I’m an international student(Junior) studying at a top 20 LAC and hoping to get in US law schools.
What are my chances
Stats:
3.97/4.0 (History+Econ Double Major)
LSAT 177
TOEFL(I’m international): 119 IBT
What I’m concerned about:
No Work Experience: I went thro CC threads and a lot of them indicates that law schools prefer students with a few years of work experience. However, that’s not practical for me cuz I can’t work in America(No working visa), and I can’t do law-related works at my home country(which requires an undergrad degree in law)
-I’m Asian and hold a Chinese passport(How much will this hurt my chances?)
-My undergrad school is not that great, it is a top 20 LAC by USNWR, but I don’t see a whole lot of people getting into T4/T6
What I hope to get out of law school:
-I want to get into big law cuz they sponsor the most h1bs
What are some schools I should look into&what are my chances for them?
Blanket the T14 with those fantastic numbers, and any other T20 in a location that you might like: UCLA for SoCal, UTexas if interested in energy industry.
Ask for application fee waivers.
Yale and Stanford will look to your EC’s and any work experience, and those two are low chances for everyone, but good probability of acceptance to HLS. Likely merit money at CCN, and big merit money for T7 and below.
Make sure you spend time on the supplemental essay questions, otherwise, a lower-ranked school will WL you for yield protections.
@ucbalumnus : Not sure that a law school applicant with a 177 LSAT score & a near perfect undergraduate GPA needs “help with admissions chances”. Just be sure to apply to NYU, Columbia & Georgetown in addition to any other top 14 that is of interest to you.
@Publisher
The reason I posted this is to see if being Chinese(International) will harm my chances of admission.
I had perfect stats+crazy activities when I applied to Undergrad, but was rejected by all of the t25 universities, and that’s because top US universities only accept a handful of Chinese applicants
@cbreeze
Feel free to make such assumptions, GPA may still fluctuate in my Junior Year, but I took the LSAT in my sophomore year.
Why would you study law in the US if your international? Did you check if you can practice with a US law degree? Some countries don’t allow law degrees from other countries
The best option would be to work in the US under H1B after graduation.
If not, I can go back to Hongkong, where I can use the US JD degree to practice law/
Perhaps on the margin, but T3 on down will be salivating for your numbers.
Being international can also be a plus factor for hiring as many US firms have offices in say, Hong Kong, and do work in China. (assumes you are fluent/proficient in Mandarin.)
You can get in anywhere with those numbers. I would be surprised if there were more than 50 applicants with combined GPA / LSAT scores at your level in the entire country