Hi, I just received an acceptance to the University of St Andrews. I’m absolutely in love, but I’m not sure how it will help my future. I want to go to a top law school in the US, but there’s nothing online about a student from St Andrews going to law school in the US…has anyone had experience or known someone who has gone to St Andrews and an American law school?
If your goal is a top law school in the U.S., you should attend college in the U.S. or Canada because otherwise your GPA will not be calculated by the LSAC (which runs the law school version of the Common App).
http://www.lsac.org/aboutlsac/policies/transcript-summarization
If you are strong test taker, attending a foreign college could be to your advantage, since GPA is essentially ignored; your admission will be based primarily on the LSAT only.
If you are going to apply to law school, you should aim high:
http://hls.harvard.edu/dept/jdadmissions/apply-to-harvard-law-school/international-applicants/
https://www.law.yale.edu/admissions/jd-admissions/first-year-applicants/application
https://law.stanford.edu/apply/how-to-apply/jd-application-process/
As you can see, HLS/YLS/SLS welcome international applicants-you’ll just have to follow the proper procedure as noted above. Also note there are additional requirements, including the LSAT. Be advised that each law school has separate procedures-but these procedures are posted online.
See also:
http://www.lsac.org/jd/applying-to-law-school/cas/internationally-educated-apps
OP: You’d be well advised to seek your law school application advice elsewhere. As you can see in the above links I’ve provided, the advice given in posts #1 and #2 is wrong. It’s an open internet forum, but regrettably-especially on the law school forum-people routinely post bad advice. The advice in post #2 is particularly incorrect, as all top schools will require a transcript, and the poster has zero evidence that your application “will be based primarily on the LSAT only.”
So please-do yourself a favor and do the internet research. It would be terrible for you to make a mistake based on bad advice like that given above.
Hey! I’m a current student at St Andrews and we have an active law society which hosts Skype sessions with US law schools (e.g. Yale, UPenn, NYU, Chicago, Toronto etc. ) to give advice on admissions. The Dean of Admissions for UPenn actually visited St Andrews a few years back to give a presentation and answer any questions students may have
I’m not in the law society myself, but you should try contacting the society on Facebook to see if they have any stories of grads entering US schools 
Good luck!
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