Hi guys!
I'm a second-year student at UCLA. I'll give you some info about where I am at currently. I am an International Development Studies major with minors in History and Central&Eastern European Studies. My GPA is 3.883. I couldn't do any extracurriculars last year as my entire education was online, lol (do they care about this????) but this year I have 2 jobs and am looking into doing some volunteer work.
I just recently had a degree-planning meeting and realized that, oh CRAP, I am due to graduate a year early. Spring 2023. This is primarily due to the fact that I satisfied nearly all of my GE requirements in high school with AP tests.
I guess my main question for you all is, does it look bad if I graduate early? Do I have lower chances of getting into law school if I got my degree in 3 years? Does it matter that I went to a good undergrad? I've known that I want to go to law school for a long time now, but I do not know where to start in terms of looking at schools. I think I am interested in immigration law, or human rights stuff (clearly I do not even know the terminology), and should that influence what schools I look at? Is the specific type of law you want to go into decided while you are at law school?
Clearly, any type of advice would be GREATLY appreciated. I am pretty stressed, and am not keen on taking a gap year, but just wanna see if this is hurting me at all. Thanks so much.
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Based on the analysis of u/wakkawakkahideaway, I feel pretty confident that the people being listed as "cisgender nonbinary" are in actuality gender nonconforming.
This is because there were two surveys, one for people that identified as a gender different than their assigned sex (TransPop survey) and another for people that identified as a gender the same as their assigned sex (Generations survey). However, within the latter survey, an option of "nonbinary/genderqueer" was provided. A lot of cisgender as well as transgender people have been known to use both "nonbinary" and "genderqueer" to connote defiance of binary gender stereotypes, regardless of actual self-identity (as these terms are oftentimes conflated with gender nonconforming). Some butch lesbians, for example, call themselves "nonbinary lesbians", even though they identify exclusively as female.
Therefore, I wouldn't be surprised if many of the so-called "cisgender" respondents were simply using nonbinary/genderqueer to mean gender nonconforming. If that is the case, it would have outstanding ramifications -- given that a significant proportion of the people being reported as cisgender "nonbinary" might actually be gender nonconforming.
Unfortunately, we can't take away anything particularly conclusive from the findings of "cisgender" nonbinary people other than to extrapolate that it probably accounts for many gender nonconforming people that are not transgender. This is just a continuation of the never-ending saga that we face as gender nonconforming people -- frequently being shoehorned into studies of trans and nonbinary people that serve to erase us as a demographic or significantly under-estimate our population sizes.
GPA: 3.2
LSAT: 174
Application date 12/08/2020
Still waiting to hear from others, but if UCLA is the only one who takes me - not bad! I'm just so excited, I'm having a hard time focusing on work.
I am not one of those people that frankly care about things like that, my undergrad is just buildings. Am I the only one that loves UCLA Law's campus? I like UCLA in general. Their law school isn't too big, and the general area is nice. I was able to walk from Westwood (SD) to the law school in 12 minutes (using a shortcut). I never realized the appearance of a library or a campus mattered so much. I fully understand the significance of location but not the aesthetic aspect that matters so much.
Btw, Berkeley is beautiful. I have never seen such a beautiful campus. THEY HAD A CREEK/LAKE (idk what it was). My god, so beautiful. I go to Columbia so I see buildings 24/7. This was the first time I saw a campus-campus and it blew my mind. Please suggest other campuses like Berkeley (doesn't matter if they are law schools).I would love to google them and see nice images. Seriously, some of you go to school in the prettiest places in the world.
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Based on the analysis of u/wakkawakkahideaway, I feel pretty confident that the people being listed as "cisgender nonbinary" are in actuality gender nonconforming.
This is because there were two surveys, one for people that identified as a gender different than their assigned sex (TransPop survey) and another for people that identified as a gender the same as their assigned sex (Generations survey). However, within the latter survey, an option of "nonbinary/genderqueer" was provided. A lot of cisgender as well as transgender people have been known to use both "nonbinary" and "genderqueer" to connote defiance of binary gender stereotypes, regardless of actual self-identity (as these terms are oftentimes conflated with gender nonconforming). Some butch lesbians, for example, call themselves "nonbinary lesbians", even though they identify exclusively as female.
Therefore, I wouldn't be surprised if many of the so-called "cisgender" respondents were simply using nonbinary/genderqueer to mean gender nonconforming. If that is the case, it would have outstanding ramifications -- given that a significant proportion of the people being reported as cisgender "nonbinary" might actually be gender nonconforming.
Unfortunately, we can't take away anything particularly conclusive from the findings of "cisgender nonbinary" people other than to extrapolate that it probably accounts for many gender nonconforming people that are not transgender. This is just a continuation of the never-ending saga that we face as gender nonconforming people -- frequently being shoehorned into studies of trans and nonbinary people that serve to erase us as a demographic or significantly under-estimate our population sizes.
