Do I have a chance of getting into a GREAT law school?

Graduate School Law School
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Back story, I always think I’ve been very intelligent but was really bad with authority when I was younger… I slacked on doing assignments because it didn’t interest me or I was bad with doing home work. Needless to say, I graduated with a terrible gpa… Under a 2.0. I didn’t think this would hurt me as much because in that mindset I didn’t want to go to school, I wanted to be an actress and move to California from my small town in the south rolls eyes

Either way, I did it… But I got bored with it and the people I was surrounded with, finally I’ve realized I’m extremely passionate about law & political science, these are the subjects that I would enjoy doing work with… This is what I love and constantly trying to know more.

So to recap… I graduated hs 3 years ago with less than a 2.0, Ive not been to university at all yet… But wait … There’s good!!

I’ve spent a good majority of this 3 years traveling, I’ve lived in Egypt for 8 months and currently living in Spain for the next 3 months. I have learned ( in my free time & traveling ) Spanish , French , Arabic and I know some german.

Ideally when I go back to the U.S. I will go to California and would like to start school the upcoming fall semester, I know I can’t start out with Stanford or Yale but where do I start out to get there? I’ve taken the sat when I was 14 years old and got a 1600 haven’t taken it since.

where is the best place for someone like me to start out? Btw, I love both subjects but see myself being a lawyer above a politician so I think that’s the better end goal but I would love to study both.

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Go to a good undergraduate school, try to get a great G.P.A, then take the LSAT and make sure you score well.

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the best advice for you is to attend a local California community college. Earn A’s in your first year and then apply to the Honors’ program at the community college. Earn more A’s, and then apply to transfer to a UC. Get more A’s at UC. Take the LSAT…

For law school your background will be a nice-to-have plus factor, but the fact is that ~95% of law school admission is undergraduate GPA+LSAT score.

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I agree on the community college recommendation. California’s system is the best way to hopscotch from CC to a UC school. After that, it’s up to you how well you do grade-wise. Are you a URM? That may make a little difference, but honestly you have taken such a unusual path in life, it’s going to be hard to get on that track to being a lawyer.