<p>My dad is a professor at UCLA law school lol he’s been helping me through this.</p>
<p>but thanks for the help 
i appreciate it</p>
<p>Is your father seriously advising you to major in Education to be admitted to Law School?
As a Faculty Brat you’ll have a major boost, but Elementary Education major/law school… I can’t imagine this being his advice. Seriously. Just not the same category.</p>
<p>All matches/high matches. Peperdine however is likely a high match/low reach</p>
<p>I was thinking that about Pepperdine
I’d be fine not going there tho, because I’m Jewish and I hear it’s super Christian</p>
<p>True story</p>
<p>bumpppppppp</p>
<p>Make sure you emphasize the fact that you were on the dean’s list sophomore year. I’m still a HS senior but I’d assume that the colleges would definitely have more perspective on you as a whole if they see that.</p>
<p>In any case, it’s now or never to transfer; UO is a great school, but if you’re genuinely dissatisfied than a switch is mandated. In any case, the freshman year grades may hold you back, especially at Pepperdine and American, but for the others, you may still have a shot. Don’t give them excuses, but find a story behind it and talk about it.</p>
<p>Good luck and thanks for chancing!</p>
<p>AU is probably out of reach, Pepperdine is not a school where you should go if you’re not strongly invested in the evangelical branch of Christianity. That leaves you with two schools, and that’s not enough - diversify your list. Find other schools you like - g to your campus library and borrow the Fiske Guide, Insider’s Guide to the Colleges, Princeton review’s best colleges; read about schools in States or cities you like; send an inquiry to schools where the average GPA is 3.2 or so (that’s where you have a decent shot) then read the publications carefully and/or apply immediately. If they have rolling admissions, the earlier you apply, the better for you.
In addition, I reiterate: is your dad seriously advocating Elementary Education as a major to prepare for Law School?
Or is he trying to gently break it to you that with a 2.7, 2.8 GPA sophomore year, you’d have to do very very very well every semester (we’re talking straight A’s in classes that matter to law school, ie., history, international relations, philosophy, economics, political science, government, writing, logic) to reach law school, and so Elementary School teaching is a better career path for you?
To have a shot at law school (even with your dad advocating for you at UCLA), you need a humanities or social science “academic” major and a high GPA (Science and Engineering also work, but that ship has sailed). To increase the odds, look for schools where your current GPA would place you in the median if not the top 25%.
(That’s another reason why AU isn’t a good idea: great school, but if you start out in the bottom 5% odds are low you’ll end the semester with straight A’s. Do apply, because you never know, but…)
A hypothetical to make you think about UO: If you got into Whittier, Trinity Washington, and not anywhere else, would you stay at UO or would you transfer?
(I do think your odds are fine at Chapman though but you’re taking a risk banking that you’ll definitely get in there).
Find 2-3 other schools you’d like to attend and that are within reach.</p>
<p>You definitely have a shot at Pepperdine and Chapman University… American University is by NO means out of reach, it just might not be as much of a target as Pepperdine or Chapman. Of course, you do still have time to boost your GPA even more so try to do that and add whatever else you can to your app until then. Best of luck…</p>
<p>MYOS1634 you need to relax. I put down my major as sociology, since I have enough credits completed where I can use it for a degree. You’re making me feel awful, and making my father feel like a complete idiot, when he certainly is not.
Sophomore year, I basically got all A’s.</p>
<p>HI OP, I can relax, but you’re the one who asked for advice, and who stated Elementary Education was your desired major to get into Law School.
I wasn’t thinking your father is a complete idiot (?why would you think that?), I was wondering whether he might have been trying to be gentle with you, helping you manage your expectations. If your major is sociology why did you say it was Education though?</p>
<p>I’m not trying to make you feel awful either. I’m trying to help you.
Right now, you only have two possible schools on your list, plus one that would be very uncomfortable (unless you plan to convert) and one that’s a reach. If you want to transfer out of UO, you need to find other schools, unless you’re totally fine going to Chapman regardless of FA offer (I assume you don’t have much financial need though.)</p>
<p>Are you a sophomore? You said “sophomore year I basically got all A’s” as if sophomore year was over? Are you a junior?</p>