<p>I apply to U of M and I have received the email that I made the early action program.
I am still worried I wont get in I got a 22 on my ACT, my gpa is 3.6/4.0 and I am out of state.
Should I just go to one of the other schools I have been admitted to? Ex. University of Iowa, Indiana University, Illinois State. Still waiting to hear from Michigan, DePaul, U of I (Urbana), Northwestern, UCLA.
I applied to Michigan as undeclared major, but I know that I want to go into the pre-law program and then go to their law school. As most know they are ranked #9 for their law school. I want to go into sports and entertainment law, which I why I also applied to UCLA. U of M is one of the only schools near the midwest that has a sports and business law program.
IS THE SAT REQUIRED?
I am terrified I wont get in.</p>
<p>You don’t have to decide where to go until after you get decisions so you can wait to hear from Mich. With your scores, Mich, UIUC, UCLA, and Northwestern are very high reaches. </p>
<p>Moreover, you have some misconceptions about law school: (a) attending the college is not necessary for attending the law school and usually does not even create any advantage for admission to the school’s law school; (b) you don’t go to law school to specialize, it is mainly to learn a lot of basics needed for the bar exam and then pick a few courses in areas that interest you; (c) getting into law school requires high college GPA and high LSAT score, a test you won’t take until usually after junior year of college, the SAT has nothing to do with law school; (d) getting into the highest ranked law school you can is a goal but concepts of a law school’s specialties should be ignored in that choice, in other words don’t choose a lower ranked school because it tauts a specialty; (e) lawyers get into sports and entertainment law as a result of what they do after law school by getting into a firm that may have that specialty for which studying the specialty in law school usually has little to do with whether you will be hired by the firm; (f) pre-law in college is not a major, it is an advisory program and most every college has pre-law, you major in some traditonal subject which can be almost anything.</p>
<p>Bottom line, you should not be choosing a college because of its law school and you should not choose a law school because of a specialty.</p>
<p>Is the SAT required for undergrad though at Michigan?</p>
<p>Michigan says they will take the SAT OR the ACT. Because they are a Midwestern school, the majority of regional applicants probably only submit ACT scores, like you did.</p>
<p>The vast majority of applicants to Mich submit the ACT including because the State requires its high school students to take it. Colleges generally accept ACT or SAT. Please note that if you applied to UCLA you also need two SAT II tests because two are required for admission.</p>