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Realistic Expectations for Admission

Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 7:45 pm
by genesweeney
53 year old PHD with significant professional experience, a 3.66 GPA in Graduate School, 2.95 in Undergraduate School...taking LSAT next week...realistically what do I need to minimally score to get into a school like Indiana University - Bloomington or Notre Dame?

Re: Realistic Expectations for Admission

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 6:37 pm
by californiauser
Are you a URM?

Re: Realistic Expectations for Admission

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 12:50 am
by Pumpkin_Pie
Why do you want to go to law school?

Re: Realistic Expectations for Admission

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 1:15 am
by 20130312
Lawschoolnumbers.com is all that matters. UGPA and LSAT.

Re: Realistic Expectations for Admission

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 1:43 am
by ScottRiqui
So you don't think that several decades of work experience and multiple advanced degrees could allow someone to outperform their numbers? For someone like the OP, I don't know that LSN is the best indicator, because the pool of applicants with similar backgrounds is so small (I know, I know - "special snowflake syndrome").

Also, I think a significant number of seriously non-traditional applicants might self-select away from the top schools in favor of lower-ranked regional schools if they're already established in an area (own a home, working spouse, kids in high school, etcetera), so it would be hard to tell if the admissions folks thought more highly of them compared to K-JD types with similar numbers. In other words, they can't tell if they would have outperformed their numbers because they selected a school with lower medians for other reasons.

Re: Realistic Expectations for Admission

Posted: Thu Nov 29, 2012 1:32 pm
by Justin Genious
Shoot for a 170 and apply to NW.

Re: Realistic Expectations for Admission

Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2012 4:35 pm
by Nova
Assuming you arent a URM,

median.

Re: Realistic Expectations for Admission

Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 12:22 pm
by CanadianWolf
Difficult to predict since few with your extensive professional & educational background apply to law school.

Re: Realistic Expectations for Admission

Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2012 1:51 am
by mohuohu
genesweeney wrote:53 year old PHD with significant professional experience, a 3.66 GPA in Graduate School, 2.95 in Undergraduate School...taking LSAT next week...realistically what do I need to minimally score to get into a school like Indiana University - Bloomington or Notre Dame?

As an IUB student, I would guess that they'd be happy to take you on even if you were below our median. The school likes to have older folk around, because they add a lot to the experience and we don't have too many of them.
I don't think your undergrad GPA would be relevant at all.

Disclaimer: I have no source or justification for my thoughts on this matter beyond informal conversations with admissions folks.