Virginia, UPenn, Berkeley, NYU and Michigan for Law?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I bet you get quite a few Brits on here asking for info, make me an exception? ;)</p>

<p>GCSE- 6A<em>, 6A, 2B
A-Levels- Predicted- 1A</em>, 2A
Hoping to get into Oxford (first choice), LSE or Nottingham
Will do absolutely everything for a 1st class degree.</p>

<p>ECs:
In school:
School football, or 'soccer', team captain for 6 years (played for the county, state)
Cricket team captain for 5 years
Badminton squad, 6 years
Basketball team, 4 years
Cross country captain, 3 years (and ran for my county, or state)
Athletics team, 4 years
Table tennis team, 2 years
School Newspaper team, 3 years and was 'Chief Editor' for 2 years)
School Council, 3 years
Rugby team, 5 years
Duke of Edinburgh Silver award.</p>

<p>Outside of School:
Saunders Mountain Marathon (<a href="http://www.slmm.org.uk/"&gt;http://www.slmm.org.uk/&lt;/a&gt;)
3 Peaks (Basically the same, all in one day.) *
State/County cricket team, 3 years
Local cricket team, captain 7 years, played for 10
Captain of local football team, 12 years, captain for 6
Trials for local professional team, pulled out due to lack of confidence and injury
Athletics team, 1 year, again my injury pulled me out...
Work experience in law firms nearby
Bag-packing in local stores (if it is any consolation...)
Paper round each morning for the shops, 2 years</p>

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<li>basically walking up and around mountains/peaks in teams navigating your own way round.</li>
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<p>So yeah...
My injury was a torn ACL and Medial Meniscus, out for a year and half... </p>

<p>Whilst at Uni, I'll do my best to get involved as much as I can, obviously can't state what I will and won't do, but don't think I won't do anything.</p>

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<p>Oh, and I did World Challenge, spent 4 weeks in Africa with the school travelling and helping the locals, redesigned a school. Great experience.</p>

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<p>Got the memory of a goldfish, currently work for the store nearby, work on the checkout, 3 days a week.</p>

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<p>sooo…first thing is, in the US law is a post-graduate course, not undergraduate. Prospective lawyers can take any undergrad course, though you find lots of aspiring lawyers in political science type courses. Some universities offer a ‘pre-law’ major, but as with any US uni it is only part of your course, and it doesn’t particularly help with admission to law school. For example, here is what UPenn tells students interested in studying law: <a href=“http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/gradprof/law/”>http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/careerservices/gradprof/law/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>You have a lot of sports, but no ‘killer’ sport (ie, one stand out) and very few other ECs, which are a bigger deal in the US than in the UK, and no real focus. Do you have a story? (why the US? why that uni? why law? </p>

<p>Also, do you (or will you) have any US scores (SAT/ SATIIs)?</p>

<p>Would guess that Michigan and NYU (and Nottingham, for that matter!) would be a fair bet. For the others, it’s hard to even hazard a guess without more info.</p>

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<p>And even if you did get a GPA high enough to qualify for first-class honors as an undergrad in an US university, you still need to score 170+ on the LSAT to attend these… but, if you attended Nottingham for law school, then aim for a LLM at these T14s instead.</p>

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<p>I won’t have a GPA as I will gt my undergrad here in the UK, and I’ll have no US exam results other than the LSAT…
With my sports, I feel cricket and football are my best as I have represented my state/county numerous amounts of times in and out of school.</p>

<p>Would going to Oxford, then applying for the JD at one of them give me a better chance?</p>

<p>My story would be that American law is so much more fascinating and ‘nail biting’ than English law and that America is just an all round cool country. Something along those lines…</p>

<p>Could you give me a ‘reach, safety, middle’ thing to see where I stand? Also, any other info… </p>

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<p>Apologies, I misunderstood the question- I thought you were applying to the US for undergrad.</p>

<p>So, if you do law for undergrad in the UK, going on to regular law school in the US would be highly redundant. </p>

<p>A first from Oxford will (with a good LNAT) should get you any of the unis you listed- and possibly Yale or Harvard (if you were interested), but a good 2.1 from Oxford should get you into most of them as well as places such as Georgetown.</p>

<p>So- if you are sure that you want to do law school in the US, do something fun for undergrad (and ask the law students at Oxford how many of them wish that they had done PPE/His/HisPol,etc., and then done a conversion course!) then apply to law school. </p>

<p>Btw, of the schools you listed I would suggest NYU- top 5 ranked these days, and the hottest international law program going. </p>

<p>Also, your story needs developing, but you have time for that.</p>

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<p>…you might find this interesting: <a href=“http://yulr.org/think-outside-the-states-–-the-pros-and-cons-of-studying-the-law-at-oxford-and-cambridge/”>Trik Menang Game Slot Pragmatic Dijamin Untung - My Blog;

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<p>This may sound ridiculous, but when should I apply for law school? And where would I do the LSAT?</p>

<p>If I got a first from Oxford, then, would you say I’d have a good shot at these schools?</p>

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<p>You would have a good shot with a 2.1 from Oxford. You don’t apply to law school until the autumn of your ultimate year. There are LSAT test centres in the UK (London, at a guess)- Google is your friend. </p>

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<p>What about Chicago? It’s ranked 4th, would I need to be leaning towards a first? Or just have a better LSAT Score with a 2.1?</p>