BU ($$$) vs Retake
Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2016 5:34 pm
Post from a friend:
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Hi everyone! So as of right now, the only school that I am seriously considering is Boston University, especially as I have received $35k/year. I expect to have some financial assistance from my parents and am currently debt free as a student (lucky, I know). I graduated from undergrad a year early and took last year to better understand my goals and that really helped pushed me to apply for law school. I took the LSAT once and really hated the experience. My GPA is currently a 3.7, and my LSAT score is fairly low (<160, 1 take). I am a URM and think that has really helped my chances at a few places. Right now, I am WL at Georgetown and Northwestern. I have not heard back from Cornell but received an invitation to interview, so I am assuming either WL/reject.
The desire is to attend law school in the fall (and not take another year off). I also hope to study IP law and am really interested in the new IP/entrepreneurship and cyberlaw clinics at BU. I 100% know that I could’ve done better on the LSAT, but I am not sure that it would have been enough to say that I would be a “shoe-in” at one of the other schools. I’d like to end up in NYC/Boston/DC eventually working as an in-house counsel (although this is not set in stone) and would prefer not to have to go into Biglaw, but am not totally against it. So really this post is more of a request for general thoughts on BU, the payoff for retaking and reapplying (my fear is that I will not be able to score high enough to get substantial scholarship money from the schools I want – Cornell/Georgetown/NYU). Thanks!
PLEASE DON'T QUOTE
Hi everyone! So as of right now, the only school that I am seriously considering is Boston University, especially as I have received $35k/year. I expect to have some financial assistance from my parents and am currently debt free as a student (lucky, I know). I graduated from undergrad a year early and took last year to better understand my goals and that really helped pushed me to apply for law school. I took the LSAT once and really hated the experience. My GPA is currently a 3.7, and my LSAT score is fairly low (<160, 1 take). I am a URM and think that has really helped my chances at a few places. Right now, I am WL at Georgetown and Northwestern. I have not heard back from Cornell but received an invitation to interview, so I am assuming either WL/reject.
The desire is to attend law school in the fall (and not take another year off). I also hope to study IP law and am really interested in the new IP/entrepreneurship and cyberlaw clinics at BU. I 100% know that I could’ve done better on the LSAT, but I am not sure that it would have been enough to say that I would be a “shoe-in” at one of the other schools. I’d like to end up in NYC/Boston/DC eventually working as an in-house counsel (although this is not set in stone) and would prefer not to have to go into Biglaw, but am not totally against it. So really this post is more of a request for general thoughts on BU, the payoff for retaking and reapplying (my fear is that I will not be able to score high enough to get substantial scholarship money from the schools I want – Cornell/Georgetown/NYU). Thanks!