Hello everyone

I would like to hear from someone that got into Harvard LLM from Europe something more about his CV, grades and everything else that matters to get accepted to Harvard>

Mainly i want to hear about importance of the CV, and what you have in yours?

Thx

Use those 'discovery skills'...

1. Trawl facebook for Harvard J.D Classes of 20...

2. Here are some I prepared earlier

- https://www.facebook.com/groups/57104358519/
- https://www.facebook.com/groups/297709636972016/

3. Find people that are studying LLM and are from Europe in the group member list. Copy their names.

4. Go to http://www.linkedin.com.

5. Look them up and see their CVs!

You're welcome.

The school your graduated from will play a huge role in admissions.. of course, ranking and grade as well. Chances increase if your school is in the top 10.

<blockquote>The school your graduated from will play a huge role in admissions.. of course, ranking and grade as well. Chances increase if your school is in the top 10. </blockquote>

Not to be disrespectful but this is a bit of a useless statement considering the site is full of advice that contradicts your statement that "the school you graduate from will play a huge role".

Moreover, this wasn't what the OP was asking. OP was asking about CV's.

Okay! If you think so. Come to Cambridge and see schools students in llm program came from.

And yes, there are some here with pretty empty cvs.. Of course from top schools

<blockquote>Okay! If you think so. Come to Cambridge and see schools students in llm program came from.</blockquote>

Im definitely not saying you're wrong mate lol! I'm just saying that I think that you're overstating the importance of school rank being significant. I think it would have its part in the process, almost definitely.

(NB: The unmoderated nature of this site makes me skeptical of people on here who speak in definitives but cant verify that they have experienced the process for themselves or been successful for that matter).

Having posted a similar question to the OP on this site and having no-one give me a constructive answer, I went digging around and came up with a few good sources contradicting what you have concluded (and many others) through assumption. This included an amicus brief submitted by the Deans of Harvard and Yale in a US Supreme Court case.

I went to a top 8 law school here in Australia and I honestly don't think that this should put me above a candidate from a lesser school with excellent work experience. For me, the law school a candidate went to does not a good lawyer (or LLM student) make. Rank is rank, its a subjective measure (and yes, the Times Higher Education University rankings are subjective).

One person I have come to know in the Harvard LLM Class of 2013 is amazing. Good school, good grades, and amazing experience working in both non-for-profit sector (human rights) and commercial law - she is the complete package. Furthermore, she has described her LLM classmates and they are nothing like you have described.

However, if you're talking about Cambridge UK then I would definitely agree with you. It is a known fact that UK law schools look to prestige and grades ONLY. However, if this is Cambridge US then I disagree in part to what you have said.

I definitely don't mean to flame - I just simply don't believe that you know, for sure, what you're talking about.