Hillbilly Elegy
financial aid package Yale offered exceeded my wildest dreams. In my first year, it was nearly a full ride. That wasn’t because ...
but not poverty level, either. That student would pay ten thousand for one of the less selective branch campuses of the Universi ...
for me than any other school. I spent the next few months getting ready to leave. My aunt and uncle’s friend got me that job at ...
four years in the Marines, the move to Columbus for college hadn’t seemed all that significant. I’d become an expert at leaving ...
“Yeah, he speaks at Yale all the time,” a friend told me. “His son is an undergraduate.” A few days after that, I nearly bumped ...
effectively placed you in direct competition with your classmates, our dean asked us during orientation to follow our passions, ...
aspiring civil rights attorney born a few minutes from Yale’s campus, and an extremely progressive lesbian with a fantastic sens ...
school an almost medieval feel. You’d even sometimes hear that we went to HLS (Hogwarts Law School). It’s telling that the best ...
were the brightest students in the world, and I did not qualify as such. But that didn’t end up being the case. Though there wer ...
the margin, “This is a vomit of sentences masquerading as a paragraph. Fix.” I heard through the grapevine that this professor t ...
for a sitting U.S. senator. Yet, for all of the joy and intrigue, Yale planted a seed of doubt in my mind about whether I belong ...
cocktail receptions and banquets that served as both professional networking and personal matchmaking events. I lived among newl ...
people at Yale Law School are like me. They may look like me, but for all of the Ivy League’s obsession with diversity, virtuall ...
came from a poorer background. Afterward, I told Jamil that we were probably the only people in the school who’d ever had to cle ...
I thought of them as fundamentally different. They still lived within walking distance of my house, sent their kids to the same ...
won’t be enough. It wasn’t just about the money or my relative lack of it. It was about people’s perceptions. Yale made me feel, ...
newest wars. In other words, I was an anomaly. That’s not exactly a bad thing. For much of that first year in law school, I reve ...
my law school admissions essay, knew about the formative experiences that shaped my life. At Yale, I decided to change that. I’m ...
realized how different I was from my classmates at Yale, I grew to appreciate how similar I was to the people back home. Most im ...
moment she told me her nephew went to Yale, I had to choose: Was I a Yale Law student, or was I a Middletown kid with hillbilly ...
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