Planned Transfer Forum

[cavalier1138]

There's a huge gap between "room for improvement", which is theoretically just <180 (insert Asian dad meme: "179 on LSAT? Disappoint[ed]"), and not getting a "decent" score, which was alleged.

Context for my LSAT retaking consideration: I did not receive a good scholarship to a t14 school. "Good" would be defined as anywhere around 1/3 of the tuition and fees or above. In theory, my LSAT score improving could have changed that. But that assumes I would actually improve, and it would have also required waiting a year--where the opportunity cost from lost income as an attorney outweighed the difference in any scholarship increase.

But let's jump back in time to the time before you knew (well, before anyone actually could have known) that you would excel in law school. What was your probable salary outcome if you were a median student at your original school? And what's the opportunity cost difference between that and your probable outcome now?

[A. Nony Mouse]

"Decent" around here pretty much means "getting a good scholarship to a T14" though!

As for the part about opportunity cost - that is completely determined by individual circumstances, and depends on what the applicant is currently doing and what kind of law they intend to do. (It also depends on presuming you will get a job doing that kind of law and keeping it long enough to pay off the debt after the fact, rather than avoiding it before hand. Again, if that's your choice, that's cool; a lot of people here would rather not risk that.)