<p>Let me say this with respect to which school will be better for getting you into a good law school: WHERE you go undergrad has NOTHING to do with law school acceptances. HOW you do in undergrad, plus your LSAT, has EVERYTHING to do with law school acceptances. </p>
<p>I know this from experience. I went to an Ivy undergrad and transferred to a public univ my sophmore year simply because the Ivy was not a good fit. I did great at the public, had the time of my life, and got accepted into three top five law schools. Bottom line: your plans for law school should not be a factor in your decision. Stanford and CMC are both great schools, better than great, in fact. Listen to your heart, and go to the school where you think you can do great things. From the sounds of it, you’ll do fine wherever you go, and your law school prospects will be just as good even if you decide to go to your state’s flagship U.</p>
What are you talking about? There are no “costs” to picking CMC over Stanford in any area that matters. I dare you to name even one. CMC is a top-notch LAC that can provide the OP with an intimate undergraduate experience that Stanford simply can’t match. Stanford is a large research institution which will give the OP research opportunities he/she can’t get at CMC. It’s like comparing apples to oranges.</p>
<p>^ But if the OP was ADMITTED as “international,” S would have been able to calculate the FA cost ahead of time -> need-sensitive. So the OP may not get amazing HYPS aid.</p>
<p>The OP will soon find out that the FA packages of Stanford and CMC will be remarkably similar, given his or her low EFC. As far as picking one school over the other, the final choice will require an enormous amount of courage. Many people have had to make the same exact choice --CMC versus Stanford. And, despite the different outcomes and decisions, most who faced the difficult choice never regretted the result of the “flip of the coin” process. </p>
<p>Fwiw, I have little doubt that the OP will select Stanford over CMC. While there is no reason to doubt the OP will have a great experience at the Farm, there is also no doubt in my mind, he or she will soon discover how misleading the “advice” and “opinions” that were offered in this thread truly were. Inasmuch as it is not necessary to point out the fallacies, I’d like to state that many posts within this thread were long on a combination of baseless opinions and wishful thinking, but short on facts. </p>
<p>Both Stanford and CMC should deliver a superlative experience, albeit different in many aspects. As I intimated above, the OP will find out the true impact of a lecture+sections format and find out the problematic proposition of having to deal with TAs (who DO teach AND grade) throughout the ENTIRE four years of undergraduate education.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that the OP cannot go wrong, and this *despite *the information shared in this thread.</p>
<p>(Can anyone give me a sneak peek of Rutgers ranking for undergraduate political science, top 10-15-25 etc… all would be great. I can’t seem to find this anywhere local at the moment.)</p>
<p>Pomona isn’t “so much” better than CMC, although i do believe there is a definite difference in the type of student who attends each school. However, take the rankings with a grain of salt, personally I am surprised that Pomona is 6th and not 1, 2, of 3.</p>