What are my chances for Georgetown or Emory?

Chance Me / Match Me
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Hi! I’m a sophomore at a charter school in Florida. I really want to study law at a college like Georgetown or Emory. My strongest abilities in school are foreign language and English, so I’m really building those up in my application.

When I graduate I will have stats kinda like this:

GPA: (Weighted) 4.5
GPA: (UW) 3.8 or 3.9ish
12-13 AP classes (all exams passed)
(APs in English, science, history, economics, Spanish, psychology, comparative gov…)
ACT: 32
NEW SAT: 1400-1450ish (just a guess based on past scores)
SAT SUBJECT SPANISH: 730
SS CHINESE: 760
SS LIT: 650
Also–I’ve studied Spanish since 7th grade and will up to 12th, completing an AP Spanish + Spanish 4 honors and will have done the same for Chinese

& my ECs:

  • president of Spanish competition team (2 years) -secretary Spanish competition team (1 year)

-founder of the Green Team (an environmental club, basically) - president for 2 years

-secretary of model United Nations (1 year)

  • held a job for 2.5 years
  • tutored Spanish students every week for three years
  • volunteered at the community environmental learning center for 3 years

ALSO there are some projects that I might do depending on how much they impact my chances of acceptance…
So should I do any of the following?

  • launch a free online program aimed at kids to teach Spanish to English speaking kids and vice-versa
  • create a student-run school board that works in tandem w the actual school board
  • launch a series of community events(which I've planning already) aimed at families who are struggling financially, including: • meals on a dime for people below 200% poverty level: provide meals, Show cooking demonstrations, etc •going to schools in the poorer part of my county and doing demonstrations on easy quick healthy cheap snacks for kids and passing out those healthy snacks and bagged lunches/foods for kids to take home

-I have a few other ideas but I can’t remember them and I don’t have the written outlines of them with me at the moment,
So if/when I remember them, I’ll add them.

Bottom line: what are my chances of Georgetown or Emory with these stats and EC’s and should I do those extra ideas I’m working on? Any suggestions for EC’s?

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You are asking the wrong question. If you are concerned with Georgetown Law, you need to focus on undergrad first. Valid question about how much the pedigree of your undergrad matters. From my reading LSAT is king and everything else is secondary. It’s also worth considering that if you want to attend a top 10 (or really top 50) Law School, then you should have little debt from undergrad in order to pay for law school.

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Thank you for the feedback! I was planning to get my BA there in legal studies before beginning law school (preferably at one of those 2 schools). Do you know by any chance if my stats would be good enough for that?

Thank you so much I really appreciate it!

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I forgot to mention, I will have also won several Spanish awards at the state level, and everything that I’ve done for Spanish I will have for Chinese, too.