3.97 GPA 165 LSAT URM Forum

[zmaldo45]

Mexican, graduated from UCLA summa cum laude.
I'm applying to 9/10 top 10 schools plus some lower teen schools.
Curious about these.
Harvard
Stanford
Columbia
Chicago
Penn
Berkeley
NYU
I am just curious about my chances with my apps being sent off in early January. Especially about Harvard and Stanford. Harvard is my only "reach" school according to some probability calculations, but I don't have high hopes. So what are my chances?

[Mikey]

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[runinthefront]

[Wvwv123]

Mexican, graduated from UCLA summa cum laude.
I'm applying to 9/10 top 10 schools plus some lower teen schools.
Curious about these.
Harvard
Stanford
Columbia
Chicago
Penn
Berkeley
NYU
I am just curious about my chances with my apps being sent off in early January. Especially about Harvard and Stanford. Harvard is my only "reach" school according to some probability calculations, but I don't have high hopes. So what are my chances?

Y and S are out for you unless you get a better LSAT score, but H is a possibility. I think you have a very good shot at Chicago and NYU. Columbia prefers high LSATs over high GPAs, so you might get rejected there, but you do have a shot. You'll get into Berekley. I don't know anything about Penn except that they waitlist a lot of URMs

[fliptrip]

Mexican, graduated from UCLA summa cum laude.
I'm applying to 9/10 top 10 schools plus some lower teen schools.
Curious about these.
Harvard
Stanford
Columbia
Chicago
Penn
Berkeley
NYU
I am just curious about my chances with my apps being sent off in early January. Especially about Harvard and Stanford. Harvard is my only "reach" school according to some probability calculations, but I don't have high hopes. So what are my chances?

Y and S are out for you unless you get a better LSAT score, but H is a possibility. I think you have a very good shot at Chicago and NYU. Columbia prefers high LSATs over high GPAs, so you might get rejected there, but you do have a shot. You'll get into Berekley. I don't know anything about Penn except that they waitlist a lot of URMs

Two things...ol' Penn waitlists a lot of everyone, so I think the default expectation for just about anyone is a w/l from there. And Berkeley's too much of a black box to speak definitively about anyone's chances there, but as long as you work really hard to write a B specific PS you should have a good shot.

[fliptrip]

Sorry, one other thing...I don't see why you wouldn't just throw a Yale Mary too...your GPA is really great and I'm sure the profs recommending you will rave about you in your rec letters. Your chance there isn't absolutely zero. Who knows, you might just have that right special sauce.

Or, and sorry to beat this well worn drum...retake the LSAT. If you got a 165 and have that super GPA you're plenty smart enough to get to 170. I don't have time to do the LSN analysis, but I bet a 170 non-AA URM with your GPA sees pretty significantly altered chances.