Why Harvard Law School Students Are Exceptional?

By 2018, Harvard Law School expects approximately 5,207 applications. The number of admission offers will be around 931. Based on this prediction, a narrow window of 17.8% students will be offered admission at the prestigious law school. The 25^th percentiles of GPA acceptable will be 3.75, with the 75^th percentiles being 3.96. That is, the average acceptable GPA will be 3.86. As for the law admission test, LSAT scores, the 25^th percentiles will be 170, with the 75^th percentile being 175. The average acceptable LSAT score will be 173. These figures provide a clear idea about the students who are admitted into Harvard Law School. Some may call them geniuses. Others may qualify them as exceptional students. However, there is much more to these law students than their grades. To get admitted into this prestigious institute, exceptional grades are far from being enough. The students also need to be exceptional individuals, with mind-blowing extra-curricular activities. Here are the examples of three exceptional students who have made their way into Harvard Law School:

1. Angela Antony

This brilliant Harvard Law School student was one of the founders of an environmental media and software company, Beanstockd Media. Her company uses an interactive game to encourage green living. A virtual stock market is used as a platform to allow players to compete against one another. A personal stock is given to each player, depending on their environmental footprint. Angela Antony won the MTV Young Creators’ Award because of this company. She also won the Knight Foundation News Challenge. Besides these achievements, she was featured in U.S. News and World Report. She was also featured in Young Money Magazine and Businessweek.

2. Lara Berlin

Lara Berlin, another exceptional Harvard Law School student, works towards eradicating human right abuses worldwide. After graduation from Yale University, Lara Berlin attended studied conflict resolution by going to Sierra Leone. She also studied the obstacles female candidates face during local elections. She has also written primers related to conflict resolution while working on a project for the U.S. Agency for International Development. Lara Berlin was also at the Center for Civilians in Conflict, based in Washington D.C, to research the effect of covert drone activities on civilians yeapharmacy.com.

3. Alex Harris

A published author and founder of a youth-targeted organization, Alex Harris challenges the low expectations of teenagers. Alex Harris was still in high school when he joined hands with his twin brother to start The Rebelution. It is a non-profit whose purpose is to challenge low expectations of teens. After six and a half years, Harris counted five employees, more than fifty volunteers and over 50,000 who attended his conferences. Besides this huge achievement, Harris is also a published author who has co-written two books namely “Do Hard Things: A Teenage Rebellion Against Low Expectations” and “Start Here: Doing Hard Things Right Where You Are”. His books sales amount to almost half a million copies.

Conclusion

All Harvard Law School students are just as notable as these three. Their GPAs and LSAT scores are undoubtedly impressive, but their personality is no less. The one thing that these students have in common is their will to bring about a change. They are either fighting for the good of humanity, to protect human rights, for the eradication of abuses, inspiring people through their writing or reaching out to people in other ways. But they are all doing something. They are definitely not sitting idle or merely attending classes and taking exams. This is the kind of people Harvard Law School wants: exceptional students.

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