Question: Do I have a chance at Harvard, Yale, Georgetown, Stanford law ect?

I am currently a senior in college. I attended DePaul University my first two years of college and now I am at UCLA (junior transfer). I have a GPA of 3.86 and LSAT of 175. I desire a career in government, and I have been very politically active both in college as well as in high school. I am the national student director of an international advocacy non profit based in DC and lead a network of 20,000 students from across the globe for action against crimes against humanity. I have held this position for a year so far. (I worked my way up from the bottom to attain this position. I have been involved with the organization since junior year of high school where I formed a chapter at my high school and was club president for two years. I also founded chapters at my colleges. I have interned at the US State department in Washington, as well as Senator Kerry's office and the Chicago council for global affairs. I have taken the most advanced courses offered in my major even as a freshman. Also, since my job is based in DC, I am flown out there often to work in the office and meet with advisors in the white house. (that is not a joke) When I am back in LA, I meet locally with my senators once a month (mostly the staffers though) to lobby towards effective legislation.

I have also overcome many significant obstacles in my life to get where I am today.

I have excellent recommendations as well from two of my favorite professors of political science and economics.

I am also half black.

Do I stand a good shot at these schools? (I already applied to Harvard. Just waiting the decision. Its my top choice) What about Yale, Georgetown, Stanford, UCLA, NYU?

thank you so much!

Answer:

I attend a third tier ABA law school so I cant really tell you how hard or competitive it is to get into the schools you have listed. I can tell you that generally law school applications tend to examine the whole person not just grades and LSAT scores so the fact that you can fill your application with all these extra curricular activities is great. Law school is demanding. Everything about law school is different as far as reading, writing, and even how you are tested. In law school, everyone is "smart" but the truth of the matter is that some of these "smart" people are going to get D's and F's because that is just how the law school curve works usually. Law school is a humbling experience for many. Good luck.

$55000 a year at harvard similar at yale and stanford hope you have saved up

http://www.lsatprepcourse.com/law.htm

http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandre…

1st site shows the average LSAT scores needed. The 2nd lists the average costs of tuition in each school.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/09/busine…
This last one you need to read, since the law field is saturated with lawyers graduating and unable to find work.

But it appears you are on the right track with your studies and your net-working in government. My husband got his 1st job in a law firm, due to his political ties while in school. He made partner after 2 years, but left 10 years after that to be in sole practice, which was 30 years ago.

good luck

You should have a good chance at anything not HYS, and a decent chance at HYS. It's not a good sign that you haven't been accepted yet, though - applying late in the admissions cycle is the single biggest mistake you can make. The first acceptance letters at my school went out two months ago. You can certainly still be admitted if you applied after November 1st or so, but your chances do decrease pretty dramatically.

You'll probably get in somewhere and hopefully you have some other T14 schools as backup just in case.

Sounds like you have a shot at getting in. Hard to tell - they get tons of very qualified applicants.

Good luck.