The Ambitious Armenian | Columbia Undergrad & Harvard JD : Danielle Mikaelian

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Danielle Mikaelian is a Columbia University graduate with a BA in English Literature. She occupied positions on over ten Columbia executive boards, being named Columbia's 2021 Student of the Year, a King's Crown Leadership and Excellence Award Recipient for Community Building, a Robert Harron Award recipient, an Alumni Prize Finalist, and a member of the National Residence Hall Honorary. Some highlights of Danielle's Columbia experience included serving as Wellness Chair for Columbia's undergraduate and graduate schools, being elected to the board of Columbia's Undergraduate Law Review, overseeing all student publications as Head of Publications for the Activities Board, and acting as President of the Columbia Armenian Society. She also interned at SAGE Publications, a major publishing company, for two summers in a row. Danielle built off her editorial experience at SAGE by becoming Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Women in Law and Politics Journal and acting as an editor for the Columbia Journal of History and Columbia Journal of Global Health.

Danielle Mikaelian is currently in her third year at Harvard Law School. At Harvard Law, she is a Dean's Scholar Prize Recipient and an executive board member of the Harvard Association for Law and Business. Danielle Mikaelian has also worked as a Student Attorney for Harvard's Cyberlaw Clinic, Entrepreneurship Project, and Recording Artists Project. She has served as Co-Managing Editor for the Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law, a Submissions Editor for the Human Rights Journal, an Editor for the Business Law Review, and an Editor for the International Law Journal. For the past semester, she has been working alongside the Federal Reserve of Boston as a Legal Fellow.

Outside of school, Danielle Mikaelian is a published poet who has been named a 2024 Akerman Scholar, a 2024-2025 Ms. JD Fellow, a two time Huys Foundation Scholar, an Armenian Bar Association scholarship recipient, an Arisdine Krikorian scholarship recipient, a WhoWeAre scholarship recipient, an ArmeniansForSuccess scholarship recipient, and a Ms. JD Law Student Limitless Leadership Award recipient. She plans to move to New York after graduating to work in transactional law and is dedicated to mentoring the next generation of law students. Danielle Mikaelian has spoken at schools like Columbia, UCLA, Berkeley, and USC to help provide advice to aspiring law school applicants.

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1. The Ambitious Armenian | Columbia Undergrad & Harvard JD : Danielle Mikaelian (00:00:00)

2. High School in Thousand Oaks (00:00:34)

3. Why Columbia (00:01:50)

4. Career Goals & Extra Curriculars while applying (00:04:20)

5. Picking recommenders (00:07:06)

6. The Columbia Experience (00:08:20)

7. Why Law (00:12:05)

8. LSAT Prep (00:15:00)

9. Picking Recommenders for Law School (00:15:55)

10. Applying to T14 (00:16:43)

11. Highlights of the Application (00:18:20)

12. Learning at Harvard Law (00:20:26)

13. Extra-curricular activities at HLS (00:22:13)

14. Entertainment Law (00:24:44)

15. Post JD Goals (00:26:11)

16. Job Search for International JD Students (00:26:36)

17. Plans for New York (00:28:40)

18. Definition of Success (00:29:32)