Does attending Undergrad at a school boost chances? Forum

goucher · Post by **goucher** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 4:07 pm

does it have any bearing? I have a low LSAT 150 and a 3.54 GPA but am in love with my current school.

superflush · Post by **superflush** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 4:21 pm

goucher wrote:does it have any bearing? I have a low LSAT 150 and a 3.54 GPA but am in love with my current school.

What school?

goucher · Post by **goucher** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 4:22 pm

I really really want to stay at Syracuse and am just hoping to that my LSAT is not going to be the end all be all. Its a great school.

I was just rejected from Buffalo

BaiAilian2013 · Post by **BaiAilian2013** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 4:23 pm

At some schools, like W&M, word is that it actually hurts your chances a little.

superflush · Post by **superflush** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 4:24 pm

In order to determine if it has bearing, we need to know what school ... or if it is a state school ... and are you in-state.

goucher · Post by **goucher** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 4:25 pm

and yea I am in state.

superflush · Post by **superflush** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 4:27 pm

goucher wrote:I really really want to stay at Syracuse and am just hoping to that my LSAT is not going to be the end all be all. Its a great school.

Maybe a tad, but I don't think it'd make that much of a difference.

You should probably retake the LSAT.

goucher · Post by **goucher** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 4:29 pm

yeah thats what I will probably end up doing. I'm just a little down because I would have retaken in December if I was aware of how poor my LSAT really was.

superflush · Post by **superflush** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 4:45 pm

goucher wrote:yeah thats what I will probably end up doing. I'm just a little down because I would have retaken in December if I was aware of how poor my LSAT really was.

but you got your score back a while ago, right?

goucher · Post by **goucher** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 4:59 pm

yeah I was just under the impression that applying early would help boost my admission chances but that seems to have been erroneous on my part.

Burger in a can · Post by **Burger in a can** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:02 pm

crackberry · Post by **crackberry** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:12 pm

goucher wrote:I really really want to stay at Syracuse and am just hoping to that my LSAT is not going to be the end all be all. Its a great school.

I was just rejected from Buffalo

I always get wary when I see something like this. You are aware that law school - unlike college - is not "fun" right? I hope the reasons you are "in love" with Syracuse have to do with the location/administration/etc. and not your UG friends or the social scene.

To preempt criticism, it is very likely that I will be going to law school at my UG, but I'm a couple years out of school and so have a different perspective on things.

ashleigh · Post by **ashleigh** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:14 pm

BaiAilian2013 wrote:At some schools, like W&M, word is that it actually hurts your chances a little.

+1, this is what I've also heard about my u-grad.

Oban · Post by **Oban** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:16 pm

BaiAilian2013 wrote:At some schools, like W&M, word is that it actually hurts your chances a little.

+ 1. Some schools hate their UG students, such as Chicago.

avacado111 · Post by **avacado111** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:20 pm

UVA loves their undergrad schools, it's a def plus. A friend goes there, apparently, people who grad from their undergrad school are called "double hoos?" I think...

goucher · Post by **goucher** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:21 pm

It has more to do with my devotion to the surrounding community and I am very attracted to the program itself.

crackberry · Post by **crackberry** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 5:22 pm

goucher wrote:It has more to do with my devotion to the surrounding community and I am very attracted to the program itself.

Ok, then disregard my warning.

superflush · Post by **superflush** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:01 pm

avacado111 wrote:UVA loves their undergrad schools, it's a def plus. A friend goes there, apparently, people who grad from their undergrad school are called "double hoos?" I think...

ah, it appears to be so. This girl is a Double Hoo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTGKyXieuts

dakatz · Post by **dakatz** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:04 pm

I talked to a former adcom at a T20 school and he said that, while no school will say that it helps, it does and they give special consideration to those who attended undergrad there. But he stressed that it depends on the school.

rejectmaster · Post by **rejectmaster** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:41 pm

georgetown law loves its undergrads also.. i think all the jesuit schools are that way

jay115 · Post by **jay115** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 6:49 pm

I'm sure that someone going to Yale with my numbers could get into better law schools than if he/she came from my shitty UG. That, and my UG has disgusting GPA inflation, (like a 3.3 school average) so I'm sure law schools view my 3.6 as really a 2.6.

That being said, I don't think Syracuse will hurt you as much as if you went to, say, Western South Carolina Technical College (if one actually exists, I mean no offense).

crackberry · Post by **crackberry** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 7:31 pm

jay115 wrote:I'm sure that someone going to Yale with my numbers could get into better law schools than if he/she came from my shitty UG. That, and my UG has disgusting GPA inflation, (like a 3.3 school average) so I'm sure law schools view my 3.6 as really a 2.6.

3.3 is nothing. I went to Stanford; our average GPA is like 3.5 or something, and that includes engineering majors. Among humanities kids, I think it's over 3.6. As they say, the hard part is getting in...

Also, I'd be shocked if grad schools (incl. law obviously) don't give preferential treatment to their UGs. If you go to one school for both UG and grad, aren't you that much more likely to give them $$$ down the road?

beach_terror · Post by **beach_terror** » Mon Dec 28, 2009 9:58 pm

Paying sticker at Syracuse is redunkulous. Retake, score high 150's, and get some money. 42k in tuition for a school that fell out of the USNWR 100 in the last 3 years is not a good idea. That said, If I get 3/4 scholly there, I'll probably be going.

MissLucky · Post by **MissLucky** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 4:59 pm

rejectmaster wrote:georgetown law loves its undergrads also.. i think all the jesuit schools are that way

what makes you say that about gtown? i remember the dean explicitly stating gtown undergrads don't get looked upon any more favorably than students from other good schools...

GobiasIndustries · Post by **GobiasIndustries** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 5:04 pm

rejectmaster wrote:georgetown law loves its undergrads also.. i think all the jesuit schools are that way

I heard BC doesn't really care for its UGs.

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