<p>hey how important are your high school freshman year grades? i got a 2.86 and a 3.6... and i'm looking for the top 3 uc's and some private schools.. do you know any private schools the top ones that dont include freshman year or don't generally examine it deeply? do i still have a chance at them? i've improved dramatically every semester and a 4.7 junior yr... ec's are wayy above average:
7 clubs
Eagle scout
Varsity tennis
jazz band orchestra
Dance
400 hrs comm service and eagle scout project
much more...
my cumulative for privates might be around 3.95... is that still good enough? Have i failed in life or should i still apply to the privates!? </p>
<p>which ones dont examine freshman yr closely!</p>
<p>ya my top choice is ucla beacuse its in LA but i wanna be a lawyer and i hav eto graduate from the top 25 schools to get into DECENT law school.. so i know the uc's dont look at freshman yr which is good but just in case i wanna aim for some privates just so i can get into a law school not nearly as hard as if i was in a uc... i wanna make like 150 grand as a lawyer first yr... my moms friend is the dean at yale law school so i dunno... easy money! what other schools tho? hmm carnegie mellon... lemme see how good that school is!</p>
<p>"ya my top choice is ucla beacuse its in LA but i wanna be a lawyer and i hav eto graduate from the top 25 schools to get into DECENT law school.. "</p>
<p>that's not true at all, as long as you have a good LSAT score and a high gpa you will most likely be accepted to a good law school.</p>
<p>From the Stanford Law website: </p>
<p>Educational Backgrounds: Classes of 2003-05 </p>
<p>Albertson College
American University
Amherst College
Arizona State University
Ball State University
Barnard College
Bates College
Beijing Medical University
Boston College
Boston University
Bowling Green State University
Brandeis University
Brigham Young University
Brooklyn College
Brown University
Calvin College
Carleton College
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
Claremont McKenna College
Colby College
College of St. Benedict
College of William & Mary
College of Wooster
Colorado College
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Davidson College
Drake University
Duke University
Embry-Riddle University
Emory University
Fudan University
George Washington University
Georgetown University
Georgia Tech
Grinnell College
Gustavus Aldolphus College
Hamilton College
Harvard University
Hollins University
Howard University
Hunter College
Illinois Wesleyan University
Indiana University
Kansas State University
Kenyon College
Linfield College
Loyola College
Macalester College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
McMaster University
McNeese State University
Michigan State University
Middlebury College
Montana State University
Mount Holyoke College
New York University
Northwestern University
Oberlin College
Occidental College
Pennsylvania State University
Pomona College
Princeton University
Principia College
Purdue University
Renmin University of China
Rice University
Rutgers University
Santa Clara University
Seattle University
Seoul National University
Skidmore College
St. Mary's College of Maryland
St. Xavier's College
Stanford University
SUNY Stony Brook
Swarthmore College
Syracuse University
Texas A & M University
Texas Christian University
Trinity University
Tufts University
U.S. Military Academy
U.S. Naval Academy
UC Berkeley
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UC San Diego
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Cruz
UCLA
University of Arizona
University of Arkansas
University of Chicago
University of Colorado
University of Georgia
University of Illinois
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Iowa
University of Maryland
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of Missouri
University of Montana
University of North Carolina
University of Notre Dame
University of Oregon
University of Pennsylvania
University of Redlands
University of Rochester
University of Southern California
University of Texas
University of Texas at El Paso
University of Toronto
University of Utah
University of Vermont
University of Victoria
University of Virginia
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin
Utah State University
Vanderbilt University
Vassar College
W. Washington University
Wake Forest University
Washington & Lee University
Washington University
Weber State University
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Whitman College
Williams College
Yale University</p>
<p>! OMG haha are u serious!? i should just go to a ****ty school and get a high gpa and study hella for the lsat!! all those colleges on that list blow ... well except for you know which ones... wow are you serious? k i'm confused now...</p>
<p>this list is for this year's class
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Each year applicants are admitted to Stanford Law School from educational institutions across the United States and around the globe. They come from small liberal arts colleges and institutes of technology, military academies and academies of art, theological seminaries and medical schools, distinguished state universities and centuries-old private universities.</p>
<p>The following institutions represent the educational backgrounds of students in the classes of 2005, 2006, and 2007:</p>
<p>Albertson College
Amherst College
Arizona State University
Barnard College
Beloit College
Boston College
Boston University
Brandeis University
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University - Hawaii
Brown University
Bucknell University
California Institute of Technology
California State University, Los Angeles
Calvin College
Cambridge University
Carleton College
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
China University of Politics & Law
Claremont McKenna College
College of Saint Benedict
College of William & Mary
College of Wooster
Colorado College
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Davidson College
Drake University
Duke University
Emory University
Fairfield University
Furman College
George Washington University
Georgetown University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Gustavus Adolphus College
Hamilton College
Harvard University
Haverford College
Indiana University
Iowa State University
James Madison University
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon College
London School of Economics
Loyola Marymount University
Macalester College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
McGill University
McMaster University
Michigan State University
Middlebury College
Morehouse College
Mount Holyoke College
New York University
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
Occidental College
Ohio State University
Pennsylvania State University
Pomona College
Princeton University
Purdue University
Renmin University of China
Rice University
Saint Johns University
Samara State Economic Academy
Santa Clara University
Seattle University
Stanford University
State University of New York-Buffalo
Swarthmore College
Texas A&M University
Thomas Aquinas College
Tufts University
Tulane University
United States Naval Academy
University of Alabama
University of Arkansas
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Davis
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Los Angeles
University of California, San Diego
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Chicago
University of Colorado
University of Illinois
University of Iowa
University of Maryland
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota
University of Missouri
University of Nebraska
University of North Carolina
University of Notre Dame
University of Oklahoma
University of Oregon
University of Pennsylvania
University of Rochester
University of San Diego
University of Southern California
University of Texas
University of Utah
University of Virginia
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin
Utah State University
Vanderbilt University
Vassar College
Wake Forest University
Washington University
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Whitman College
Williams College
Yale University</p>
<p>yeah, you don't need to go to an elite school to go to elite law schools, it's just that many of the kids at elite schools are already extremely smart, so they get into better schools. I wouldn't say just go to a crappy school to keep your gpa up. Go to a school that you like, where you'll be challenged, and study something that you enjoy. The type of school you go to is taken into account, so if you have great grades from a low tier school, but have a relatively low lsat, that might hurt you.</p>
<p>thanks drew i was scared if i went to davis... not even mcdonals would hire me . : ) but seems that some davis guys went to standford law school. they must have had like 3.9 and plus g.p.a's</p>
<p>The majors perennially most common in our entering classes are political science, history, economics, English, psychology, and philosophy; some atypical majors that we think provide particularly good training for law school are computer science, mathematics, engineering, and hard sciences, which disciplines make up about 20 percent of the class; classics, seen relatively rarely, is also an excellent foundation for legal study.</p>
<p>mathematics for law school??? wow drew your really helpful : ) thanks man.. out of those majors which do you think would be the easiest.. i was thinkin u.s history</p>
<p>I don't think those count. its just courses in high school... i was wondering ow much freshman year counts in high school and which colleges throw away these grades.</p>