<p>my dream is to someday work at the UN or do something with human rights/international affairs/diplomacy organization. this may sound corny, but my life goal is to be UN secretary general someday! lol. anyway, so i've got a couple of questions.</p>
<p>-what are the best undergraduate schools?</p>
<p>-what are the best graduate schools?</p>
<p>-MOST IMPORTANTLY: what would my majors/study choices be?</p>
<p>-anyone know any other organizations similar to UN?</p>
<p>well, as for colleges, here's a quick stat list:</p>
<p>Hispanic Minority (I'm from Argentina)
Top 10%
National Merit Semi-Finalist (still waiting to see if I'm a finalist)
AP Scholar with Honors
Captain Golf Team (one of top 100 players in state)
2280 SAT
SAT II: World History- 800, Spanish Language 750, US History: 780 (considering taking some other ones)
President of Spanish Club
Volunteered at hospital 250+ hours
Regular volunteer job at YMCA 200+hours
Key Club Board of Directors
National Youth Leadership Conference in Diplomacy
Took a one week course at Brown about Medical affairs abroad
Volunteered for one month in Africa building new schools, helped in surgery, etc.
Some other good stuff i guess</p>
<p>Can anyone point me in the right direction? My dream schools right now are Brown and Princeton, but i put an emphasis on "dream"!</p>
<p>My advice would be to keep your options wide open. Working in public health (with WHO or the CDC) is a great way to start out in the UN, for example (that's how Kofi Annan got started). The UN needs a variety of people- majors like anthropology, sociology, history, and biology are not uncommon. </p>
<p>Pick colleges strong in a variety of areas- Tufts, Johns Hopkins, the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton, Middlebury, the University of Rochester, Northwestern, Michigan, and Wisconsin are just a few that come to mind.</p>
<p>You also might want to consider the Peace Corps.</p>
<p>transfer, i was thinking about that, and to do that i was def. interested in smaller schools. Does Harvard law really accept students from state colleges though? (not that there's anything wrong with those, but come on, it's harvard...)</p>
<p>four more questions :D:</p>
<p>1) would law school satisfy going to UN? i've heard of international law. how does that sound?</p>
<p>2) with the whole law school thing, here's my plan: go to a smaller school like tufts, wesleyan, vassar, williams, or middlebury and major in international relations/humanities or maybe pre-law or human rights. after that, hopefully I'd want to get into yale (i don't really like harvard's atmosphere) for law and hopefully study international law/human rights.</p>
<p>3) are students from the colleges i talked about in question 2 generally admitted to places like yale?</p>
<p>4) to go to law school, do you have to major in pre-law before?</p>
<p>sorry if my questions are kinda silly, i'm just a little worried and new to this whole thing.</p>
<p>thanks so much for the responses so far and keep it rolling!</p>
<p>According to the Yale Law School Bulletin:
Institutions Represented
Brown - 19
Williams - 15
Dartmouth - 11
Amherst - 9
Wesleyan - 5
Cornell - 5
The University of Pennsylvania - 3
Middlebury - 3
Wellesley - 1
Vassar - 1</p>
<p>Go to your state university. Do the following:
1. Have fun!
2. Get a 3.9-4.0
3. Practice the LSAT until you get 175+
4. Go to Harvard/Yale Law</p>
<p>All law schools take "state kids" and also realize it might not be georgetown or vassar which gets the kids into HLS, but the STUDENT HIM/HERSELF. 4.0/175 from Iowa is going to be just fine.</p>
<p>However, if you can afford any school in the country or get grants, and it won't hurt you financially, then go where you want. Realize that you won't be making a lot of money right away and it makes no sense to have 100K in debt for undergrad, especially with 3 years of law, or 2 years of an IR masters degree ahead of you.</p>
<p>I think Harvard and Yale Law are actually much harder to get into than the previous poster has implied. Apparently, "the Trinity" of law schools (HYS) can afford to be incredibly selective in terms of admission - having a high LSAT/GPA will not cut it there. (But will work at Columbia, Georgetown, etc. Law) CTS from the Berkeley forum will tell you this in a heartbeat. It takes amazing extracurriculars/work experience etc. to get in, and yes, maybe 1 may get in from a state university, even like Cal State LA, but 100+ will get in from their fellow elite schools like Stanford. Check out the Law School forum for more on this.</p>
<p>I think Georgetown SFS is the best shot for you if you're sure this is what you want to do. You can also go to plain old law school (undergrad major doesn't matter that much here as much as your overall resume) and try from there. I know a Yale undergrad/Harvard law grad who speaks 6 languages who currently works at the World Bank now...yeah...crazy.</p>
<p>Go where your gut tells you. The fact that there are 15 Brunonians at Yale may just be an indication that many more of them applied -- and were rejected (beware the left side of the bell curve.) OTOH, I suspect the low number from places like Cornell and Penn may reflect a preference for the law schools of their own alma maters which are also fine institutions. Or, maybe just a student culture that favors business (Penn) or engineering (Cornell.) It's hard to say; I wouldn't put too much faith in these institutional profiles. I only chose them to show that you can get into YLS from a variety of places. Your stats are okay -- not a slam dunk --but, enough to justify applying to an assortment of colleges.</p>
<p>thanks for the info! where exactly can you get a free list of the best international relations program? i think there's one on US NEWS but im not paying 15 bucks for a list.</p>
<p>jw, yeah i know my stats aren't "amazing" so im a bit worried. do you think i could still get into either tufts, williams, georgetown, wesleyan, rice or vassar?</p>