<p>I'm a junior applying to Columbia Law in the fall, I have a 176 LSAT, my GPA at the end of this year will be a 3.77 at a top 20 liberal arts school.
I've been active in several clubs and will be president of my mock trial team next year (after being treasurer sophomore year and vice president this year), am current president of the pre-law society, and will be vice president of College Republicans next year.
I've served on my school's conduct board and been a freshmen mentor, starting this year.
Over the summers, I've worked part-time and had legal internships at a court house two years.</p>
<p>So, background aside, I'm a double major in Political Science and Religion. I've taken nothing but 300+ levels (my school has 100 as the easiest, 200, 300, and 400) this year and all non 300+ levels that I took my sophomore year were required classes</p>
<p>However, my classes don't... sound that impressive if you just look at the titles. And I'm really nervous that it's going to affect my application. Is this reasonable? And what are my chances of getting into Columbia</p>
<p>Did someone in the prosecutor’s office tell you that you should prioritize Columbia and NYU? I’ve never heard that either the DA or USA in NY is biased against Y/H grads in favor of the local schools.</p>
<p>Agree with Hanna. Go the best school you can, rather than plan around a career choice. Lots of things can happen to the career path along the way. The goal is to keep as many doors as possible open - not the NYU and Columbia will close any but neither will Harvard/Yale.</p>
<p>The current Manhattan DA is a grad of Yale College and Georgetown Law. I don’t know why you would think he’s going to be biased in favor of Columbia and NYU grads. </p>
<p>Besides, the loan forgiveness programs may matter to you. Make sure you review them thoroughly and take them into account in making your decision–if you are lucky enough to get a choice.</p>
<p>They offer semester internships for law students - if I can do that, I’d like to and it would be easier if I was in the area. But of course I’m not discounting HLS or YLS (honestly, I didn’t think I could get in, but I’m absolutely applying), if I get in there, we’ll see, I still have a while to make exact decisions…</p>
<p>As for my LSAT prep, I never took a prep class, I just used books and took millions of practice tests. I did start prepping since freshman year. (I took a sponsored practice test completely blind (I didn’t even know what the format was) - I did fairly well, so I was confident and excited to start preparing and trying to beat my score). </p>