<p>Does anyone know which colleges are good for an undergraduate degree in International Law or Gender Studies or Human Rights? I've heard that Georgetown and NYU are great but I haven't really heard of any others.</p>
<p>Also, does it matter when I'm applying to law school which undergraduate school I went to? For example, if I go to Rutgers for undergrad, will that hurt my chances of applying to NYU Law? </p>
<p>Any other tips for applying to undergrad schools for law would be great! </p>
<p>Thank you! :)</p>
<p>I don’t know of any school in the US that offers an undergraduate major in international law. It is often a concentration area in graduate schools of international studies, and a number of law schools have specialized LLM programs in international law. You can major in international studies as an undergraduate and most of those schools will have at least one course in international law. IMHO, the best ones are Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Johns Hopkins Columbia, Georgetown and Tufts. AU, GW and NYU are also reasonable choices.</p>
<p>Human rights is usually a subset of international law so what I said above applies. I know that American University’s Washington College of Law is famous for it’s work in human rights.</p>
<p>I don’t know much about gender studies except that it I often looked down upon as an academic discipline. One program that I know is highly regarded is at Brandeis.</p>
<p>Law school admission is largely a numbers game–a combination of LSAT scores and GPA. Where you went to college matters, but not as much as LSAT and GPA. That said, it is also true that LSAT scores correlate very highly with SAT scores, so you are going to see more graduates of top colleges at top law schools for the simple reason that they tend to be both smart and good standardized test takers. But you will also find graduates of Podunk U at top law schools. They had 4.0’s and stellar LSATs to get in.</p>