What top law school love high lsat/low gpa splitters?
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:17 pm
My gpa will not quite hit 3.0 and have been testing the lsat from 170-175. not very good we. which schools will like my lsat the most?
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NU is out if OP has no (or no quality) WE.biggamejames wrote:I think Penn, GULC, NU.
They just make you sit on the waitlist until June. : Prayiner wrote:I'm pretty sure NU doesn't even look at your GPA if you've got a 173+ and WE...
NU's out then. With your numbers, reaches would be something like UMich and Duke, targets would be something like Cornell, GULC, and UT, and your safeties would be something like WUSTL, UMTC, UIUC, and W&L.prospectiveprospect wrote:My gpa will not quite hit 3.0 and have been testing the lsat from 170-175. not very good we. which schools will like my lsat the most?
UMN outright dinged me this cycle...Peter0061 wrote:Don't leave out UMN... although I think for Low GPA splitters they do like WE.
+1, but my GPA is very lowrayiner wrote:UMN outright dinged me this cycle...Peter0061 wrote:Don't leave out UMN... although I think for Low GPA splitters they do like WE.
They seemed much less splitter-friendly all around this cycle.Hook 'Em wrote:+1, but my GPA is very lowrayiner wrote:UMN outright dinged me this cycle...Peter0061 wrote:Don't leave out UMN... although I think for Low GPA splitters they do like WE.
<33333rayiner wrote:I'm pretty sure NU doesn't even look at your GPA if you've got a 173+ and WE...
rayiner wrote:They seemed much less splitter-friendly all around this cycle.Hook 'Em wrote:+1, but my GPA is very lowrayiner wrote:UMN outright dinged me this cycle...Peter0061 wrote:Don't leave out UMN... although I think for Low GPA splitters they do like WE.
SMU and U of Houston seem very splitter friendly. Seems like a 167 should get you in at either school.keg411 wrote:<33333rayiner wrote:I'm pretty sure NU doesn't even look at your GPA if you've got a 173+ and WE...
Based on their splitter love, I've fallen in love with NU, even though I was never thinking Chicago when I started this process.
As a likely splitter/weak splitter (unless I bomb the LSAT, in which case I'm a "not applying" non-splitter), I've pretty much resigned that I'm headed for the midwest since the most split-friendly schools seem to be there (except for W&L). However, are there any southern schools that like splitters? Or are they all low enough ranked that as long as you have a 167-168+ you're okay? (I mean like UF/FSU/UGA, etc; not Emory/Vandy). Their LSAC profiles seem to hate splitters, but from browsing LSN and the splitter threads they don't seem quite as hated on.
GMU, if NoVA counts as Southern.keg411 wrote:<33333rayiner wrote:I'm pretty sure NU doesn't even look at your GPA if you've got a 173+ and WE...
Based on their splitter love, I've fallen in love with NU, even though I was never thinking Chicago when I started this process.
As a likely splitter/weak splitter (unless I bomb the LSAT, in which case I'm a "not applying" non-splitter), I've pretty much resigned that I'm headed for the midwest since the most split-friendly schools seem to be there (except for W&L). However, are there any southern schools that like splitters? Or are they all low enough ranked that as long as you have a 167-168+ you're okay? (I mean like UF/FSU/UGA, etc; not Emory/Vandy). Their LSAC profiles seem to hate splitters, but from browsing LSN and the splitter threads they don't seem quite as hated on.
I think you have about a 50% chance of getting in the T14 if you can pull off an LSAT score of 173. I would send a lot of apps out. It's tough to predict where an extreme splitter might be able to get in.prospectiveprospect wrote:so if i understand everyone i have a decent chance at going to a t14 school? so i should probably blanket my applications across 6-14, and some other top 25 schools im interested in like uiuc
Do you think Duke is possible with that low of a gpa?! It's basically my dream school, but I had understood that they weren't really splitter friendly ...Helmholtz wrote:
NU's out then. With your numbers, reaches would be something like UMich and Duke, targets would be something like Cornell, GULC, and UT, and your safeties would be something like WUSTL, UMTC, UIUC, and W&L.
Frankly, anything below a 3.4 for Duke would be tough. I'm not even sure a 180/3.0 would get in. Schools like GULC, NU, and Cornell are much more forgiving of a low GPA.missvik218 wrote:Do you think Duke is possible with that low of a gpa?! It's basically my dream school, but I had understood that they weren't really splitter friendly ...Helmholtz wrote:
NU's out then. With your numbers, reaches would be something like UMich and Duke, targets would be something like Cornell, GULC, and UT, and your safeties would be something like WUSTL, UMTC, UIUC, and W&L.