Harvard and Yale are the perfect rivals. Students, academics and writers compare each and every aspect of the universities from endowment size to football teams.
The two law schools, ranked the two best in the nation, are no exception.
Harvard Law School (HLS) is bigger. Yale Law School (YLS) is more selective. Harvard uses the traditional grading system. Yale grades students pass/fail. Harvard is more practical, Yale more academic.
The comparisons go on and on.
But, despite the differences, most people say students cannot go wrong at either one.
"Yale's strengths are Harvard's weaknesses, and Harvard's strengths are Yale's weaknesses," says Sarah E. Wald, currently a Harvard assistant provost, who graduated from YLS in 1978 and served as HLS dean of students from 1987-92.
"At either place your going to get a great education and get a great job," she adds.
U.S. News & World Report, however, in its annual rankings of colleges and graduate schools has decided to make a judgement.
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