<p>Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Columbia
Stanford
Penn
Wash U
Amherst
Pomona</p>
<p>Matches:</p>
<p>Emory
Berkeley
UCLA
Middlebury
Carleton</p>
<p>Safeties: </p>
<p>Michigan
Macalester</p>
<p>Alabama
Rollins</p>
<p>Can you guys help me finalize this list?</p>
<p>SAT I: 2290 (1490)
SAT II: October
GCE O’Levels: 11 A’s(5 A<em>); my school grades are mostly A’s with a few Bs here and there.
Predicted A2 grades: A</em>A*AA</p>
<p>ECs:</p>
<p>Debating - 3 yrs; Executive Member, Debating Society; Winner/Finalist in several tournaments; shortlisted for national team; best parliamentary and declamation speaker award in my school.
MUN squad.
Drama - President; Lead Role + Director of the school play.
Journalism/Writing - Chief Editor, Literary Magazine; Paid Freelancer for a national daily newspaper, July 2011 till date; Best Essay Writer Award in my school.
Research Intern at Legal Think Tank; Community Service - Microcredit NGO; National Outreach Program, Teacher; Volunteer, Homeless Shelter.</p>
<p>That’s definitely a long list of colleges - you’ll probably want to cut it down just because that’s going to be a lot of applications.</p>
<p>What’s your financial situation? Many of these schools aren’t need-blind for international students, so there’s a good chance that you’d have to be full pay. Can you/your parents afford paying $50,000 a year (more, with transportation and other expenses)?</p>
<p>My financial situation is fine. My parents can afford it.</p>
<p>Middlebury,Carleton,Wash U don’t have supplements.</p>
<p>Carleton and Mac will not have application fees.</p>
<p>Alabama gives automatic scholarships for ppl with my stats, so I’ve kept that as a financial safety; I wouldn’t want my parents to pay full for a school which is not exactly an elite one. Not being arrogant or anything. Sorry if this offends.</p>
<p>So which should I cut out? I was thinking about cutting out Emory. Do you think I’d have a shot at their Scholars program? and either Columbia or Stanford. and Rollins, perhaps.</p>
<p>With predicted A2 grades A<em>A</em>AA, I suggest you apply to Oxford or Cambridge and to Imperial College or LSE (depending on your chosen major).</p>
<p>Out of Stanford and Columbia, which one should I cut?</p>
<p>Columbia is appealing due to the wider scope of undergrad programs they have, and because it’s in NYC WITH a campus, so it’s the best of both worlds. </p>
<p>Stanford’s appeal is a bit more silly and sentimental for me. When I was a kid, I wanted to get an athletic scholarship for Stanford to play tennis. Back then I was pretty serious about it and tennis as a whole; now, it’s cooled off a little and I have abandoned those dreams. </p>
<p>I’m not the geeky sort, per se i.e. I get good grades, etc. but I’m not one to sit down and study all day.</p>
<p>Since you are international I am wondering if you have been to visit any of those schools. The schools you have listed vary in size and personality. The only thing any of them have in common is that they are all at the top or close to the top of the rankings. Do you want large or small or just prestigious ?</p>
<p>I’m not worried about large or small; either way, I know I’ll find my place. I’ve been going to a huge school for the past 12 years so it won’t matter. </p>
<p>The schools I’ve chosen are all close to or in a metropolitan area. Except Middlebury, but I love it. </p>
<p>Can someone please answer my question in post #9?</p>
<p>I like the Midwest much more than I like the South. Plus, Wash U will require little extra effort from me (no supplement). I really like Wash U too; it’s students seem very happy and normal.</p>
<p>If you went to Duke, the region of North Carolina you would be living in (the Research Triangle) resembles NYC/NJ/DC more than the South with the educated people, strong research infrastructure, and the liberal leanings. Duke doesn’t require an extra essay (optional) so it doesn’t take a lot of effort to apply there either.</p>
<p>I agree about your comments regarding Wash U. How about Northwestern as well?</p>
<p>If your intention is to study Law, I don’t think applying to American universities is a good option. As you may know, Law is not offered as an undergraduate major in the US. You’d have to get a 4-year bachelor’s degree first from an undergraduate college and then go through 3 additional years of Law School, which you would have to apply to and pay for separately. </p>
<p>In the UK on the other hand, you can obtain an LLB (Bachelor of Law) degree after the successful completion of a 3-year undergraduate program. The LLB degree won’t qualify you though to practice (British English “practise”) law in England and Wales. Becoming a barrister or a solicitor requires additional [vocational training](<a href=“Legal education in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_education_in_the_United_Kingdom</a>), normally lasting another 2 or 3 years.</p>
<p>In the UK specifically, I strongly recommend the LLB from LSE, but either Oxford or Cambridge are also great choices.</p>
<p>If you plan to go back to Pakistan to work as a lawyer after you graduate, you should check first if it is possible to do that with an American J.D. I’d suspect that, given Pakistan’s history, English law should be more relevant to you than American law.</p>
<p>On a separate issue, I don’t know how your admission chances to a J.D. program in the US would be affected by your status as an international student. You might want to post to the Law School forum to check that.</p>
<p>There are nds working in Pakistan actually and there more highly regarded simply because of the.more rigorous nature of the degree. In fact, aJD from UVA law told me to go for the us. Indeed, I’d admissions are difficult but as long as you can pay and have a good undergrad GPA and LSAT, one has a shot. The aforementioned jd was Pakistani,n
Graduated cum laude and had a 170 LSAT.</p>
for Law.</p>