3.6 GPA 162 LSAT Fordham Part Time

[stressed2010]

What are my chances with 1 year of legal work experience? Do they really care all that much about the amount of WE? I think my numbers are pretty much at their medians.

[Columbia Law]

Sorry, you really have no chance. You have a low GPA for Fordham's new numbers and a pretty low lsat for Fordham. My bro got waitlisted with a 3.9/164. I would retake and get 165 or enjoy a 75% scholarship to St. Johns

[tesoro]

Extremely unlikely unless you're a URM. Almost everyone in the PT division has legal experience, and at least half of them paralegaled.

PT standards = FT standards now. Get your LSAT up to 166 and you have at least a 50/50 chance, 167 and you should be in. But 162 is far too low with your GPA. You must retake.

Take a look at LSN for last year's cycle. Notice an incredibly low amount of outliers left of the 166 wall with GPAs similar to yours.

[stressed2010]

Thanks for the advice guys. I didn't know that part time got so competitive.

[stressed2010]

Does this mean the stats on the fordham website are outdated? Just checked and it says the median lsat is 163 and gpa is at 3.42.

[Columbia Law]

Cut part time program in half so (even though I know the calculus isn't this simple) but the 163 would be around the new 25%tile.

[hijodehombre]

You're right about the medians, but notice the applicant profile.

3.50-3.74 and 160-164: 800 apps, 128 adm

3.50-3.74 and 165-169: 584 apps, 421 adm

[stressed2010]

this is very helpful data. where did you get it? lsn?

[hijodehombre]

lsac: http://officialguide.lsac.org/Release/O ... fault.aspx

[curly3426]

with all due respect... you are using data that reflects the entirety of the applicant pool - so im not sure how you jumped to the conclusion that a 163 reflects 25%, but I may have simply misread

my roommate applied to part-time program, no legal experience - accounting, with a 3.3 from BC business school UG and a 161 and was waitlisted