My daughter & special HS session @ Stanford Law - update!

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44. On the other hand, DON'T get obsessed with Harvard

My younger daughter applied, was treated shabbily by the admissions team, and was basically insulted by them. She ended up happy as a clam in college Washington, DC, then went to a so-called "second tier" law school in New York, who gave her a "diversity" scholarship, since she is German. At age 31, she became the youngest partner ever at a major international law firm based in New York (she works out of their Frankfurt office), and now makes several multiples of what I do, will probably be a multi-millionaire before age 40, juggling motherhood and her job without coming close to burning out.

Her firm's head office in NYC sends over recent grads from Harvard Law and Yale Law to do internships. She tells me they are often stuck-up, useless snobs with a lousy work ethic, poor legal work in poor English, and even worse German. They think, mistakenly, that flashing their fancy diplomas is a substitute for being good at their jobs. They are shocked to find out that it is not.

So don't think that a "name" school is a must. She'll do best where she fits in best.