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[srchoi49]

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[lymenheimer]

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[timbs4339]

Hi all!

First and foremost, I want to say thank you for taking your time to give away some great advices. With that, I will get right into my question.

After getting into multiple schools, I narrowed down the list to top three choices: LMU, Pepperdine and Davis.
Here are the reasons:
- I chose LMU and Pepperdine because of scholarship money. They both offered me around 100k with the GPA contingency, 75th and 50th percentile respectively.
- I chose Davis because that is the highest school I've gotten into so far.
- I want to stay in the southern part of California. All of my families live in Orange County area.
- Lastly, I am really leaning toward Pepperdine mainly b/c of their Christian mission and remote location. But there are some concerns I have about this school.
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* Additional information that might help you giving me advices is (1) I have taken LSAT 3 times and my GPA is not that great, and (2) I am not willing to defer and do it again. But I'm super motivated !!

My questions are these:
(1) Why is it that, considering its ranking on USNews and Startclass, Pepperdine has worse numbers on employment stats? Is it really that bad when LST Score Reports is showing you 46.5% on employment score?

(2) If I choose to go to LMU, would it be possible to bring down the contingency to 50th percentile like Pepperdine? Is it possible to get rid of it altogether? How should I go about that?

(3) Any pros and cons that you would like to tell me for each school? Perhaps, are there things that you just don't know unless you are or were affiliated with law school?

Thanks again! I much appreciate your candor and altruism.

Let us begin with the most basic questions:

1) Do you want to be a lawyer?
2) What kind of lawyer to you want to be?