Students also reported feeling alienated. If it burned to the ground, I wouldn't know for a week or two. Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren says the McKinsey survey helped build momentum for change. Harvard Law has addressed other student complaints by increasing financial aid and is now examining possible reforms of its grading scheme. Trent Anderson, vice president and publisher of Kaplan Inc., says top law school candidates enjoy greater choices today, since employers now look at law schools like Columbia and New York University as equals to Harvard, Stanford, and Yale.
Class size is a key issue.
N.C. But professors point out that Harvard's large student body and faculty allow it to offer more than 200 upper-level electives. Its first-year class of 550 students is nearly three times larger than entering classes at Yale or the University of Chicago, and twice as large as the University of Pennsylvania's. We're not a small, intimate law school. That's our competitive advantage. Rebecca Chang, a first-year student, will see major changes kick in at the nation s oldest law school next year.