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Re: Rejected at undergraduate school, accepted at law school
LOL LSAT amirite?
It's good though, just crush that sucker and you're sitting pretty
Congrats!
(Also this isn't worth spending a lot of time thinking about)
It's good though, just crush that sucker and you're sitting pretty
Congrats!
(Also this isn't worth spending a lot of time thinking about)
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Re: Rejected at undergraduate school, accepted at law school
The law school admissions process is rather straightforward and numerically oriented, whereas UG admissions processes are very random and based off of soft factors (extracurriculars, diversity, family connections occasionally etc.) Your experience is very common. Don't worry about it.chargers21 wrote:Is anyone else having the experience of getting accepted for law school at universities that rejected them for undergraduate studies, or getting into law schools where you had 0 shot at the undergraduate school? I just feel like it's weird. I wasn't ivy league coming material coming out of high school, but apparently I am now, and I just find it to be an odd situation.
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Re: Rejected at undergraduate school, accepted at law school
If you screw around in high school, enormous possibility that you won't get into the Ivies.
If you screw around in UG, no worries, just crush the LSAT and nearly everywhere will accept you with open arms.
If you screw around in UG, no worries, just crush the LSAT and nearly everywhere will accept you with open arms.
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Re: Rejected at undergraduate school, accepted at law school
Well when I was 14, 15, 16, I wasn't the best student. It was hard for 14-year-old me to visualize my math homework having an impact on where I would go to college.
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Ugh, this is minor-ly infuriating for someone who worked insanely hard all 4 years of UG to get a kickass GPA.Purple Post It Note wrote:+1, slacked in both HS/UG and graduated with a mediocre GPA. I was going to be content with a T50 regional law school. Never thought t14s were within the realm of possibility until I got my LSAT score.Thomas Hagan, ESQ. wrote:If you screw around in high school, enormous possibility that you won't get into the Ivies.
If you screw around in UG, no worries, just crush the LSAT and nearly everywhere will accept you with open arms.
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Re: Rejected at undergraduate school, accepted at law school
Most people at HLS had 0 chance of getting into Harvard College and most people at Harvard College will have 0 chance of getting into HLS.
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ha!jingosaur wrote:Most people at HLS had 0 chance of getting into Harvard College and most people at Harvard College will have 0 chance of getting into HLS.
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Yep nearly every one would be better off studying for the LSAT for four years instead. Standardizing education is the wave of the future.katthegreat11 wrote:Ugh, this is minor-ly infuriating for someone who worked insanely hard all 4 years of UG to get a kickass GPA.Purple Post It Note wrote:+1, slacked in both HS/UG and graduated with a mediocre GPA. I was going to be content with a T50 regional law school. Never thought t14s were within the realm of possibility until I got my LSAT score.Thomas Hagan, ESQ. wrote:If you screw around in high school, enormous possibility that you won't get into the Ivies.
If you screw around in UG, no worries, just crush the LSAT and nearly everywhere will accept you with open arms.
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Same. I should've just worked my ass off for the first two years and then only study for the LSAT for the last 2 LOLkatthegreat11 wrote:Ugh, this is minor-ly infuriating for someone who worked insanely hard all 4 years of UG to get a kickass GPA.Purple Post It Note wrote:+1, slacked in both HS/UG and graduated with a mediocre GPA. I was going to be content with a T50 regional law school. Never thought t14s were within the realm of possibility until I got my LSAT score.Thomas Hagan, ESQ. wrote:If you screw around in high school, enormous possibility that you won't get into the Ivies.
If you screw around in UG, no worries, just crush the LSAT and nearly everywhere will accept you with open arms.
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Re: Rejected at undergraduate school, accepted at law school
This isn't an odd situation at all. Cornell's undergrad acceptance rate is 14%. Cornell Law's acceptance rate is 31%. You weren't in the 14%, but you're in the 31% now. Nothing weird about it.chargers21 wrote:Is anyone else having the experience of getting accepted for law school at universities that rejected them for undergraduate studies, or getting into law schools where you had 0 shot at the undergraduate school? I just feel like it's weird. I wasn't ivy league coming material coming out of high school, but apparently I am now, and I just find it to be an odd situation.
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Re: Rejected at undergraduate school, accepted at law school
Reverse. Can't get into my school's t14 law school. 171 LSAT.
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That isn't really how the process works...addie1412 wrote:This isn't an odd situation at all. Cornell's undergrad acceptance rate is 14%. Cornell Law's acceptance rate is 31%. You weren't in the 14%, but you're in the 31% now. Nothing weird about it.chargers21 wrote:Is anyone else having the experience of getting accepted for law school at universities that rejected them for undergraduate studies, or getting into law schools where you had 0 shot at the undergraduate school? I just feel like it's weird. I wasn't ivy league coming material coming out of high school, but apparently I am now, and I just find it to be an odd situation.
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Don't be a K-JD you goofball. You can easily have both of these things.Thomas Hagan, ESQ. wrote:Same. I should've just worked my ass off for the first two years and then only study for the LSAT for the last 2 LOLkatthegreat11 wrote:Ugh, this is minor-ly infuriating for someone who worked insanely hard all 4 years of UG to get a kickass GPA.Purple Post It Note wrote:+1, slacked in both HS/UG and graduated with a mediocre GPA. I was going to be content with a T50 regional law school. Never thought t14s were within the realm of possibility until I got my LSAT score.Thomas Hagan, ESQ. wrote:If you screw around in high school, enormous possibility that you won't get into the Ivies.
If you screw around in UG, no worries, just crush the LSAT and nearly everywhere will accept you with open arms.
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Re: Rejected at undergraduate school, accepted at law school
Lol no. Besides, for fields other than law GPA still matters (it matters for law, too, especially if you're looking for money, just not quite as much as LSAT).Justtrying2help wrote:Yep nearly every one would be better off studying for the LSAT for four years instead. Standardizing education is the wave of the future.katthegreat11 wrote:Ugh, this is minor-ly infuriating for someone who worked insanely hard all 4 years of UG to get a kickass GPA.Purple Post It Note wrote:+1, slacked in both HS/UG and graduated with a mediocre GPA. I was going to be content with a T50 regional law school. Never thought t14s were within the realm of possibility until I got my LSAT score.Thomas Hagan, ESQ. wrote:If you screw around in high school, enormous possibility that you won't get into the Ivies.
If you screw around in UG, no worries, just crush the LSAT and nearly everywhere will accept you with open arms.
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Re: Rejected at undergraduate school, accepted at law school
chargers21 wrote:
I want to be a K-JD student because I'm hoping to have a stable job before having kids, and I'd like to have kids before being ancient. I wouldn't call that type of thinking being a "goofball"
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I'm not a K-JD but thank you for the name calling lol.BigZuck wrote:Don't be a K-JD you goofball. You can easily have both of these things.Thomas Hagan, ESQ. wrote:Same. I should've just worked my ass off for the first two years and then only study for the LSAT for the last 2 LOLkatthegreat11 wrote:Ugh, this is minor-ly infuriating for someone who worked insanely hard all 4 years of UG to get a kickass GPA.Purple Post It Note wrote:+1, slacked in both HS/UG and graduated with a mediocre GPA. I was going to be content with a T50 regional law school. Never thought t14s were within the realm of possibility until I got my LSAT score.Thomas Hagan, ESQ. wrote:If you screw around in high school, enormous possibility that you won't get into the Ivies.
If you screw around in UG, no worries, just crush the LSAT and nearly everywhere will accept you with open arms.
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I didn't call you a goofball or a K-JDkatthegreat11 wrote:I'm not a K-JD but thank you for the name calling lol.BigZuck wrote:Don't be a K-JD you goofball. You can easily have both of these things.Thomas Hagan, ESQ. wrote:Same. I should've just worked my ass off for the first two years and then only study for the LSAT for the last 2 LOLkatthegreat11 wrote:Ugh, this is minor-ly infuriating for someone who worked insanely hard all 4 years of UG to get a kickass GPA.Purple Post It Note wrote:+1, slacked in both HS/UG and graduated with a mediocre GPA. I was going to be content with a T50 regional law school. Never thought t14s were within the realm of possibility until I got my LSAT score.Thomas Hagan, ESQ. wrote:If you screw around in high school, enormous possibility that you won't get into the Ivies.
If you screw around in UG, no worries, just crush the LSAT and nearly everywhere will accept you with open arms.
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