Transfer Forum

[jerome1]

When you apply to transfer...

1. Do the schools look at LSAT scores in the previous year, or they don't really care for it and mainly look at how well they do in the first year?

2. Top law schools would accept students from Unranked school? Let's say, hypothetically, some top 5% Southwestern student wants to transfer to USC, could this happen?

[BigZuck]

Retake the LSAT

You won't finish in the top 1%

Getting a higher LSAT score is much, much easier than doing well in law school

Come on

[DoveBodyWash]

Retake the LSAT

You won't finish in the top 1%

Getting a higher LSAT score is much, much easier than doing well in law school

Come on

Agreed. The LSAT is 100 multiple choice questions...It's much easier than finishing in the TOP 1% of your class after 6-8 rounds of finals depending on what the 1L schedule looks like.

[nightcheese]

+1 retake

General consensus around here is don't go to a school expecting to transfer somewhere else. Don't go in expecting to be the top person in your class. Southwestern's class size is 350-400 students each year. The odds are not in your favor.

[tabula rasa]

So let me get this straight: you did really, really poorly on the LSAT, but you're going to get great marks in all your law school classes where your grades are dictated by a single exam?

Southwestern is a raging tire fire of a school. Less than 40% of their students secure any kind of full-time legal position after graduation, most of which is of the shit-law variety.

Pepperdine is just slightly less of a raging tire fire. Just over half of their students secure some sort of full-time legal position after graduation.

You should never attend a school that you don't intend to graduate from. And even if you are able to transfer, how are you planning to service the kind of sticker debt you will likely be paying?

You need to not only retake the LSAT, you need to score about 20 points higher if you want law school to become an even remotely acceptable proposition. You should probably really walk away from attending law school altogether and avoid making a life-ruining decision.

[Ti Malice]

Please first explain to us why you think you'll wind up in the top 5% of your class at Southwestern after 1L.