<p>I really really really want to go to UVA Law School (or another top law school), but after reading all the threads Im thinking that maybe its not possible. Here are my stats, which I think are pretty good. Also if you think UVA is a stretch could you recommend good choices?</p>
<p>-Undergrad School William and Mary
-GPA 3.3 (Rising Junior I have 2 more years left and I would hope to have a 3.5 by graduation)
-LSAT (Clearly Unknown, what do you think I would have to get to get in?)</p>
<p>I think my strongest part if my EC. I am very interested in going into human rights law and I have already done a lot to with international service.</p>
<p>-Participated in a International Service Trip, sophomore year
-Chosen to lead said service trip, junior year
- I one of the influential and founding fathers of a nonprofit organization ,freshmen year (501c status, website, etc.) and now the we have a bank of half a million dollars (its only been two years).
- Student Area Coordinator with Amnesty International</p>
<p>I also want to add that I am a minority (black, female) I don't even know if that even applies. I'll check out lawschoolnumbers.com but I was wonder how by EC would play out.</p>
<p>If you're going to suggest that these EC's are "amazing", you'd have to talk more about what these trips and organizations are and how much time commitment they require. And the LSAT is too important to assess chances without it.</p>
<p>In my opinion, your minority status will have a larger effect than your EC's.
The more you can produce substantiated evidence of your EC's the better though. There are many people with great EC's as well, so be careful to not come off as high on yourself for doing the aforementioned EC's and focus on how they will relate to your study of law.</p>
<p>okay noted. I planned on focusing my personal statement around how important the trips I went on were. But I thought my golden ticket would have been starting a nonprofit business (a very sucessful one at that). am I banking too much on this?</p>
<p>1.) Law schools are reputed to be very numbers focused in the first place.
2.) Race is the exception to this.
3.) Obviously law schools would want to know more than you've told us about what this organization does and what your involvement with it is.</p>
<p>Clearly your EC's are not completely trivial. But they're certainly not going to get you into a school where your LSAT is not remotely competitive.</p>
<p>Let me be blunt..You have a shot because you are URM. Study hard for the LSAT--it will matter--a LOT! Your gpa is well below the median for top law schools. Your ECs are not amazing--they are at best somewhat above average. The LSAT will be the deciding factor...as will whether you are a state resident of Virginia.</p>
<p>Okay thanks everyone for your help. I'm going to start studying for the LSAT this summer, and I guess there is no need to worry of this so far in advance. I was just wondering. Again thanks for all the advice, I'm sure I'll get in somewhere and honesty that is all that REALLY matters.</p>
<p>"But I thought my golden ticket would have been starting a nonprofit business (a very sucessful one at that). am I banking too much on this?"</p>
<p>Yes, you are. There's no such thing as a golden ticket if you don't have competitive numbers. There are occasional happy admission surprises, but no golden tickets.</p>
<p>I think you should be extremely proud of your non-profit accomplishments. If you can do something like that all by yourself, honestly, whatever college you get into will end up being a small step along a way you clearly can build successfully by yourself.</p>
<p>Don't listen to the negative, over-competitive voices that chime in here on CC every once in a while. It's an amazing accomplishment standing all by itself, regardless of whether there are kids that've saved cancer with one hand and dying orphans with the other to compare with. Make sure to substantialize it in your essays, do your best on the LSAT, then just relax -- things will work out regardless of where you go or don't go.</p>
<p>Thanks frrrph for the words of encouragement, I was starting to get a little down after reading all the other posts. I'm going to study my hardiest and hope for the best. Who knows, maybe a top law school will see something in me. But honestly I just really want to help people andI want to learn how I can do that, so I really just want to get the best education that I can get. (keeping my fingers crossed).</p>