Chance me for Yale and Cambridge?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am really set on going to a top school. I love the idea of Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge, Oxford, LSE, or Georgetown. I want to major in Psychology and continue into law school, eventually becoming an in-house counsel/corporate lawyer.</p>

<p>My school is all unweighted. I only mention classes if they are honors or AP.</p>

<p>Freshman:
-3.95 GPA
-Cross country, Youth Leading Change Club <a href="team%20leader">YLC</a>, Key Club
-Honors English</p>

<p>Sophomore:
-4.0 GPA
-Track & Field, NHS, YLC (VP), Key Club (Secretary), Knowledge Bowl, Junior Statesman (founder, P)
-AP Euro (3), Honors English</p>

<p>Junior:
-4.0 GPA
-Tennis, Track & Field, NHS (P), YLC (P), Key Club (P), Knowledge Bowl, Junior Statesman (founder, P)
-AP US (4), AP Lit/Comp (5), AP Psych (5), AP Stat (5)</p>

<p>Senior:
-4.0 GPA
-Tennis, Track & Field, NHS (P), YLC (P), Key Club (P), Knowledge Bowl, Junior Statesman (founder, P)
-AP Gov/Pol (4), AP Calc (4), AP Lang/Comp (5), AP French (5)</p>

<p>206 volunteer hours
SATs: 2020, 2320
Valedictorian of my class</p>

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<p>Why did you have 2 SATs? If you took it twice and got 2320 the second time, no one will look at your 2020. Either way you have a shot at Cambridge and Oxford. You will need to do an Oxbridge style interview (certainly much different and more difficult than a Harvard alumni interview) in Oxford or Cambridge if you are invited. So just keep that in mind. A lot of people do college in the US and go to the UK for a postgraduate degree.</p>

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<p>If you want to do law in the UK, go to Oxbridge or LSE directly for law.</p>

<p>Do you even have a safety?</p>

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<p>“If you want to do law in the UK, go to Oxbridge or LSE directly for law.”</p>

<p>Why? This is not at all necessary - only around 50% of new UK lawyers do Law, and it’s perfectly acceptable, nay, advisable, to do a Bachelor’s in a different subject first.</p>

<p>When I was at Freshfields, these are the people I remember:
Economics@Yale, Psychology@Yale, History@LSE, History@Oxford, Modern languages@Cambridge, Law@Oxford</p>

<p>Only ~60% overall had done law as their first degree, and this was due to correlation between Law students and those who continue into Law, it had nothing to do with causation.</p>

<p>OP: Oxbridge won’t really care about volunteering hours, sports etc. and nor will LSE. UK elite universities focus more on your subject and academics, and of course any <em>related</em> ECs such as debating, or psychology-related work experience, or texts you’ve read etc.</p>

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<p>Oxford and Cambridge look at test scores more than Yale does.
The interview, as others have said, is much more important. </p>

<p>Overall, Oxford and Cambridge are less selective than Yale and other top American schools.</p>

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<p>“Overall, Oxford and Cambridge are less selective than Yale and other top American schools.”</p>

<p>Um, no, they’re not. What made you think that?</p>

<p>You can only apply to ONE of Oxford and Cambridge, which instantly halves the offers rate.</p>

<p>You can only apply to five universities in the UK, which means people are much more realistic about their universities - people will normally pick a maximum of two universities which they consider ‘reach’, and every Oxbridge applicant has a strong chance of getting in due to the self-selection.</p>

<p>The quality of applicants is so much higher and so the rate of admissions is also a lot higher.</p>

<p>Compared to US applicants where you can apply to a whole bunch of elite US schools and then some, this means that Harvard will have loads more applicants.</p>