An unusual UG background
Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2012 3:35 am
Basically I would like to know where the fine patrons of this particular forum would chance me for law programs (any recommendations within the top 50, otherwise save the energy), given a rather unorthodox undergraduate career.
-So I graduated with honors from NYU Tisch with a BFA in drama this last year. I somehow managed to complete another major in economic policy, within which I wrote a thesis and also received honors. I also have a minor in math and a minor in performance studies, but please don't assume I was taking summer school and extra credits the whole time, when there is in fact a much less impressive explanation. I went to Tisch because I love acting, and I felt a strong desire to pursue collegiate level training in that field (in particular elizabethan era drama, but thats irrelevant i'm guessing). I ALSO knew however, that (because I come into NYU with credits towards the econ major and math minor) I could do a bunch of stuff without having to go through some BS, preordained, liberal education program (hence the additional minors). Instead I opted to roll around on the floor touching a bunch of other actors for 2 years whilst engaging a rigorous, academic, field of study (I completed the theatre program early). I certainly don't regret it, and I loved college, but around my senior year, law school started to sound really appealing, and the summer after I graduated, I took the lsat and got a 173. I was wondering if, with that information, you might be able to say what schools might be interested in me, and which school will just toss my application because I have a degree in fine art, instead of art (lol). Oh (this is important) I had a 3.85 coming out of college (a 3.8 in theatre and a 3.92 somthing in econ).
Also, some softs
-I volunteer on the border with an organization that leaves water for undocumented migrants
-I was on the deans list for 2 years
-I have produced my own theatre both in Arizona (where I am from) and in New York
-I have been working as an actor since last summer (when I graduated)
-I had an paid internship with a medical malpractice firm in Phoenix writing deposition summaries and conducting interviews for informal disclosure statements
-I have held 13 jobs since the age of 14, I won't go into all of them now, but they range from summer councilor, to welder and lighting technician, to telecommunications person, to crane operator, etc. etc.
-I am mexican american (I hear this helps)
-I am a trained symposium leader for an environmental group operating out of San Fran that deals directly with indigenous tribes in the eastern region of the Ecuadorian Amazon
-I was part of MUNNYU
Looking back on what I have just written, I would completely understand if you thought I was full of shit, but i'm not, I promise, I just had an unconventional upbringing, which lead to my having a proclivity for unconventional life choices.
So let me know!
(Also, forgive my flagrant and unabashed use of parenthetical insertions (
))
-So I graduated with honors from NYU Tisch with a BFA in drama this last year. I somehow managed to complete another major in economic policy, within which I wrote a thesis and also received honors. I also have a minor in math and a minor in performance studies, but please don't assume I was taking summer school and extra credits the whole time, when there is in fact a much less impressive explanation. I went to Tisch because I love acting, and I felt a strong desire to pursue collegiate level training in that field (in particular elizabethan era drama, but thats irrelevant i'm guessing). I ALSO knew however, that (because I come into NYU with credits towards the econ major and math minor) I could do a bunch of stuff without having to go through some BS, preordained, liberal education program (hence the additional minors). Instead I opted to roll around on the floor touching a bunch of other actors for 2 years whilst engaging a rigorous, academic, field of study (I completed the theatre program early). I certainly don't regret it, and I loved college, but around my senior year, law school started to sound really appealing, and the summer after I graduated, I took the lsat and got a 173. I was wondering if, with that information, you might be able to say what schools might be interested in me, and which school will just toss my application because I have a degree in fine art, instead of art (lol). Oh (this is important) I had a 3.85 coming out of college (a 3.8 in theatre and a 3.92 somthing in econ).
Also, some softs
-I volunteer on the border with an organization that leaves water for undocumented migrants
-I was on the deans list for 2 years
-I have produced my own theatre both in Arizona (where I am from) and in New York
-I have been working as an actor since last summer (when I graduated)
-I had an paid internship with a medical malpractice firm in Phoenix writing deposition summaries and conducting interviews for informal disclosure statements
-I have held 13 jobs since the age of 14, I won't go into all of them now, but they range from summer councilor, to welder and lighting technician, to telecommunications person, to crane operator, etc. etc.
-I am mexican american (I hear this helps)
-I am a trained symposium leader for an environmental group operating out of San Fran that deals directly with indigenous tribes in the eastern region of the Ecuadorian Amazon
-I was part of MUNNYU
Looking back on what I have just written, I would completely understand if you thought I was full of shit, but i'm not, I promise, I just had an unconventional upbringing, which lead to my having a proclivity for unconventional life choices.
So let me know!
(Also, forgive my flagrant and unabashed use of parenthetical insertions (
