<p>I'm planning on going to UGA next year, as I hear the Honors Program there is great. However, I could get into many other schools (perhaps even some Ivy League), but I'd like to save my money to pay for graduate school. Will going to UGA hurt me when trying to get into top-tier law schools, e.g. Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc., if I perform well on the LSAT exam and make good grades at UGA?</p>
<p>Thanks, and any information helps a ton!</p>
<p>It should not hurt you much if at all as long as you get a good GPA and LSAT</p>
<p>Very smart move, bravo. Many universities honors programs are great way to save money and get an excellent education. I’m not familiar with UGA’s in particular though. And almost all honors programs are FREE (which you know).</p>
<p>Good grades, good LSAT, good extra-cirriculars and shadowing etc. can get you in to any ivy. You really just gotta show your a high caliber student (this can be done at almost any school).</p>
<p>A big advantage of an honors program is that you often get a lot of attention from your counselors. This can really be a game changer when going into law or med school. Good luck, if you put in the effort anything is possible!</p>
<p>Grades and LSAT are really the only thing that law schools care about. Harvard will care a bit more than most about soft factors, because they can afford to, but grades and LSAT are still 80% of the decision at least.</p>
<p>Perceived rigor of the undergrad program is a factor in law school decisions, but it’s a very small factor. Plenty of people at the T7 schools came from state schools. By far the biggest factors are GPA and LSAT, then the less objective stuff.</p>
<p>Last year, Harvard law accepted students from 261 undergraduate programs. Here’s the list:</p>
<p>[Undergraduate</a> Colleges](<a href=“http://www.law.harvard.edu/prospective/jd/apply/undergrads.html]Undergraduate”>http://www.law.harvard.edu/prospective/jd/apply/undergrads.html)</p>
<p>Notice that there are plenty of non-ivy schools, even non-selective public schools. And, UGA is on that list.</p>
<p>What everybody else said. S is going to be a 1L at Harvard this year, he graduated from our state flagship. He have met a number of state school graduates among his future peers.</p>
<p>HLS is the second largest law school in the country.</p>
<p>It fills its classes with plenty of state school graduates.</p>
<p>I didn’t enjoy my state school Honors program experience at all. I would have rather gone to Dartmouth, but it cost a bajillion dollars and state school was free. </p>
<p>I got into Duke with a 3.2/168, however I majored in chemical engineering. I suspect I got a bit of leeway with my Chem E background. I had zero plans to go to law school until I realized that I didn’t want to work in a chemical plant.</p>
<p>That being said, you will be fine getting into HYS going to UGA if you get as close to a 4.0 as possible and a high LSAT.</p>
<p>The key is to make sure that you are the <em>best</em> student (meaning highest LSAT) from UGA who is applying to Harvard. You are competing against your fellow UGA students because of the way the T14 handles admissions.</p>
<p>I actually went to UGA, i wasn’t in the honors program and I got into Harvard law (going next semeser). UGA is a great school at a great price- work hard, get excellent grades, get involved on campus, and TAKE AND LSAT PREP COURSE, and you should be fine.</p>
<p>I wanted to echo what others were saying, but also add UGA is an outstanding school. While it may not offer the prestige of an Ivy or some other private institutions, you can get a great education there.</p>
<p>Law school is very numbers-driven. If you maintain a high gpa (north of 3.7) and achieve a high LSAT score (north of 170), you likely can get into some top law schools.</p>