Touring Columbia, NYU, Yale, and Harvard Law (vlog) | Journey to Law School
hey what up everyone tyler here welcome back to my channel or welcome for the first time if you're new today's video we're gonna be looking at a vlog that i shot when i went to the east coast looking at four different schools it's a continuation of the last vlog so i'll link that up here um which looked at uva in georgetown and this one we're going to be looking at columbia nyu harvard and yale but yeah and so we're going to give hopefully some overviews of the campuses and then at the end per usual i'll give a review on the vibe the area and the campus there are chapters if there's a school you want to skip to but yeah be sure to like and subscribe if you enjoy comment if you have any questions about the schools or with your favorite school and let's get into it all right good morning it's 5 30. it's 5 30 in the morning i woke up early i'm gonna get dropped off of the train we're gonna leave it at six so i can get the 6 30 train and then i'm taking the train from here from richmond all the way up to new york like a seven hour train ride and yeah and then we'll be in our next city checking out more schools right and you did right brother missing someone all right so just got off the metro in brooklyn staying at the front here and i'm going to shower eat because i've only eaten some almonds today and then do some work and i think we're just watching rupaul's drag race today so it's a chill day um and we'll likely be doing some school tours coming up probably tomorrow what up everyone so it's friday morning i just finished most of my work so i think i'm gonna shower run up to columbia to try and see if i can see around their campus um and then i know i'm going to be meeting up with some friends for drinks tonight so that's the plan i'm going to try and see colombia today before it's like raining this weekend it's about an hour away from where i'm at and then nyu probably depending on the weather maybe sunday morning or monday morning should be fine either way it's not too far or even honestly if i do it monday i train out monday evening um i should be able to see it and just pop out see it and then get back on the train and go so those are the schools we're gonna be checking out while we're here but it's been really great so far the weather is wild definitely the vibes are so different from virginia um but yeah so i'm gonna do that get ready and we'll head out all right time to head out but always bring your headphones okay this is a dramatic change of events it was not supposed to start raining until like nine tonight it's so it's like porn so um i don't know what we're gonna do i mean you can see the school a little bit from here so that's cool uh area's nice like what the [ __ ] i'll show you what's going on okay so this is what is happening right now but here's we made it so um it says it's supposed to stop in like 30 minutes so i might just stand under this little archway for 30 minutes and then hope it stops and uh get to go walk around but kind of funny i don't know it is what it is it's just rain so at least it's not super hot there's not much you can do about it okay yeah so it's done it was like 10 minutes uh and like now the rain is now the rain is gone so here we are we made it and uh i'll show you all around a little bit so this is like the big dome building i think they have their like orientation or commencement or something going on right now but look at how nice the sky is down here and that's where it was raining i'm pretty sure that's an orientation group for the 1l law students lol so kind of funny that i'm here right now all right so i made it to out front of the law library um yeah i mean this part of campus is really really cool it's obviously very in the city which i think similar to any of the schools in new york would be except i mean new york city not um like necessarily cornell or something but yeah i mean it's really really cool i like the vibe it's definitely a little loud but i'm assuming all the windows are like double paned and stuff and i don't know there's something like really electric about this campus that's kind of cool but in a different way than georgetown with um all the political stuff going on there so yeah i mean it just feels a lot more hustle bustle but really really cool so i kind of like that look at all these pigeons look at all those chickens all right so can't go inside um because i don't have a student id so that's whatever it's totally fine you know we say virtual tours so all right but we're gonna head back to brooklyn right now and get a drink of some friends uh yeah so that's columbia for the day i'll do a little review somewhere it's a little quieter when i'm back home tomorrow okay so we went to a bar up on a roof and apparently it's the first day it opened but then their credit card machine was down and we didn't have to pay for anything so make sure to uh what was this place called yeah tippy martin no i don't know what it was called i'll put the link in the description if you're in new york go here all right you guys it was called clinton hall go to clinton hall sorry thank you for the free drinks i'm at a bar in brooklyn what up everyone it's been amazing i love it 12 seconds later i'm so hungover i haven't been out drinking in a minute all right so i showered i also realized i never really did a little like thoughts on columbia um i mean colombia's campus was crazy i have never been to a school like that um so it was like just really stunning and i talked to a few people that are just like friends of friends down here they're talking about how it kind of feels like you get away from the hustle and bustle of like manhattan there just because it is like it's on its own separate campus and i mean there's like these big gates you walk through which is also kind of nice because i feel like if i'm going to or leaving class i'll be able to like step off campus you know and kind of leave whatever i'm working on there so just for like mental health and like life balance that is very appealing that's just initial thoughts i'll do like the i'll do the ratings at the end about the vibe the area and the campus in more detail i really want to get into the new york schools i mean i want to get into like all my schools but i'm going to um let my phone charge a little bit so i can record get on the train and then get a coffee and walk around nyu's law school so let's go do that we made it got some coffee thank god so we're just walking around the area i also forgot my glasses all right it's probably not the best place to film because there's a bus but just like the other schools i can't really go in or see anything right now but yeah i mean it's like essentially just popped into the city next to uh washington square park um so hung out there had some coffee okay so it's time for me to get some pizza get on the train to head to the amtrak so i need to get in to manhattan from brooklyn um yeah and then we're heading up to connecticut so it's probably gonna be dark most that train so uh i might not really film anything but um yeah if not and then tomorrow we're gonna be in new haven just for a little bit and then train up to boston and yeah we just keep it pushing so we're going to connecticut tonight y'all let's go to yale so so all right so i just got to the hotel i'm staying at a marriott so you know the vibes yeah it's nine o'clock gonna facetime i facetime my boyfriend this is the bathroom this is the bed one king that big freaking chair let's see if i can show you the view it's pretty dark okay oh popeyes um that's all you can see maybe we'll see something else in the morning yeah so i just got here got to connecticut we officially made it we'll see you all in the morning check to make some snickers because why not and also um i think there's breakfast in the morning before 9 30. so as long as i get up before then so as long as i set my alarms for am and not pm like i accidentally did today it should be good but i'm gonna clock out for the night see you tomorrow also if you've been enjoying the vlog so far be sure to like and subscribe and also comment what's been your favorite place um so far in your opinion yeah see you at breakfast okay good morning everyone so i just showered um i'm going to go eat some breakfast even though my stomach hurts a little bit that is what it is um but yeah so we'll see yale it should be just like a little bit that way from the hotel and then and then i'll do some work and then we take the train to boston tonight yeah you can see um the lighting's a little weird in here but you can see out of the window now so i'll show you the view it's like nothing crazy but it's supposed to be somewhere over there so i've essentially finished uh most of my work for today i'm gonna have like another call or something um i'm just gonna work on my personal statement because applications open uh tomorrow or something i don't know holy [ __ ] so i want everything to be i think it's in like a much better place than it was even just a week ago i'm gonna keep working on my personal statement um i think my resume is pretty much good additional essays and stuff i'll have to see once they get posted live because i won't know until they're there yeah i think i've done most of what i can do but i'm gonna work from the lobby a little bit and then head out to the law school this afternoon and then get some lunch uh because my training's not till seven so you know we got some time all right so we're walking to the law school it's kind of funny because like this whole town is just like a little like college yale town but we'll head over um and then go get some lunch and work on my application materials more and that's what we'll do today all right so we're sitting out front i'm not gonna lie it's really weird to be here especially not as a student or anything to just like look around yeah the imposter syndrome just like hits so fast and it's like why would i even apply here i would never get in i don't know but yeah it's really interesting it's definitely it feels like a campus i mean the whole city feels like a campus so so different from new york i don't know not bad right it's the best law school in the country so all right so my train is in like two hours to boston got a recommendation to go to donut crazy and i [ __ ] with donuts so we're going to do that kill some time at the hotel and go to the train pretty good but uh i also feel like i might be sick it's a lot of sugar but it was really good all right so i made it to the train station in new haven not gonna lie in new haven it was weird especially i think just being here by myself like i don't know anyone here i don't know what to do and it's quite literally the best law school in the country so i'm like what am i doing here you know not that i couldn't get in i don't know i think everyone should try if they have a really good chance but it's just numbers at the end of the day right it's like it's whatever yeah i don't know just a much different vibe very very weird but yeah i'm excited to go to boston i'm staying with a friend there that'll be a nice way to end the trip i've been gone for like two weeks so i'm like ready i think i'm ready for it to wind down um but it has been really really good i'll give some more insight on uh just my thoughts about the different schools and the locations because obviously what vibes with me might not vibe with you but i'm just gonna get on the train i'll get in the boss around 10 i'll probably get to my friends around 10 30 11. yeah it's been so crazy so all right so we made it to boston i'm walking from the metro to my friend's house um so that's probably it for today it's about ten o'clock um yeah but we'll be checking out harvard while we're here possibly boston university which fun fact is one this goes out i mean last year um so if you're just joining on this journey i am reapplying so yeah have a good night see you in the morning all right good morning i'm on my way to pick up breakfast and then gonna do some work applications are officially open today it's september 1st so i guess that's exciting but it's probably going to be raining later today sorry it's like the loudest street on the planet right now there's like a large car and a leaf blower probably gonna be raining later so i'm not sure how much i'll actually be able to show you but i'll give you as much of a rundown as i can and obviously show you what i can so crazy all right so as you can see it's really raining like very hard um but we've we've ubered to the law school and i'll show you what i can but don't expect much so this feels right i feel uh spiritually attached to this place all right i'm on the hunt to find the tree that elle woods ran outside to class to if we find that tree we'll count this as a successful tour not that it matters so so all right we could not find the tree but that's fine we're now under this cover uh because it smells it smells like fish sticks here though so um we're gonna go get food and drinks and i'll give you guys thoughts later um but that essentially is all the schools we're gonna see so we did it uh yeah and i'll give you guys just thoughts when i'm back in san diego so and don't forget to like and subscribe all right so we are heading to the subway to head back to the airport to go back to san diego now so bye boston all right so that was all the schools i'm obviously back in san diego so i'm gonna do a quick run through of the overview because i did talk a fair amount you saw i think a good amount of footage of each of the schools but first let's start with columbia so colombia's vibe i really love the vibe of columbia i thought it was great probably one of the most gorgeous campuses i've been to um just in general so yeah i really love that school really like the way it's set up in the city it just has a very scholarly vibe to it so i think it would be really really easy to focus on courses and then also it's um you know in new york which brings me to the area and the area is just like awesome you know if you like large cities i think new york has something for everyone it could be a little overwhelming if that's not um what you're looking for but also new york is the largest legal market in the us so um that's definitely a bonus yeah i mean the campus i would honestly give it like a nine or ten out of ten like even though it was like pouring rain and maybe that had something to do with it the nostalgia and like bromance of the campus but um really loved it so uh vibe overall i'd give it like like a nine out of ten and then the area i really love new york i'd give it a nine out of ten and i think job wise um there's a ton of great options yeah on campus we'll give it a nine out of ten which so columbia is like the highest rated school i think right now but it also could be a little bias take everything i say with a grain of salt just because i really enjoyed my time in new york on this trip so you know that is what it is and then nyu is next so nyu the vibe similar you know the area is obviously like kind of similar because it's situated in new york but it is in a different part it's near washington square park um which is kind of nice you know you can go out into the park but it is a little overwhelming sometimes when you step right out of class and um there's just like a bunch of people at the park whereas columbia was a little separated but the vibe of nyu i definitely give it like an eight out of ten really liked it seems you know like a great place to go to school love all the brick seems like i don't know like there's a lot of other students too so it's kind of a nice mix because a lot of nyu's campus is in that whole like washington square park area and then the area is going to be similar to colombia i'm going to give it a 9 out of 10.
like new york i think is just great even though it is in a different part of new york and you could probably live in brooklyn if you're going to nyu where you most likely would have to live in manhattan for colombia so that is a difference depending on what type of commute you're down to deal with especially when it's like cold and the trains are breaking down and all that type of stuff and then campus-wise i mean i like that it does open up into a park but it is a public park so it does have a little um it feels a little more integrated in the city so i'm just going to give an 8 out of 10 for that reason just because i do really like the campuses that have felt a little separate so i can leave the campus leave all of my legal studies there at the end of the day and focus on my personal life when i go home and my relationship so those are just personal preferences though you know like i said comment below if you agree or not and then heading to yale so yale was definitely a weird one for me because i was there by myself and it is the best law school in the country you know so um like i said i just felt a little out of place just because i don't know if anyone assumes they'll get in or deserves to be there and like and deserves to be there right it's a school as far as the vibe goes i mean if you're really into college towns i think it's great like in new haven it feels like the only thing that really matters there is yale um and not much else so for me i would give it a seven out of ten like um that's not super the experience i am looking for but you know the education you would get there and the people you'd meet is amazing area i mean it's kind of similar to vibe it does feel very scholastic and the campus itself is like it looks like a castle and like you can't even see the common area courtyard lawn unless you're a current student who has access to that so that was a little weird because i almost felt like i was just outside the citadel like trying to scope out what i could so for area i'll give it um i mean i'll give it a 7 out of 10 as well because you could take a train to a larger city if you wanted but you know it's not immediately accessible so that's something to keep in mind the campus i mean the campus is stunning like the school itself was so so cool and like very old-timey and like you could just feel like the history of the school there um so i'll give that an eight out of ten like i love the campus it was really cool and then finally harvard so harvard was really fun honestly i thought it was a good mix in between new york the vibe so i mean i was in cambridge not necessarily in boston when i stayed to visit because that's where my friend lives and that's where harvard is so you know i liked it it was kind of rainy which also was kind of nice like it made it feel similar to columbia like a little romantic and like it's like i was in a movie except there was a lot of construction but that is what it is um but there was a lot of really good food it seemed like a nice atmosphere at least for me so i'll give it an 8 out of 10. and then the area i mean boston seems great um it is also close to new york and other cities but it seems like there's a lot of things to do there there's a lot of places to eat there's a lot of things to explore which matters to me because at the end of the day i'm moving with my partner there and i want them to feel like the city is just as much theirs it is as it is mine and i feel like that can totally happen in boston so i'm giving the area an 8 out of 10 as well and the campus was awesome like honestly i it could be because of the rain again but it felt almost like a mix between colombia and nyu like it felt separate enough but still integrated in to the city if that makes sense like you could just walk off and go somewhere if you wanted but when you're on campus it feels like you're on a campus you know so yeah so i give the campus an 8 out of 10 as well very solid great school you know all the schools i'm seeing are awesome and i'd be happy to go to any of them so yeah if you have other schools too that you're checking out comment them down below thank you so much for watching this video yeah but like and subscribe it's been super fun seeing your dms and responding to people and good luck to everyone who's taking the lsat in november wishing everyone the best of luck this process can kind of suck so i made this channel to one i didn't see a lot of queer representation on you know legal youtube and also as a non-traditional student just wanted to give you know different perspective on things and i'm a reapplicant so i don't know like i feel like there's a lot of things i was looking for on youtube that i wasn't finding so hopefully these videos are helpful whether you're a reapplicant or kjd or non-traditional whatever hopefully they're just like down to earth and chill and don't stress you out because i know the process is stressful so yeah i hope you enjoyed and thank you so much and i'll see you in the next video
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