If I break 3.8, should I take a year off? Forum
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If I break 3.8, should I take a year off?
LSAT was 167 and GPA I applied with was 3.781.
If I do well enough this semester, I might be able to raise my GPA to over 3.8. If that happens, should I take a year off and reapply? Would that fraction of an increase offer more opportunities in terms of higher ranking schools/scholarships simply because it's over 3.8, or would that be irrelevant?
If I do well enough this semester, I might be able to raise my GPA to over 3.8. If that happens, should I take a year off and reapply? Would that fraction of an increase offer more opportunities in terms of higher ranking schools/scholarships simply because it's over 3.8, or would that be irrelevant?
- Dany
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Re: If I break 3.8, should I take a year off?
Can you also retake the LSAT? 170+/3.8 would mean a huge difference in schools and scholarships. I don't think a new cycle with the same LSAT and only marginally higher gpa will go much differently.
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Re: If I break 3.8, should I take a year off?
Dany wrote:Can you also retake the LSAT? 170+/3.8 would mean a huge difference in schools and scholarships. I don't think a new cycle with the same LSAT and only marginally higher gpa will go much differently.
- patrickd139
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Re: If I break 3.8, should I take a year off?
Hard pressed to think the difference between a 3.78 and a 3.8 is going to make any difference.gbpackerbacker wrote:Dany wrote:Can you also retake the LSAT? 170+/3.8 would mean a huge difference in schools and scholarships. I don't think a new cycle with the same LSAT and only marginally higher gpa will go much differently.
Edited because I apparently suck at S-V agreement.
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Re: If I break 3.8, should I take a year off?
Not really. Your cycle will be pretty much identical unless you retake the LSAT.
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- Bildungsroman
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Re: If I break 3.8, should I take a year off?
.02 doesn't make a difference.
- patrickd139
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Re: If I break 3.8, should I take a year off?
ITT: Mr. December learns the relative value of his GPA
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Re: If I break 3.8, should I take a year off?
I mean it could be a big difference if it crossed median. But no school comes to mind that OP would have a shot at with a 167 LSAT that has a GPA median between 3.78-3.8.
- Verity
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Re: If I break 3.8, should I take a year off?
Retake. Or ED to UVA.
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Re: If I break 3.8, should I take a year off?
He has no shot at UVA ED without residency. He is under both GPA/LSAT median.Verity wrote:Retake. Or ED to UVA.
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Re: If I break 3.8, should I take a year off?
Answer: Only take a year off if you're going to retake the LSAT too.
- Verity
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Re: If I break 3.8, should I take a year off?
No shit. Only giving OP the TLS auto-reply when asking for an obvious answer.FiveSermon wrote:He has no shot at UVA ED without residency. He is under both GPA/LSAT median.Verity wrote:Retake. Or ED to UVA.
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Re: If I break 3.8, should I take a year off?
Or if you are going to get some useful work/life experience. (But I advocate for everyone to take at least one year off.)bk187 wrote:Answer: Only take a year off if you're going to retake the LSAT too.
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Re: If I break 3.8, should I take a year off?
I agree. I realized that I was implying otherwise after I wrote that but was too lazy to edit.lzyovrachievr wrote:Or if you are going to get some useful work/life experience. (But I advocate for everyone to take at least one year off.)bk187 wrote:Answer: Only take a year off if you're going to retake the LSAT too.
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