<p>I have to say I'd rather take my chances being one of the 55 from Duke than trying to be the ONE or ZERO from KS...</p>
<p>He still hasn't answered whether that was a URM applicant or not...</p>
<p>Are you serious? Who said they would rather go to Kansas State over Yale? Are you posting on the right thread? Are you drunk?</p>
<p>I'm going to ignore the personal attacks...</p>
<p>WAS the KS state grad a URM applicant (to Harvard)?</p>
<p>...whitey!</p>
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Are you serious? Who said they would rather go to Kansas State over Yale? Are you posting on the right thread? Are you drunk?
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<p>You might want to see posts #13 and #15. Don't feel bad, though. There are people who overlook much more important things when giving life advice. So you missing a couple of arguments and the gist of a post seems like no big deal.</p>
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Ha ha...hostile crowd, huh kk.
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Ha ha... apparently when somebody tries to prevent the misleading of an OP, they become the hostile poster. I just posted numbers and quotes.
You are lying to a HS kid that it would be better to not go to Yale straight out of HS.
Oh, how mistaken you are.
I don't know the OP but I can't stand the though of people getting bad advice and regreting their actions for the rest of their lives.</p>
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Maybe if I went to city college and lived with my parents I would've had the time to spend on it.
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By the tone of your post, it sounds like researching where your undergrad degree puts you in terms of further education is the whimsical privilidge of lazy spoiled kids? Also, I haven't seen my parents in 3 years and I am putting myself through school. HTH.</p>
<p>What I wanted to convey for the original poster:
It matters where you go for undergrad if you want to go to grad/Law/Med school and don't let anybody tell you otherwise.
In that sense and in the light of Yale being insanely picky about who they let in as a transfer, I would say don't go to GW ("hypothetically").</p>
<p>I haven't seen my parents in 3 years and I am putting myself through school.</p>
<p>That would make sense. So, I guess getting bad grades in high school didnt really work at getting back at your parents? It also shows in your spelling. </p>
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apparently when somebody tries to prevent the misleading of an OP, they become the hostile poster. I just posted numbers and quotes.
You are lying to a HS kid that it would be better to not go to Yale straight out of HS.</p>
<p>Is that what Im doing? Your reading skills must not be college level either because Ive never posted anything close to that. </p>
<p>I don't know the OP but I can't stand the though of people getting bad advice and regreting their actions for the rest of their lives.</p>
<p>Noble, but you should do us all a favor and spend some more time on grammar and spelling. </p>
<p>By the tone of your post, it sounds like researching where your undergrad degree puts you in terms of further education is the whimsical privilidge of lazy spoiled kids? </p>
<p>No, the good students looked into it in high school; we already know where we stand. Im not sure where the privilege (NOT privilidge) part of your post comes in? I can see how this may be news to you but there are non-privileged kids who get into top tier schools. But I dont want discourage your research. By all means, please continue. Keep searching into where you can get in through the back door. </p>
<p>In that sense and in the light of Yale being insanely picky about who they let in as a transfer, I would say don't go to GW ("hypothetically").</p>
<p>I would agree. Whats your point? I havent seen a post where someone disagreed with that. I read a post where someone made a suggestion and said to research it and think about it. But I guess we dont read as well as you do.</p>
<p>I read up to the point where you attack my spelling and reading skills.
There both below the college level, you are right.
How did Yale and Stanford accept me is beyond me.</p>
<p>As for my mistakes - I am not infallible. When it matters I don't make them and that seems to be working for me. HTH. </p>
<p>P.S. I was the valedictorian of my HS.
I love the way you talk **** about people's childhood. You are a beautiful person.</p>
<p>Sure you did. It must be a nice world you live in. A valedictorian that hangs out on transfer college chat boards for "life advise" but got into Yale and Stanford out of HS. Go sell crazy somewhere else, one<em>big</em>lie.</p>
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There are people who overlook much more important things when giving life advice.
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That's right. With a "c".</p>
<p>LMFAO...dude gets life advice on cc. I guess if I were him I would too!</p>
<p>Seen in all folks, I'm OUT!</p>
<p>Thewrigs, apparently you are an enlightened man. Aren't you the one that discovered that "meat is muscle"?
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<p>But when you think about it, you never see diagrams of human anatomy that show fat and meat. It's always fat and muscle. Never a meat layer. Want proof?
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These numbers are not consistent as nspeds stated.</p>
<p>Harvard, 2004, 12 admits/63 applicants, average gpa: 3.93, lsat: 171
Harvard, 2003, 3 admits/64 applicants, average gpa: 3.98, lsat: 171
From 5% to 19%, four times as many admits from Berkeley.
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<p>The LSAT and GPA numbers are quite constistent. That they remain so even though the admit numbers change so fantastically only helps my point: bottom line, you are going to need at least a 3.9 and a 170 from Cal if you want a chance at HLS coming straight from graduation.</p>
<p>With a 3.5something at California Community College, gabe, you should be setting your target a couple notches downward, anyways.</p>
<p>Nspeds, you sound like a genuine hater. If Gabe wants HLS then he/she should try for it and if they dont make it, so be it. Who do you think you are trying to tell someone else what is or isnt a law school for them to reach for?</p>
<p>He can reach for whatever law school he wants; however, one would be foolish to expect anything positive from the holy trinity with anything below a 3.7.</p>
<p>Edit: I am stating the facts. It is better to be realistic than to prettify words for the sake of coddling.</p>
<p>Last I checked the people who make the decision on who has the chance to get in to HLS were in Cambidge, Mass and not in BouGie-town University</p>
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Last I checked the people who make the decision on who has the chance to get in to HLS were in Cambidge, Mass and not in BouGie-town University
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<p>...and last I checked, the people who made the decision set the 25th/75th percentile GPA of admitted students at a 3.68/3.92. Unfortunately, our friend here clearly falls quite below the 25th percentile, and any sensible applicant knows that there must be something significant about an applicant with a 3.68 for Harvard to admit him or her, such as a prestigious fellowship. </p>
<p>He can aim all he wants. I do not care. Whatever it is, the numbers tell the story, and he is not a character in it.</p>
<p>Edit: And it is spelled "Camb*r*idge"; that is, C-a-m-b-r-i-d-g-e.</p>
<p>Also, I do not think Cal offers any fellowships (prestigious or not) for undergraduate philosophy majors.</p>
<p>Note that law school admissions is quite unlike undergraduate admissions, so I do not expect you to know much about the former, given that you are a senior in high school. LS admissions is a numbers-game (except for Stanford and Yale). Put simply: if you do not have the numbers, you do not have a chance.</p>
<p>First of all, this has nothing to do with me. I was pointing out that those numbers are extremely misleading; I think it's important that people realize that. You even mentioned yourself, nspeds, the much more dependable numbers, Harvard's overall averages.</p>
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'Averages' for so few admits are inherently dubious. I noted how the Berkeley survey sample size is ridiculously small (and of course based off a self-selecting methodology); that's more than enough to decide that we should not make conclusions from them.</p>
<p>I must say, I'm honored however, that the great one, Nspeds would say I should set my sights ONLY "a couple notches downward" from HLS!</p>
<p>Nspeds is the funny guy now huh? Yes I do know how much more objective LS admissions are to that of under-grad, but I'm pretty sure it is a little pretentious of you to assume that HLS is too high a goal for someone just because of their first 2 years of college. And considering your background, I wouldnt have expected you to say such discouraging comments</p>
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'Averages' for so few admits are inherently dubious. I noted how the Berkeley survey sample size is ridiculously small (and of course based off a self-selecting methodology); that's more than enough to decide that we should not make conclusions from them.
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<p>For Harvard, I think it is quite large.</p>
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that the great one, Nspeds would say I should set my sights ONLY
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<p>Oh please, if you wish to complain about my assumed stature on this board, I need only direct you to the complaints of a similar assumption on your part.</p>
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<p>Considering my background? Sure, I came from a pretty obscure college; however, that misses the point. I came from there with a 3.92. If gabe came from CCC with a 3.9 or a 4.0, like a lot of these other CCers, I would not be saying this!</p>
<p>Bottom line: a 3.5 is not going to cut it for HYS. Heck, it probably will not cut it for the top 10. If Gabe wants a shot, he need straight As for the next two years. Knowing No</p>