<p>I am an international student in my second year at trinity university.I know that trinity is a good school but my problem is that I want to go to an Ivy league Law school and from what I know and what I have heard I think that students in ivy league law schools are usually those that graduate from other Ivy leagues or really really good schools such as uni of chicago etc. So, I was wondering if I should transfer at the end of my sophomore year to a maybe higher ranked school so as to improve my chance of an Ivy league admission. I dont really know my GPA but I’m sure it must be 3.6 or higher and I have already started doing LSAT practice tests and I’m sure I can score upto 175 on it. I don’t like to brag but I am academically quite talented. I didn’t do so well in high school only because I didn’t want to back then. I just started preparing for my SAT 5 days before the exam and ended up getting a fairly good score of 2010. I was accepted to UCLA and UT austin but couldn’t go because of financial constraints. I love trinity v.v.much, not just because they gave me the FA and the opportunity to study in America but also because I really love it here. I am very thankful to trinity for the help they provided but I do not want to take any chance that might jeopardize my future. Now my transfer options are UT austin, U of virginia, U of Michigan, UCLA etc(UT austin is preferable because I am now a texas resident and therefore would qualify for resident tuition). Any help and opinions on whether I should do this or not will be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>You said yourself that you really love Trinity, so my suggestion to you is to stay there. A 3.6 GPA and 2010 on your SAT’s will not get you into an Ivy (excluding, perhaps, Cornell if you’re lucky), and if you want to go to law school, it’s going to cost a lot. Transfers are notorious for getting lousy financial aid, and if you’re looking to spend another three years in school after undergrad, it would not be a wise choice to leave where you are now. Also, that’s not exactly true about the Ivy law schools only accepting former Ivy students. It’s just because these are some of the best students in the country already. If you raise your GPA at Trinity, there should be no reason why you cannot compete alongside these students a few years from now.</p>
<p>No what I meant was that I wasn’t very serious in high school, which was why I didn’t do so well in my SATs, but now I am very serious about my studies and my GPA in college is 3.6 or higher, and I bet that I can score above 175 on my LSAT now. do you know if my highschool performance would count against me for law school? if i perform well in college and have a good lsat score would my past record still count? my main question is that will transferring to a higher ranked college such as UT austin or UCLA have any impact upon my law school acceptance?</p>
<p>I don’t think transferring will have an impact on your being accepted to an Ivy League law school one way or the other. It isn’t clear to me how you are going to pay for your new school since you couldn’t go there in the first place due to finances. In general transfer applicants do not get good financial aid packages. I don’t know if you can get into an Ivy League law school or not. There are other law schools that are easier to get into and are more affordable and everyone comes out being a lawyer.</p>
<p>Well I was looking to apply for financial aid as a transfer too, and if I hadn’t gotten any I would have gone to UT austin if they had accepted me as I can afford to pay the resident tuition there. Anyway thank you for all your help, I realize its the end of the Ivy league dream. I’ll work hard and try to get into a good law school now.</p>