<p>I’m currently a freshman at Auburn University in Alabama, a History major. I plan to go to law school. Here’s my stats:</p>
<p>High school</p>
<p>3.65 GPA
27 ACT
3 APs senior year
Senator in SGA
Assistant editor of student newspaper</p>
<p>College (expected)
3.9 GPA (everything but one class I’m taking is an easy A, though I might be kind of haughty here)
Five honors classes
Freshman Senator in SGA
Writer for paper
Member of GSA</p>
<p>Do I have what it takes to transfer to UPitt next year? Also, what kind of law schools could I expect to get into as a magna with good ECs from there?</p>
<p>IMO you will have no problem transferring. </p>
<p>It doesn’t really matter what undergrad school you go to, when you’re applying to law school - you’ll find lots and lots of posts on that issue in the law school forum on CC. People who go to the Ivies claim that they get a boost. It’s unknown whether the name of the Ivy carries weight in the admissions process, or if students attending Ivies in the first place would get better scores on the LSAT. Some law schools do post the Undergrad schools of their classes, and even for Yale you’ll spot many public universities.</p>
<p>There have been some reports that SAT scores are an indicator of possible LSAT scores. I doubt that this is always true (my kid found that some of his friends’ LSAT scores were in lower percentiles than their SAT scores had been - keep in mind that the LSAT can be learned. Some applicants take a year off to study for it.)</p>
<p>Your LSAT will be the largest factor, with GPA the next important factor. Soft factors like your activities, difficulty of your major, letters of reference etc. then come into play, particularly if you’re competing with someone else with the same LSAT and GPA. Your GPA is calculated from all grades from every institution of higher learning that you’ve attended, even CC. Your high school record will not be considered, which you probably already know.</p>
<p>Good luck! It was a lot simpler when I went to law school, than when my kid did his applicatons last year.</p>