Architecture?

<p>Your GPA is not great enough to get into a major law school, I can tell, especially as an architecture major,can you against some HYP people who have almost perfect GPA and LSAT, and still, got deferred?</p>

<p>I hate to tell you this, you might change your major to other design fields, but not laws.</p>

<p>yeah well i plan on switching (or double majoring) to poli sci to prepare me for law school....and i havent even taken my LSAT yet(apparently that is like 80% of the addmissions process)....So im not too worried about it at this point. Plus most of those people with 4.0s are either in community college or majoring in something easy like communications.</p>

<p>im sure youll get in to law school, but then why did you take architecture as your major? didnt you know what was in store for you?</p>

<p>What about a Harvard person who gets 4.0 and majoring in political science?
Law school is not like that easy to get in!
In my opinion, only Harvard, Yale, Stanford etc. count as true law schools.</p>

<p>I took architecture because I love it...but I have lost my passion for it now. Without getting too detailed... the profession just doesnt really appeal to me because it doesnt seem like anyone builds much, architects are primarily consultans and contractors determine the final shape of a building. The hard work is not an issue (im not dillusional, I know law students work just as hard), it's just why put myself through hell anymore for something I have no more desire to do? </p>

<p>Fallingwater, as for people at harvard w/4.0s (by the way who do you know in this situation?), there's nothing I can do to beat them so I cant worry too much about that. And i think we are on different terms because i am not limiting my law school search to three schools, I couldnt afford an ivy anyways.</p>

<p>well....good luck with law school. im sure youll get into the one of your choice, rather than an <em>ivy</em>, because we all know theyre not always the best for everybody.</p>

<p>The person graduated with 4.0 at Harvard is my SAT teacher's roommate. This guy almost became a Rhode Scholar, but unfortunately he did not.
My SAT teacher and him both applied Harvard Law School, and he got in, my teacher did not, because he was major in literature, that's sad.</p>

<p>Yeah that is too bad...i would think that a lit. major would be well equiped to attend harvard law, guess not. Did this other individual go to harvard as an undergrad? Did they really not get in just because of their major? or did they just have a lower gpa/LSAT?</p>

<p>My SAT teacher got 3.92 GPA and 178 on LSAT, I think this is not a strong score for Harvard. And the most important thing is that he cannot pay for the tuition.
The good thing for him is that he will go to Oxford next summer. Maybe that Law School is much cheaper than Harvard, and offered him scholarship.</p>

<p>Major is a big issue here, even at Harvard, most people who get in were in political science and philosophy.</p>

<p>Yeah I understand that and that is why i plan on double majoring or switching my major sometime soon. I actually just found out that Ohio State has been ranked the #4 political science school in the nation....but i'm planning on transfering.</p>

<p>asbuckeye07, you are something!!!!!!!!!!</p>

<p>Ohio State is the best State University, I think you can do it!</p>

<p>haha, thanks. On a side note...im not sure if you are actually an arch major, but i just got done with my final reviews(been up for 48+ hours) and boy do i feel greeeeeeeeeat.</p>

<p>I will be an arch major, but I am little bit confusing now.
I don't know, I love architecture so much as well as literature and arch history. Yale is the only school in the US offers all of three majors for undergrad, that's the school I am thinking about.</p>

<p>Yeah yale is one of the best architecture schools. My studio instructor and her husband (also a studio instructor) went to yale and they loved it.</p>

<p>Yale people are limited in academic field, I also met an instructor at USC last summer. She went to MIT for undergrad. and Yale for MArch.
The only Yale Graduate architects I can think about are Norman Foster and Maya Lin, but Harvard got a bunch of big names, especially years ago when Gropius was there.</p>

<p>Do you mean to say that yale alumni are limited TO the academic field? Dontmean to be rude but I couldnt understand your post. Well im sure that people who graduate from yale have a wide range of opportunities, a large number of them just chose to teach architecture(a very competitive and rewarding job in it'sown right). On that note the two studio instructors of mine I told you about also own their own firm together in addition to their work at the school.</p>

<p>But most Yalies are devoting themselves to academic field.
I always wonder that Yale and Princeton people are true scholars.
When you meet those the GSD people, they basically think that Princeton and Yale graduates are nothing compare to their shinning diploma.
This is true, in LA,the GSD people have more opprtunities than Yalies or other graduates.</p>

<p>Yeah I guess you're right, you would know better than me. Don't you think there's more to it then which ivy you go to? I mean pleanty of other schools out there give you as good of an education for a fraction of the cost. Plus architecture is much too personal of a disipline to be able to single out specific institutions as the "best", its about what YOU as the designer are able to do. But if you have the means I can see the desire to go to an ivy...by the way, i'm suprised you havent mentioned Columbia, my top chocie for a M.arch.</p>