<p>arg a lot of people on this thread want to go to law school :/</p>
<p>good point leanlikeacello.
but i don’t think that many
of those people,
[myself included]
will end up there.</p>
<p>Dartmouth
Stanford
Wesllesley</p>
<p>I really have no idea… I had a hard enough time with boarding schools!</p>
<p>Stanford (don’t know too much about its specialties, but the campus is BEAUTIFUL. like END OF STORY BEAUTIFUL. and the summers are nice and chilly with all the sun)
Columbia (very good writing reputation 
& in NEW YORK campus is beauutiful from the pics ive seen in the winter)
Brown (same. I love the campus as well)
Cornell (same. more likely to be accepted than the previous ones from the school I’m in right now, but you still have to work for it)
Duke (I dunno, I always liked Duke for some reason. asians never give them enough credit ): )</p>
<p>colleges I’m more likely to get into than the aforementioned “Ivies” (or at least dubbed by me :P) are NYU, Carnegie Mellon (I’m not gonna say it’s “easy” to get into, but in every single graduating class since I arrived, the 1st/2nd/3rd most accepted colleges always had Carnegie on it), UCLA, and a coupleee others.</p>
<p>But I’m basing most of these off curriculum, campuses, and name-branding. Though Stanford is still my “dream”, DREAM school.
my mommy was surprised when I never mentioned Harvard or Yale. :O</p>
<p>BROWN!!! 
(But I understand reality and know I could never get in)
Northwestern
UofM
Berkeley
Oberlin
Does anyone else find it really funny that most of us are not in high school (or I assume), yet we are alrady thinking about college?</p>
<p>lol, that is a little funny.
Where is Oberlin?</p>
<p>UPenn, Yale, Harvard, Brown, Northwestern, Columbia, and others…I can’t even decide. hehe. There are so many great schools out there.</p>
<p>i don’t want to go to law school. i want to go to amherst and get an undergraduate in english or psychology, and then go on to get a masters in english at brown. i want to be a writer. :)</p>
<p>hippofippo- it’s probably because we’re so exposed to the whole application process from bs. and we actually care about our future/higher education.</p>
<p>kickme- i know that stanford is tied second with harvard law after yale! </p>
<p>hellosunshine- i want an undergraduate in psychology, too! lately i’ve also been thinking about becoming a researcher in social sciences in law, psychology, education, history, political sciences, or linguistics. i’m all over the place, lmao. although english isn’t a personal favorite, it’s on my list as well, for i’ve heard on this forum that an english major may help in law school.</p>
<p>leanlikeacello,
i think the reason that english would help with law school is probably because there is A LOT more writing in law than people think there is. as well as being able to prepare a case without sounding ridiculous when presenting. it is understandable that people get an undergraduate in english to prepare for law school. </p>
<pre><code> i’m such a psychology geek. 
i’ve been reading child psych books since i was eight.
</code></pre>
<p>hellosunshine,</p>
<p>i know, i was at a summer camp (cty) for law and politics. it wasn’t enjoyable at the time because i was literally forced into that subject, but i’ve matured and my interest for law has grown since then.</p>
<p>random thoughts:
special education major to law grad -> rights for the mentally disabled in school systems
psychology/special ed majors to law grad-> reseacher for autism and other mental disabilities OR for the rights of autism and other mental disabilities</p>
<p>anyways, i’m interested in civil/constitutional rights.</p>
<p>Ryanone:
Collide, while my daughter who will be your classmate at Exeter is looking at Harvard/Wharton and Harvard or Stanford Business School, my EPGY OHS daughter is also looking at Yale, Harvard, or Stanford Law.</p>
<p>what’s ‘EPGY OHS’?
haha if EPGY OHS doesn’t mean your daughter is older than me by over 4 years, i might eveeeentually see her at Harvard/Yale law =)
that would be pretty sweet.</p>
<p>collide, EPGY OnlineHighSchool, if that clears anything up. EPGY’s a program by Stanford and they also have an online high school. It’s supposed to be extremely hard, and most people who decide to go to a public school as well as OHS have approximately 30 minutes to rest and prepare for sleep because of the workload. Though that’s only what I heard, I could be wrong. But it’s a hard OHS, for sure.</p>
<p>leanlikeacello; yeup! Stanford was like the most “popular” college or something in 2006? Not sure, maybe it was the acceptance rates or applicants, but it was above Harvard Yale and Princeton so that was kind of scary, seeing as now in the next 4 years the appliers to Stanford and all the wonderful Californian schools will rise (west coast !:D)
(of course, since I can always be wrong about anything, don’t take offense please. i love every Ivy League school, and I don’t discriminate they’re so… ivyish)</p>
<p>leanlikeacello, my EPGY OHS daughter will be going to the CTY law and politics class that you went to. It sounds similar to her EPGY OHS UBER-hard Core class, DFRL (Democracy, Freedom and the Rule of Law).</p>
<p>Did you not enjoy the class just because you were forced to go? Or did you just not enjoy the class? My daughter is really looking forward to it.</p>
<p>Collide, EPGY OHS like Kick me said is Stanford University’s Education Program for Gifted Youth Online High School. Now you know why it’s called EPGY OHS :)</p>
<p>Like I said above, it is UBER hard, but can be managed if you work extra diligently.</p>
<p>My OHS daughter is 15, so maybe you will see her at Yale, Stanford, or Harvard Law.</p>
<p>Kick Me: My daughter may return to Stanford’s summer program next year to attend the legal studies program.</p>
<p>i wanna go to columbiaaa!
cause they have like the best creative writing department, plus they happen to be in the best city in the world.</p>
<p>the brother wants to go to columbia but is sort of worried that its not in the best city in the world. he’d love if columbia was in chicago. hehe</p>
<p>leanlikeacello,
i did CTY too! i did the english program. it’s great that you have such an interest for law at a young age, i feel the same way about literature.</p>
<p>kickme: I know! West Coast schools are always so underrated! I live within an hour or two from Stanford and UC Berkeley and yet I have not visited them :(</p>
<p>Ryanone: Which site will she be going to? One thing I would recommend is to know an adequate amount of U.S. History because without my eighth grade U.S. history down (I was in seventh grade then), a lot of the text was much harder for me to understand as opposed to the ninth/tenth graders. Also, I was forced to go, and it was also before I had “come out of my shell”, so all the debates, discussions, and mock trials were difficult for me to participate in. Public speaking is still not my forte, but I still love law/civil rights so that’s the reason why I am thinking about going into becoming a social scientist/researcher (but that’s another story). However, I don’t think that would be a problem for your daughter. And one question: is your daughter homeschooled, or is she “attending” that online school as a supplement to her regular school?</p>
<p>hellosunshine: Thank you! What genres are your favorite?</p>
<p>My D already took AP US History in 9th grade and scored a 730 SAT II, so she already has a pretty good grasp of US History.</p>
<p>She’ll be taking it at Loyola Marymount, and is also going to law camp at UCLA.</p>