I was accepted into UCSC as in-state, as well as UO, DU, Chapman, USF, Drexel, Penn State. All offers 20% financial aid. My goal is to go into graduate law school in the future. Should I take UCSC or try to transfer to Berkeley or UCLA (my top choices) as a junior ? How secure is it even with TAG ?
Any guidance highly appreciated.
Cal and UCLA don’t participate in TAG, so not very secure.
I would go to UCSC and kick butt. Focusing on transfer is of course an option for anyone. But I bet you fall in love with your school once you start. In ten years you can answer your own question when a new kid posts it.
Hey @ValeriaHer2000 - good question and we are sort of in the same boat.
D20 is a CCC transfer
Philosophy Major (pre-law)
CCC 4.0
IGETC finished
Pre-reqs done by Spring '18
Good ECs
Not a minority
Not a first gen college student
So, not exactly the same - more you in two years if you decide to go to CC
The results so far:
UCSC Early accept; Awarded regents scholarship, LOTS of $ love being shown to her (pretty much an academic free ride)
UCB: Awaiting acceptance Y/N (Cal is her #1 school of choice by a huge margin)
UCD: Awaiting acceptance Y/N (3rd or possible tie for 2nd choice)
SFState & CSUMB: accepted
You can ping me in 12 days - might have an answer for you
welp. I have a good friend who went to UCSC and then went on to Yale law school… sooooo… really just depends on your own work ethic and just a smidge of luck
admission to law school is primarily driven by LSAT score and GPA. They don’t have a magic way of teaching at Cal or UCLA that they don’t have at UCSC. Especially not one that will work in the one year you attend before taking the LSAT. So I’m not sure what benefit you’re looking for if you start at a CC then transfer.
That said, the student body at UCSC is unlike that at most other UCs. If you aren’t going to be happy there then attending a different college makes sense.
^^^
Interesting thread I found. Supports @mikemac point
Best Law/Medical School Placement
bmcauliffebmcauliffe
Yesterday at 7:15 pm edited April 22 in College Search & Selection
I did a 2018 study (still working on it) of placement from associates at the Top Vault Law Firms (includes Cravath, Wachtell, etc.) and Top Medical Residency Programs (includes UCSF/UCLA/Harvard/Duke Dermatology programs etc.) ranked by reputation according to Doximity (for more competive specialties I counted more programs and from less competitive specialties I counted less programs) and so far have a sample size of 2490 residents and associates (split evenly). So far, in terms of placement per capita, here are the top schools in terms of representation (minimum count of 13 to be included):
1 Harvard
2 Yale
3 Dartmouth
4 Duke
5 Princeton
6 U Pennsylvania
7 Georgetown
8 Brown
9 Columbia
10 Johns Hopkins
11 Stanford
12 Northwestern
13 Cornell
14 Tufts
15 U Notre Dame
16 Rice
17 U Chicago
18 WUSTL
19 Emory
20 Vanderbilt
21 Boston College
22 UC Berkerley
23 U Michigan
24 U Virginia
25 UNC - Chapel Hill
26 USC
27 George Washington U
PM me for the full table of data with numbers or info on a specific school.
*Again, only included those with the largest placement numbers (i.e. smaller schools with a lower count may have higher per capita represenation but were excluded; the sample size isn’t that large yet)
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rosered55rosered55
Yesterday at 7:35 pm
Can you call it “best … placement” without knowing what every law school and medical school graduate wants from work and life?
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bmcauliffebmcauliffe
Yesterday at 8:17 pm
I’m not saying it is the “best” career option to work at a top Vault law firm or do a residency at the residency programs with the best reputations in their field; this is more a reflection of what the best undergraduate feeders are to top law and medical schools (because of the outcomes). This is a proxy for feeders to top law and medical schools because top law schools and top medical schools tend to matriculate graduates to top law firms and medical residency programs. Obviously, everyone has different career goals upon completing law or medical school so I am not judging what is best for each individual student or commenting on work/life balance, which is a separate issue.
Thank you everyone for their honest opinions, really appreciate it. I am leaning towards a CCC option lead to transfer to a TAG UC (probably UCI) and try at the same time UCLA or UCB. The main reasons are as follows;
- First 2 years GE is mainly similar in courses between UCSC and CCC needing to satisfy IGETC.
- The lower-requirements needed for the pre-major I am leaning towards (pre-political science or international relations) have good agreements between the UCs I am mostly interested and the CCC I have in the Bay Area.
- UCI, UCLA and UCB have law schools in the top-20 and could be easier to network from the inside if planning to stay in CA for graduate.
You have to look, but I doubt attending undergrad at those schools gives you any particular hook with those law schools.