<p>Thanks so much for replying,but i guess i dont how to post a message main parent forum/ This morning i tried to get in the web site and i didn’t have any luck. but thanks for helping me we have some really big decisions to make in a short time. hope to hear from someone soon…Connie</p>
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I know I composed a response to your post a day or so ago, at least I think I did. Jeez.</p>
<p>whether he gets accepted to A Law school? Clearly no. Whether he gets accepted to a selective law school? Yes. </p>
<p>The more selective the law school the more interested they may be in his undergraduate school. This is the first of many choices he will make. He needs to consider: whether he wants to practice in Illinois or elsewhere? Prestigious firm or small practice? If he wants to be a lawyer in a small to medium size firm, work in a prosecutor’s office , or be a general practice or family law attorney-tell him to look at what rate the law school’s graduates pass the Illinois bar the first time. If it’s a good rate , it’s a good school.</p>
<p>If however he wants to work in academia, or a large Chicago firm or practice in a national or global lawfirm or Wall Street , he may be in need of a degree from a more selective law school, admittance to which may require a degree from a well respected, more nationally known undergrad.</p>
<p>Good and respected does not always equate to “expensive”. I’m assuming he will be a transfer student to the undergrad? If so, and he wants to be a practicing Illinois attorney, for the vast majority of legal career choices, Illinois State will be fine for his last two years of undergrad.</p>
<p>P.S. I went to ISU’s website. Looked at the Pre-Law mentoring program, and the established Pre-Law advising program . Looks great. No worries. Go for it.</p>
<p>Thank you so very much for getting back with me… It is such a big dessision for my son. He has always wanted to be a lawyer ever since he’s been in the 4th grade. and he wants to make the right choice of schooling to persue his dream. He has loved history and hs won many grade school and high school awards foar it. To be a sawyer would be a dream come true for him… So the big dessision on where he should go to school to get his bachlors degree is very important, whether or not the university of Illinois law school would accept him or not. He realizes he has to pass the LSAT and his grade point average means alot but we were concered about the school…but we thank you so very much for all your great information…much thanks Connnie and Enrico.</p>
<p>connie, is he planning on attending the University of Illinois Law School? I will be glad to run a check on how they treat ISU students in the admissions process if that is in fact where he wants to go, and if I can find the appropriate info online. I’m really betting he’s quite O.K. going to Illinois State for undergrad if he wants to go to U of Ill. Law.</p>
<p>Trust this. If he wants to go to Law School and is a good student who works hard and makes good grades, B+ average, and he is a reasonably good standardized test taker, there will be a place for him to go to Law School. It may not be U of Illinois but there will be somewhere. And as I said before, for most areas of the law, the Law degree means far less than the law license he will get from passing the bar. </p>
<p>Some of the most successful attorneys I know went to junior college before transferring to one of our Texas schools. They all got into Law School, may not have been the University of Texas-may have been University of Houston or South Texas College of Law but both are good law schools whose students pass the bar first time out. I will assume Illinois has schools just like them.</p>
<p>Goodluck. I’ll try to answer any other questions you have.</p>
<p>Thanks again Yeh this is great even Rico is happy to hear from you. Yes He is as of this point wanting to go to University of Il. law school. He has mention Lyolla (i dont how to spell that In Chicago) once before but i think u O I is where at this present time. He graduated from a Community college (IVCC) here in Oglesby Il. with a 3.88 grade point average on a 4.0 scale. He is a very dedicated student who tries hard to get good grades, so i think that should be a + for him. He realizes going for a bacholors degree wwill be much harder. thanks again for all your input we look foward to your next visit… Connie and Enrico</p>
<p>Have you been to U of I to talk to their financial aid officers? I recommend you schedule an appointment to see if there is a way Rico could afford to go there.</p>
<p>I second what cheers has said. Nothing ventured , nothing gained. He sounds like an excellent student. Is there a guidance office or transfer office at the community college? If so, be there tommorrow and tell them of Rico’s plans. Ask them what resources are available to him to continue his education , and ease the transfer to U of I, or ISU at Normal. His GPA is fantastic. You both should be proud. He should have zero trouble transferring from an Illinois Community College to any state school in Illinois.</p>
<p>Roger- Can I suggest that this discussion started by Connie be moved to its own thread? I think she’d get more responses with a properly titled thread. Seems like only us Senior Members with over 1000 posts have read this :)</p>
<p>jym626 I would be happy tomove this to another thread but i guess i dont kow how to. I just landed this site by accident the other day and thought i would try it out an see where it got me… If someone could direct me to another thread that would be great thanks jym626</p>
<p>Connie-
If you go back to the main page where all the lists of the threads within this category are, you’ll see a little box just above the list of threads to the left that says “new thread”. If you click on it you’ll be directied to put in the title and text of your new thread. I’d recommend in the title you put in something like “cost of undergrad with eye towards law school” or something like that. If your title is too vague a lot of people wont open it-- so make it intruiging…Then, in your first post, put essentially what you first posted here. That should do it.</p>
<p>I have recently reconnected with CC after a year of personal complications and severe health matters concerning several family members, including a long bout myself.</p>
<p>I just wanted to say Hi and Thanks. Something I feel I did not do correctly or follow through on a year ago when I had to leave so abruptly.</p>
<p>Look for three post that I placed on Theatre/Drama on 6/19.</p>
<p>*Thesbohemian and All: Reconnecting wih CC
*UCLA and Theatre College advice in general
*A Little Gem of a School in California</p>
<p>Valerie</p>
<p>This is my first time and I am a bit overwhelmed by the whole process, I hope you can help us though the college search process.</p>
<p>Welcome, shoe. Tell us a little bit about where you are in the process, what type of colleges are of interest, what type of high school record and interests the kid has. You can’t find a better place for help than here, imho.</p>
<p>MES is at a magnet school and is the top 5% of a class of about 450, he is interested in engineering and wants a small school. He is on the high school tennis team and would like to play in college but is not atheletic scholarship material. I feel like we have some good schools in mind, Rose-Hulman, Wash. U, Rice, Bradley but he is open to other ideas. My main issue is how overwhelming the process is and how little help you get as a family.</p>
<p>shoe,</p>
<p>I will be spending some time this weekend with my nephew who goes to Rose-Hulman and will scope it out for you! I’ll be back!!</p>
<p>thx, I will look forward to your post.</p>
<p>shoe - in terms of the overwhelming aspect and little help for the family – does the magnet school lack a good Guidance office? Is your S about to enter Senior year? Has he taken the SAT/ACT tests? Has he, or you, looked at the common application form, or application forms for some of the colleges of interest to him?</p>
<p>anyone on here</p>
<p>shoe, if he is looking for a small engineering school and has strong scores and interests, suggest looking into Olin College of Engineering.</p>
<p>MES is a senior this fall. I’ve heard his guidence office is pretty good about handling the actual applications, but they throw their hands up in the air when it comes to reseaching schools and how to talk to the various colleges. As for Olin I have begged him to look at it and he says no thanks. I feel confident that the schools that he is interested in are good but what I’d like help on is the actual process of picking. Do you apply to all the ones that the student is interested in going to? Do you visit before or after applying? After acceptance? What about money do you worry about that after acceptance but before he picks? Or should we rule out schools on cost now? From what I hear you have to be just about destitute to get need based aid and merit depends a lot on the school and what the student brings to it. How do you go about asking those sorts of questions to the schools and when is it appropriate? And my biggest question of all how do you decide between a school he likes that he gets a lot of aid from verses his favorite where we pay the whole freight and he has to take loans to help?</p>