<p>I actually flew there to have JR sign it the day he called.</p>
<p>Thanks for your response. Could you also share with us the extent of your extracurricular involvement? I understand that GPA and LSAT play a huge role in admissions, but I doubt that even stellar GPA and LSAT score would get you in just by themselves…? Also, how important is it to be somehow unique (beside stats)? And do you have any tips for getting good recommendation letters?</p>
<p>College: Not into feeding the ■■■■■■.</p>
<p>Artinka: I feel like my extracurriculars were pretty standard. Research, law internship, a few competitive extracurrics, and a relatively unique one. I don’t feel like my extracurriculars were very exceptional overall. Stellar GPA and LSAT will get you in. As for LORs, I was in a pinch. If I had to do it all over again, I’d pick a Prof I liked and take a bunch of classes with them, do well, and then ask them if they’d be comfortable writing one for you before your app cycle starts.</p>
<p>Seeing as how getting a 4.0 at Harvard is pretty much impossible (only one 4.0 or so every ___ amount of years), would you say that a 4.0 at UC Berkeley (I’m not sure how common this is) is better than a 3.8 at Harvard?</p>
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<p>The larger schools (like Harvard and Georgetown) are (almost) ALL about the numbers, albeit awesome numbers for H. ECs are much more important at law schools with smaller class sizes, such as Yale.</p>
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<p>Yes, undoubtedly.</p>
<p>You’re not with the Berkeley Political Science Review, are you OP?</p>
<p>A 4.0 may be hard but it is just as hard to get a D or F, said to be almost impossible to flunk out of Harvard, whereas Cal is famous for its statistical curve of grades carefully adjusted to yield the right percentages of A, B, C, D and F results. Fill a class with nobel laureates and the same percentage of them will be forced down to B, C, D and F grades to ‘fight grade inflation’.</p>
<p>Ektaylor: no</p>
<p>Would you say in general English is a good major (assuming and going along with the fact that it’s your strength)?
Would it be a good degree for anything if you didn’t do law school?
Do you know any engineers? If so, what are their opinions of engineering as major?</p>
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<p>I don’t really know how to respond to your first question. Yes, English at Berkeley is a good major. The #1 department in the nation means that you get a good education as an English major.</p>
<p>To your second: I, admittedly, haven’t done any research into the job prospects of graduating UCB English majors. I know a lot of people parlay their degree into journalism jobs, publishing jobs, ect. That said, it isn’t a degree that has any REAL worth by its own merit unless you’re continuing with academia. </p>
<p>To the third: I know a number of EECS kids. Their job prospects are pretty good, but as far as I know the majors themselves are no cakewalk.</p>
<p>Oh…I forgot one. I pick up from the other posts that it basically does not matter your major at all. So, if an engineer wants to go to law school, there will be no slack for grades whatsoever?</p>
<p>Also, do you have any suggestions as to how a person could try to discover what their strength is in order to find a good major?</p>
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<p>Slack isn’t the right word. The physical sciences and associated fields are given a tiny amount of “respect” for the rigor of their majors. It is truly small though, and won’t make up the difference between a 3.8 and a 3.9, or a 3.85 and a 3.9 unless there is something exceptional about what you accomplished.</p>
<p>As for discovering your strength, I would guess that you have an inkling about something that you’re good at. If you’re an incoming freshman, try to narrow it down and take introductory courses in a major or two and see if any of them strike your fancy or seem to lend themselves to your individual talents. You’re kind of forced to do this with breadth requirements anyway, so consider getting a few breadth requirements out of the way your first semester as a way of surveying the academic field for where your strengths lie.</p>
<p>How did you know you wanted to go to law school? I’m a sophomore and trying to figure out if law is the right thing for me so I can start studying for the LSAT next summer.</p>
<p>Bored after my first finals as a 1L. Necrobump!</p>
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<li><p>how big is your p-nas? or how deep is your va-jay-jay?</p></li>
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<p>Are many Berkeley students admitted to top law schools?</p>
<p>Was your English major the right choice for law school?</p>
<p>I know you’re an English major, but would you happen to know anything about the Comparative Literature major? As in, how the upper div classes are like, if it’s competitive, the workload, etc. I’m very interested and I don’t know a single CompLit major.</p>
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I personally know someone from Berkeley attending Harvard, someone attending Stanford, someone attending NYU, and someone attending Columbia. There are more people than those I know, of course. As for my major, it was right in that it was something that I had a natural academic inclination towards and had the right skill-set for. My GPA was good and that helped get me admitted.</p>
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<p>1.) Are you in Harvard law right now? If so, is it significantly more difficult than Berkeley, a little more difficult, or about the same?</p>
<p>2.) Do you feel as if Berkeley has made you a stronger student at Harvard law? Even though Harvard Law does admit from a myriad of colleges, do you feel as if you’re at an advantage because you’ve gone to Berkeley (a much tougher school when juxtaposed to say, Cal State Chico)</p>
<p>3.) For someone who is more of a hard worker than someone who has natural intelligence, do you think it would be possible to score 170 + on the lsat after maybe 6-7 months of practice? </p>
<p>4.) Were you confident about your acceptance to Harvard? If so, what GPA/LSAT combination would you believe is the minimum to have a great chance at Harvard. (I understand that Harvard’s admission process is significantly more predictable than Yale’s or Stanford’s?)</p>