Young Experianced Computer Technician for HLS?

Graduate School Law School
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<p>I’m a 24 y/o Computer technician of four years, from all sorts of jobs for a solid foundation of experience, currently only as certified as I need per job. I’m offered free training from work to further my certifications, even.</p>

<p>I live on my own and have since age 22 and never went to college or even took the SAT.</p>

<p>I have the impossible dream of HLS and have read and researched into the dream for the past year. I read Toby’s blog, read posts here almost religiously, and have been on and off training (bad economy) for the SAT shooting for as high to a perfect score as I can with hopes of getting into a great undergrad school.</p>

<p>Undecided in major, but here’s where this thread comes in.</p>

<p>I’m a computer technician. It’s 2009. In 1989 is was an entirely different world for computers. Even in 1999 it might have been very different. Today everything revolves around the internet/PCs/software, it seems, and I’ve been in high demand.</p>

<p>I’ve never seen any statistics or read anything anywhere of microsoft certified technicians and the type going to law schools, much less T-14.</p>

<p>I haven’t even gone to college. I’m extremely wary of the idea of computer science since I’m paid now as if I had the degree anyways.</p>

<p>Another note is my personal preference is psychology/sociology. I’m highly analytical of social workings to the core and do it unconsciously (the analyzing).</p>

<p>Is my current wealth in experiance / certification as a computer technician a good strength to work on towards a crazy goal like HLS? I can probably get the Microsoft Engineer certifications with some personal training with more ease than I can grind towards a perfect score on the SAT (atleast on my level of confidence). Should I concentrate on computer clubs and related internships and such if I applied for a top law school?</p>

<p>I wanted to start this topic to shed some light on just how this asset of mine can be assessed towards something like a T-14 law school.</p>

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<p>you could do information science…or info systems…a derivative of the more theoretical computer science…</p>

<p>or just w/e you find interesting…</p>

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<p>At this point, the goal is to focus on college. Once you’re in college, get good grades. Towards the end, take the LSAT. That’ll tell you whether HLS is in play or not.</p>

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<p>Mike is absolutely right. Whatever your background is, getting an undergraduate degree, a great GPA, and a great LSAT score will lead you to a great law school.</p>

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<p>After a year of looking into this I’ve found LSAT + GPA being top notch is a given. But it’s become almost an obvious thing to me for those to be more important.</p>

<p>I’m curious on how other things fall into play to make the best choices.</p>

<p>I’ve never ever ever read of a computer technician doing it. Musicians, athletes, and a few others in branches that could do well on their own before law school are all I have seen.</p>

<p>Has anyone heard of anything that would help me? Or met anyone like this?</p>

<p>I’d like to know if I should work on that strength, or leave it as a well-developed part of my personality and flourish in something else I love (the social sciences, for example).</p>

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<p>It probably won’t matter either way. It’s really LSAT and GPA at this point.</p>

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<p>I have a good friend who earned numerous computer certifications on the way to getting a masters in computer science, and a law degree from a top 14 school.</p>