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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is OP: back to see what you all had to say and in reading this thread seeing some comments were deleted which is strange. For PP's who posted school lists please re-post if you don't mind!

[b]Anyone with experience with University of Hawaii? I know that's slightly lower than T200 but curious - DC was intrigued by the focus on Asian studies/Japanese.[/b] They don't have a true "pre-law" but rather legal studies. Worried it's a suitcase school with such a high % of non-mainland students…

3.9 UW, excellent EC's and out of school volunteerism both with long time commitment & leadership. Rigorous class schedule, two different Honors science classes per year so far (school offers as EC's in other subjects apart from the usual Bio/Chem etc. e.g. Neuroscience Honors). DC is in 10th grade, we have time but I'd like to learn more about options all over the board vs. just focusing on T20 schools that seem so incredibly hard to get into year in/year out based on what I read on the boards here. Trying to cast a wide net, not have DC get their heart set on one school and feel celebratory when the time comes they get into a school they love based on what it offers and the fit and not that it fits into some mold of a "name" or rank. [/quote]

A student doesn't have to major in pre-law to become a lawyer. The types of schools my kid was looking at might have a pre-law advisor but not a pre-law major--they'd major in any subject of their choice.[/quote]

I'm familiar with U of Hawaii.  Top students from Punahou avoid it and go stateside for their education.  It is a backup school for the better students. I would avoid the Asian studies/Japanese because so many of the students at U of Hawaii are already part Japanese.  Lots of inhabitants on the islands are from Japanese/ Japanese, Japanese/Hawaiian or Japanese/U.S. serviceman marriages.  No that's not racist, it's a fact.  My roommate in college was the latter.  If you go into that particular major you are apt to hit the cultural appropriation Japanese who have lived with the racism they've experienced  on the islands their entire lives and don't see why a state-side kid should be studying their own culture. That would be her opinion.[/quote]

Great insight, thank you[/quote]

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