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lalaland1987 wrote:I'm not sure what you mean by not considered a "traditional URM." Until there are more Hispanic Americans on Wall Street and Capitol Hill than waiting outside Home Depot, I'm pretty sure they are still an underrepresented minority.

lalaland1987 wrote:I graduation from Stanford with a 3.56 in Intl Relations.
LSAT = 156 (67th percentile).

I wanted to evaluate my decision to apply to the following schools : UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, Columbia, Duke, George Washington, Harvard, University of Michigan, New York University, Northwestern, University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford.

I'm looking to get into just one of these schools. But I realize now, that it is also possible I could be rejected from all 12 due to my low LSAT. If that were true, I think I would study for the LSAT for a year and reapply for the 2013 cycle. Unfortunately, I already do feel that I studied very hard and I'm not sure I could improve by much. I am not a great standardized test taker (My SAT score was
1960).

I was born in Costa Rica, but my parents immigrated to the US when I was young. My father is from Venezuela.

My personal statement focus on my experiences abroad in China and time working on a case as a paralegal for a law firm in New York. My diversity statement focuses on the differences in the law/democracy in Costa Rica (my mother's home country) versus my father's (venezuela), which has great political strife at the moment.

I speak Mandarin, French and Spanish. I am also an accomplished dancer- I was a member of Alvin Ailey II for a summer term and have performed in several dance companies in San Francisco and New York.

lalaland1987 wrote:I'm not sure what you mean by not considered a "traditional URM." Until there are more Hispanic Americans on Wall Street and Capitol Hill than waiting outside Home Depot, I'm pretty sure they are still an underrepresented minority.