On the whole, however, several people, bothcurrent and former students, say HLS' problems--oflarge classes, a distant faculty and a cutthroatatmosphere--simply mirror similar ones on theundergraduate level.
"To be fair, those are criticisms I think[apply to] Harvard College as well," Silverglatesays.
Still, some members of the HLS community saythe expense of conducting the McKinsey study mayoutweigh the benefits of the results.
"A lot of students share the sentiment that thelaw school is spending $1million to hire McKinseyto get what it could have gotten for free," Chansays.
And indeed others see the study as embodyingexactly what is wrong with the HLS administration:they hired a consultant rather than talkingdirectly to students.
"They could have split the million dollarsamong the students and gotten some really nicefeedback," Chan jokes