LSAT: 173 (Nov. 2022) and 175 (Jan. 2023), so 174 average.
GPA: Technically 3.65 according to CAS, but I'll end undergrad with a 3.86 at the institution I'm graduating from. I also went to college for a year before high school and earned a 4.0, but then my parents also made me go to college when I dropped out of high school, and that didn't end well. I'll talk more about that in softs too.
Softs: So my parents weren't great (as the understatement of the century), and I ended up moving out when I was 15 years old. That's the same semester I dropped out of high school and went to college for a bit, but I was also actively dealing with Child Protective Services and adapting to a new home, so I'm pretty sure the bad grades are understandable. I plan on writing about my parents for my personal statement, but from the perspective of the meditation retreats I did in the years after leaving my parents -- they really helped me heal, and I still work for that organization as a committee member.
I'm also pretty much exclusively focused on pursuing PI, and my extracurriculars reflect that -- I was part of a group of BIPOC students who demanded the faculty change our curriculum (and it worked), I've done a bunch of stuff with my university's community engagement office, all that jazz. For a job after college and before law school, I'm applying to paralegal jobs in PI firms (e.g. civil rights and criminal defense) as well as theatre administration jobs, which is what my degree's in. Not sure exactly which one I'll do -- depends on who likes me!
Where I'm Applying: I'm gonna sweep T14 (see if I can leverage some scholarship money out of people) -- the ones I'm really interested in are Yale (but not betting on that at all), NYU, UC Berkeley, UMich, and Georgetown. Other than that, also applying to UCLA, UC Irvine, and CUNY -- I'm planning on living and working in NYC post-law school. Definitely open to recs for more places to apply! A diverse student body and a decent group of PI students are important to me, and I'd prefer a city or suburban setting.
Again, thanks for your help -- really appreciate it!
