Currently I am in high school. Swimming is the best thing I have going for me and I have been recruited by multiple d1 and d2 schools, but im looking to go to school to get a good job after completion. I have mediocre grades and class rank Im 33/100 and my gpa is a 3.7UW and 3.9 weighted. I did take the hardest classes that I could though.
Im wondering how going outside of the us would effect my chances at a top US law school.
Colleges im currently considering:
cornell
brown
amherst
williams
American university in cairo
American university in dubai
Lund University
what are your thoughts?
Lund might be fine but universities in Cairo and Dubai would be a bad move, purely due to geography and novelty; there just isn’t anyone much from Cairo and Dubai heading to law school in the US. You need to be surrounded by faculty/staff/students who are geared to go to US law schools; their knowledge about the process will help. Plus are there Kaplan LSAT test prep classes in any of those locations?
Have the coaches at those first four school actively recruited you. While your GPA is a tad low for those schools, being recruited for a sport can be significant hook.
as you know well, coaching can make all the difference in your experience, so that should be first priority if you are going to be recruited. It makes no sense to join a team that is not a good fit for you.
That being said, if you like the campus culture, Brown has the highest mean GPA anywhere, and since LS admissions is primarily GPA+LSAT…
Ditto what Blue said above…
Given your current GPA I would say that Cornell, brown, Amherst, and Williams are out of reach
@couplemoreweeks Thanks, but that wasnt the question–if you’d like to answer the question that I asked i’d appreciate it.