who studies/ studied here in Harvard school of law?

Question

how were you ab;e to enter and is it true that some students had suicide attempts? how true? how was the first lesson and what is it about? thanks!

do you know how many bucks does a person need to enter HLS?

Answer 1

I didn't go to Harvard, but I have gotten degrees at top universities and I did graduate from law school. One is able to enter with very high grades and scores - that is really the only way to get in. As to suicide attempts, that is true of any rigorous program; probably no more true at Harvard than at any other good law or other professional school. I haven't seen that personally, but I have known students to have psychological break-downs in graduate school.

As far as the "first lesson", that depends on which of your courses you have first. The first-year law curriculum is pretty standard, and you take courses like contracts, torts, property, and constitutional law to begin with.

Answer 2

Harvard does not require, or even offer, constitutional law in the first year. One may elect to take it after the first year, by taking one or both of the divided Con Law courses offered (one is limited to First Amendment)

I've never heard of any suicide attempts, and I doubt there are many here as compared to more competitive graduate programs.

Although there is a lot of hard work to keep up, that is with the goal of being at the top of your class, or avoiding embarassment in front of your peers. Since it is very rare for anyone to get a C, letalone fail, the pressures are self-imposed. You could do a bare minimum and still graduate and get a good job. That doesn't sound like the kind of pressure that causes people to kill themselves.

The first courses are going to depend on random assignment to a section, which will determine when you take which required courses. Here at HLS, the first year courses are Contracts, Torts, Property, Civil Procedure, writing, International Law, and legislation (these last two are new this year). My first assignment were reading exerpts from court opinions in contract law, but they were introductory readings and fairly straightforward.