162 3.6 urm MA -- Help meh! Forum

[robertrulez]

Got my LSAT back, was my last try so no retakes. Texas resident here, I've already been accepted to a local school with good big law prospects and with my 162, I'll be eligible for max scholarship and combined with 60 hours in vet benefits, I'd be going to school for free with livig expenses covered. I like the idea of being a big fish in a pool of small fish, I'm sure I'll be able to get into the top 10 easily. But if I wait another cycle I would have a decent chance at UT (I personally know other MA with similar numbers who got in). I'd also have those 60 hours of vet benefits but scholarship would probably be skimp.
2 options: 1)Go to UH this fall with decent big law prospects and 0 debt. 2)wait a cycle for a chance at UT and get into around 40-50k worth of debt.
All opinions appreciated.

[BVest]

Got my LSAT back, was my last try so no retakes. Texas resident here, I've already been accepted to a local school with good big law prospects and with my 162, I'll be eligible for max scholarship and combined with 60 hours in vet benefits, I'd be going to school for free with livig expenses covered. I like the idea of being a big fish in a pool of small fish, I'm sure I'll be able to get into the top 10 easily. But if I wait another cycle I would have a decent chance at UT (I personally know other MA with similar numbers who got in). I'd also have those 60 hours of vet benefits but scholarship would probably be skimp.
2 options: 1)Go to local school this fall with decent big law prospects and 0 debt. 2)wait a cycle for a chance at UT and get into around 40-50k worth of debt.
All opinions appreciated.

If you're talking UH I'd probably go with that. But don't expect to necessarily be big fish.

[stego]

I like the idea of being a big fish in a pool of small fish, I'm sure I'll be able to get into the top 10 easily.

This is not a certainty. At most schools, grades in a class are based on one exam on a forced curve. Some people who did awesome in undergrad do poorly in law school and vice versa. It's better to assume going in that you'll have median grades.

[robertrulez]

I like the idea of being a big fish in a pool of small fish, I'm sure I'll be able to get into the top 10 easily.

This is not a certainty. At most schools, grades in a class are based on one exam on a forced curve. Some people who did awesome in undergrad do poorly in law school and vice versa. It's better to assume going in that you'll have median grades.

I understand this and I know correlation=/=causation, but statistically, I will probably end up at the top of my class. I know this for a variety of reasons/factors but mainly because I'd be living at home so mom will be taking care of me while I study all day and night.

[hartfordhockaloogies]

I like the idea of being a big fish in a pool of small fish, I'm sure I'll be able to get into the top 10 easily.

This is not a certainty. At most schools, grades in a class are based on one exam on a forced curve. Some people who did awesome in undergrad do poorly in law school and vice versa. It's better to assume going in that you'll have median grades.

I understand this and I know correlation=/=causation, but statistically, I will probably end up at the top of my class. I know this for a variety of reasons/factors but mainly because I'd be living at home so mom will be taking care of me while I study all day and night.

You literally sound retarded. You need to sit out a year because you are immature

[robertrulez]

I like the idea of being a big fish in a pool of small fish, I'm sure I'll be able to get into the top 10 easily.

This is not a certainty. At most schools, grades in a class are based on one exam on a forced curve. Some people who did awesome in undergrad do poorly in law school and vice versa. It's better to assume going in that you'll have median grades.

I understand this and I know correlation=/=causation, but statistically, I will probably end up at the top of my class. I know this for a variety of reasons/factors but mainly because I'd be living at home so mom will be taking care of me while I study all day and night.

You literally sound retarded. You need to sit out a year because you are immature

You're a great help, bud.

[kingpin101]

I like the idea of being a big fish in a pool of small fish, I'm sure I'll be able to get into the top 10 easily.

This is not a certainty. At most schools, grades in a class are based on one exam on a forced curve. Some people who did awesome in undergrad do poorly in law school and vice versa. It's better to assume going in that you'll have median grades.

I understand this and I know correlation=/=causation, but statistically, I will probably end up at the top of my class. I know this for a variety of reasons/factors but mainly because I'd be living at home so mom will be taking care of me while I study all day and night.

You literally sound retarded. You need to sit out a year because you are immature

You're a great help, bud.

Man I hope for your sake that this is a flame.

[Stillblade]

I like the idea of being a big fish in a pool of small fish, I'm sure I'll be able to get into the top 10 easily.

This is not a certainty. At most schools, grades in a class are based on one exam on a forced curve. Some people who did awesome in undergrad do poorly in law school and vice versa. It's better to assume going in that you'll have median grades.

I understand this and I know correlation=/=causation, but statistically, I will probably end up at the top of my class. I know this for a variety of reasons/factors but mainly because I'd be living at home so mom will be taking care of me while I study all day and night.

You literally sound retarded. You need to sit out a year because you are immature

You're a great help, bud.

I wouldn't have said it like he did but he's right, that comment reeks of immaturity. I don't even understand what it means, are you trying to say that you'll DEFINITELY finish in the top 10% of your class because your mom will do your laundry and cook for you?

[DaRascal]

I like the idea of being a big fish in a pool of small fish, I'm sure I'll be able to get into the top 10 easily.

This is not a certainty. At most schools, grades in a class are based on one exam on a forced curve. Some people who did awesome in undergrad do poorly in law school and vice versa. It's better to assume going in that you'll have median grades.

I understand this and I know correlation=/=causation, but statistically, I will probably end up at the top of my class. I know this for a variety of reasons/factors but mainly because I'd be living at home so mom will be taking care of me while I study all day and night.

You literally sound retarded. You need to sit out a year because you are immature

LOL. This guy's furious.


UH for sure. Work as hard as you can for the best grades possible. Lower T14 or UT would be debt traps that'll drain you of your sanity even with small scholarships because you'll end up needing to work a grueling biglaw job for free for a few years.

[A. Nony Mouse]

I like the idea of being a big fish in a pool of small fish, I'm sure I'll be able to get into the top 10 easily.

This is not a certainty. At most schools, grades in a class are based on one exam on a forced curve. Some people who did awesome in undergrad do poorly in law school and vice versa. It's better to assume going in that you'll have median grades.

I understand this and I know correlation=/=causation, but statistically, I will probably end up at the top of my class. I know this for a variety of reasons/factors but mainly because I'd be living at home so mom will be taking care of me while I study all day and night.

That's really not how it works.

[PrezRand]

Wait it out. UH will offer you the same next year. If you can get a 170, that can improve your prospects for a better school and scholarships

[robertrulez]

I like the idea of being a big fish in a pool of small fish, I'm sure I'll be able to get into the top 10 easily.

This is not a certainty. At most schools, grades in a class are based on one exam on a forced curve. Some people who did awesome in undergrad do poorly in law school and vice versa. It's better to assume going in that you'll have median grades.

I understand this and I know correlation=/=causation, but statistically, I will probably end up at the top of my class. I know this for a variety of reasons/factors but mainly because I'd be living at home so mom will be taking care of me while I study all day and night.

You literally sound retarded. You need to sit out a year because you are immature

You're a great help, bud.

I wouldn't have said it like he did but he's right, that comment reeks of immaturity. I don't even understand what it means, are you trying to say that you'll DEFINITELY finish in the top 10% of your class because your mom will do your laundry and cook for you?

I guess I should have clarified. I used the word "probably", because I know that if I can just focus on school, I think I can make it to the top of the class easily. Though I do understand it's no guarantee. I'd like big law in Houston but it isn't even the ends all goal which is why UH sounds quite appetizing. My parents own an accounting/tax business that caters to the Latino community and I could take over, grow it, and then do a mix of immigration law and tax law, plus accounting work.

[BasilHallward]

Your verbiage is insufferable. Throwing around words like "easily" makes it feasible to go to Tech or A&M, if it is a purported slam dunk to obtain highest rank. But, we all know that is suicide.

Seriously, a difference of 4 or 5 points is explainable by several insignificant variables. Knock down the expectations a few pegs. There will be plenty of gunners at UH.