<p>I desperately need someone’s advice on what I should do. Here is my dilemma:</p>
<p>Ok, I’m not bragging or anything but I am a pretty smart person. Basically, if I study I can easily pull an A. I was lazy in high school and slacked off, so I went to UC Riverside. I then made a promise that I wouldn’t slack off ever again. As a result, after finishing my first year at UCR, I earned a 3.93 cumulative GPA. I also applied to USC as a transfer during my freshman year at UCR, and got into USC as a sophomore. But here’s the twist: I was admitted for the Spring. I’ve finished almost every course necessary for USC’s GE requirements, so it would be a waste of my money to go back to UCR for another quarter. So basically I have about 5 months of nothing to do. </p>
<p>Here’s the deal though: I’m very serious about making my law school application look as flawless as possible. I know that if I keep up my 3.9+ GPA throughout college and ace my LSATs, I will land one of the top 20 law schools. I’m very scared, however, that this 5 month time-gap will raise doubtful questions in adcoms’ minds. One person told me I should travel for 5 months and volunteer abroad, as this will look good on my law school applications. I’m serioulsy considering this as of now. </p>
<p>What should I do in this time gap??? Any advice would be appreciated. Please help me!</p>
<p>Yes, I really think it would look great on your resume if you did something really useful abroad. Make sure you leave an impact/ do something important. It certainly wouldn’t hurt you.</p>
<p>I worked in Honduras for a little while during the school year this year and it is a really amazing place to work and experience true Third World country. There’s a certain program that compared to other outreach programs in Central/South America is pretty safe (for example, I had an armed bodyguard with my group) and it would be an awesome place to spend 5 months, but I think speaking Spanish would probably be necessary.</p>
<p>wait this looks very interesting. i dont know spanish but im seriously very interested to learn the language. isnt there a way i can still go to honduras or something with that group and do some sort of work and learn spanish along the way. cuz i want to use spanish as my foreign language requirement and i think that might be a great way to learn. can you send me a website link or something about that group anyway please. i want to atleast look into it.</p>