. The schools are now tied, but look at a 10 year ranking. Stanford accepts less than 30 LLMs, while Harvard accepts 150. Its is much more common to find Harvard students rejected by Stanford than the opposite. I understand Harvard is more famous outside the US, because of movies and etc. Harvard is an awesome school. But Stanford and Yale are smaller law schools with a very small rate of admissions.
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