<p>I am currently a junior. I am an international student.
I have a weighted GPA of 4.03/4.1 (I think I am ranked as one of the top 10 of a class of 200 students).
I took the SAT during January and got a score of:
M 760
CR 800
W 630 (I know it’s low compared to my first two score, but I’m retaking the SAT again)</p>
<p>I currently do the IB Diploma at my school:
IB Chemistry HL
IB Biology HL
IB Psychology HL
IB English HL
IB Math SL
IB French SL</p>
<p>I’ve participated in extracurricular activities such as cross country, debate team, community service clubs (such as Global Issues and Amnesty), and various clubs and activities with leader positions.</p>
<p>I was wondering if there are any suggestions for good target/reach/safety schools? (I plan to major in law…or biological sciences). I’m currently extremely lost right now…</p>
<p>In the US, you do not major in law as an undergraduate. You major in whatever you like, then apply to law school. If you get in (very GPA and LSAT dependent), then you go to law school after finishing your bachelor’s degree. Of course, after finishing your law degree, there is the bar exam.</p>
<p>Although certain undergraduate majors like political science and English are popular among pre-law students, there is no specific major or course list that is required. The exception is if you want to go into patent or intellectual property law, in which case you would want to study to a science or engineering bachelor’s degree.</p>
<p>Biological sciences does not have very good job and career prospects at the bachelor’s degree level. Note that is not required to major in biological sciences to do the pre-med courses.</p>
<p>check the threads on universities vs. LACs (liberal arts colleges)</p>
<p>You need to decide what kind of educational experience you are looking for, what you can afford to pay, and what part of the country you want to be in. There are over 100 excellent schools that someone with your scores could get into (although not necessarily afford!) so tell us more.</p>
<p>As a first pass in evaluating the likelihood of admission to any given school, you can go to each school’s web site and put “common data set” in its search box. Among other things, it will include the 25th and 75th percentile scores on various standardized tests. You can use this as a rough guide as to which schools you are more or less likely to be admitted to.</p>
<p>For “safety” schools, be sure that those which are admissions safeties (ones which you are likely to get into) are also financial safeties (ones which you can comfortably afford to attend to completion of your degree, considering net cost after non-loan financial aid and scholarships).</p>