Chance me (undergraduate law) NYU, UCLA, Georgetown, Duke, Upenn, University of virginia, texas at austin, vanderbilt and Cornell.
First off my nationality is Portuguese. My race is white/caucasian. I have lived in Portugal, France and Brazil. i speak portuguese english and french fluently and i can get around with spanish.
I got 39 points in the hardest course (IB) My gpa is 3.7 on the unweighted scale (junior and senior ears). I also do 4 high levels instead of the typical 3 (Physics High, French High, History high and English Literature High). However, i only started doing good in school in my junior year so my freshman and sophmore years are pretty average in terms of gpa.I got a 2200 in my SAT.
Now extra curriculars i have played tennis for about six years now. I played football (soccer) for 4. Swimming for 3. I volunteer at an NGO where we managed to raise over 5000 dollars by organizing a concert involving local communities in brazil to play at. I used to play the guitar as well. I have travelled all over the world (don’t know if this counts our not) and my family income is high. I have also gone to multiple MUNs and even one in Yale. I have participated twice in the duke of Edinburgh programme. I have also won medals for Judo.
That is it i think. Thank you to who ever helps me out here by chancing me. Have a great day everybody.
Sorry for any grammar/spelling mistakes by the way; i was in a hurry.
There is no such thing as “undergraduate law” in the United States. There is not even such a thing as a “pre-law” major. Law schools are all graduate schools, and students get in with all sorts of undergraduate backgrounds, but majors like Political Science, Government, and Economics are some of the favorite majors for students (including my own son) considering Law School. In other words, you can go to almost any four-year college and prepare adequately for an American law school. The principal criteria are your undergraduate grades and scores on the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), although job experience, extracurricular activities, and internships can all help your chances. All the colleges you listed will be reaches for you, although none are necessarily out of reach. The one that might be most difficult, surprisingly, is UT-Austin. They are bound by strict mandates to accept the top 7% of students from all high schools in the state, and that makes it very difficult for non-Texans to get in. You should also try to calculate your GPA for the UC system. They concentrate on sophomore and junior grades, and have a discrete method for weighting grades. If your UC-weighted GPA is under 4.0, UCLA might not be a great option. UCLA and Berkeley have fallen under political pressure not to accept as many out-of-state applicants. I recommend adding George Washington U, American U, U of Miami, Tulane, and - if you’re willing to consider a smaller college - Occidental. Do you have financial constraints? If so, that might make some of these colleges very difficult for you.
Crap yeah i just wanted to say universities not law schools. But no i dont have any financial constraints
Thank you for the detailed response and yeah since i go to a british school which concentrates in sending students to the UK they did not emphasize gpa and more just test scores so my gpa isn’t great.