Word: hls
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They don't use four-color click pens, but listening to the myths at the Harvard Law School (HLS) suggests law students may be just as uptight as their medical school colleagues...
...rumor is only one of a number of similar horror stories that paint HLS as a place full of backstabbing students concerned only with getting ahead, an unusually hard and arbitrary grading system and faculty more concerned with their own academic work than interacting with students...
Most students acknowledge that a cutthroat reputation figures prominently in widely read guide-book descriptions of Harvard's law program and serve as a basis for HLS's poor showing in the quality of life component of the U.S. News & World Report's annual law school rankings. In those rankings--which administrators and students love to hate--Yale University's law program has claimed the number one spot for some time...
Indeed this sort of mythic lore about the law school has been a thorn in the side of HLS administrators for more than two decades. Thanks in part to commercially-successful works like One L. by Scott F. Turow (HLS '78), or The Paper Chase, a book-turned-movie about the darker side of HLS, Harvard has struggled with the notion that one of its most prized graduate schools is less than perfect...
Some others contend that the perception of HLS as anything less than a top-notch facility is merely a misperception--and a work of rumor--and fails to reflect the school's reputation in the academic legal field and among potential employers...