I went to UofI at Urbana-Champaign. I don't think they ever were known for their JD or MD programs, let along both. They were strong at business, engineering, and .... agriculture of all things.
Sex Panther you're the biggest boss. Yale is a massive accomplishment. However, my WR skills are top notch...meet me on the turf!!
I went to two of those schools. Illinois is considered to have a good law school. I know nothing of their medical school. UC of course is elite in both. If you are in at Yale though, well, you have nice problems to have. UC is on the south side. shaky neighborhoods a couple miles in any direction. nice campus and architecture. like dabullz said, illinois is considered elite in engineering and agriculture. good in law. you will be living surrounded by farmland though. i didn't like that so much. i've never been to southern. its no yale.
I didn't attend U of C but lived nearby for several years. Sure there is ghetto within a couple of miles in any direction but Hyde Park is a terrific place to live and the campus, for a school in an urban environment, is second to none. Discovering thinks like the Japanese gardens behind the Museum of Science and Industry and the leftover gilded statues and trenches along the boulevard that date back to The Colombian Exposition and the book stores and quirky restaurants is a trip and although I had long since graduated from law school (IIT Chicago-Kent) and practicing as a trial attorney, I met quite a number of professors, law students, philosophy graduates, economics eggheads and so forth and I miss those conversations and the quality of discussion with brilliant people. Northwestern is a great school and its campus is even more beautiful, stretching along the lakefront in Evanston. I tool my LSAT there and had a good number of friends who attended (I did my undergraduate work at Loyola). You really can't go wrong transferring to either school but U of C would be the closest to your experience at Yale, by a mile. Either way, I think the move would be smart because MD/JD's are highly, highly sought after by silk stocking law firms with litigation groups.
The MD is particularly good for chasing ambulances, and the JD is particularly good for what you do once you catch the ambulances. Anyhow, MD/JDs seem really rare. This WWW page estimates the total number to be between 1500 and 6000, with 20 new ones joining the american college of legal medicine a year. http://md-jd.info/jd-md.htm You'll make some serious coin, no doubt.
Just to be slightly contrarian... you oughta think about the life you want to have in broad terms. Do you want to work 100 hours a week? For how long? If the goal is to make money, and you like one or both of those fields, think about whether you'd actually like the combination of them. In my experience, people, even very smart ones, have fuck all clue about what the actual work of their professions entails when they're choosing one.
