Question: Do i look good for harvard law or yale? georgetown? columbia?

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:

Fact: Your LSAT / GPA / extracurriculars are all strong.

HOWEVER, if you did not include your ethnicity in your essays, you will likely NOT receive Underrepresented Minority consideration. If this is the case, you will be considered by Yale and Harvard (your admission won't be guaranteed, though), and will have a VERY strong chance of admission at NYU. You'll most likely be accepted into the programs at Georgetown, Stanford, Columbia, and UCLA, since they're lower ranked. And out of those schools, you're most likely to be admitted at UCLA.

If you DID include your ethnicity within your essays, though, and mentioned how it contributed to your development as a person, you'll probably get into all of these schools.