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What were your GPA/LSAT? Did you get into one of your top choices? What do you think made the difference in your cycle? If you could re-do this cycle over (still same GPA/LSAT) what would you do different?

Splitters, like the much fabled unicorn, don't exist, primarily because they may only be handled by maidens, who also don't exist in this day and age.

The LSAT will determine whether I'm a splitter or a shitter.

Dr. Strangelove wrote:The LSAT will determine whether I'm a splitter or a shitter.

Same here. Although people keep telling me my 3.44 puts me in a better position for Top14 than I think.

motiontodismiss wrote:

Dr. Strangelove wrote:The LSAT will determine whether I'm a splitter or a shitter.

Same here. Although people keep telling me my 3.44 puts me in a better position for Top14 than I think.

HYS CC and Boalt are out. The rest you hav ea fighting shot at.

Yep. Here's one.

2.8/176

Nothing. EDing at NU is win for sub 3.0, super 170 applicants

Splitters are all here:

http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 0&t=111344

and hai DF, I am shocked you have most of the posts itt

I split 175, 2.98. I got into some good t15 - 30 schools with scholarship money. I've been waitlisted from 7 schools, including a few T14s. I am still waiting to hear fom NYU and Cornell. (seriously, wtf? I applied 6 months ago).

I can't say I am thrilled with my cycle but I am satisfied. As of right now I'll be going to UCLA with tuition covered by GI Bill/Yellow Ribbon scholarships. Who knows though, if the waitlists pan out I could be at another school.

The thing that made the difference in my cycle was retaking the LSAT to go from 170 -> 175. The only thing I would have done differently is I would have applied the first day that applications were available. For the life of me, I don't know what I waited until November for.

LOL every time I see this thread title I want to come over here and say, "no, there are no splitters anywhere."

MURPH wrote:I split 175, 2.98. I got into some good t15 - 30 schools with scholarship money. I've been waitlisted from 7 schools, including a few T14s. I am still waiting to hear fom NYU and Cornell. (seriously, wtf? I applied 6 months ago).

I can't say I am thrilled with my cycle but I am satisfied. As of right now I'll be going to UCLA with tuition covered by GI Bill/Yellow Ribbon scholarships. Who knows though, if the waitlists pan out I could be at another school.

The thing that made the difference in my cycle was retaking the LSAT to go from 170 -> 175. The only thing I would have done differently is I would have applied the first day that applications were available. For the life of me, I don't know what I waited until November for.

Wow UCLA with that GPA is almost a miracle. How did you do it?

3.4/170
In at UVA

I pretty much credit my acceptance to me going ED... saved my ass.

memaha wrote:3.4/170
In at UVA

I pretty much credit my acceptance to me going ED... saved my ass.

2.8/176 at Northwestern. ED saved my ass too.

There's about to be one less splitter "out there". I may have been dinged at Cornell, but I don't have to be admitted to go jump into a gorge.

No, "splitter" is a myth created by the government to keep you out of NU.

With a 3.44 you'll be fine with the right LSAT. So far I've gotten into Penn and Georgetown with a 3.43/171. I think you should definitely make all other experience you have stand out so they look past the GPA a little.

motiontodismiss wrote:

Dr. Strangelove wrote:The LSAT will determine whether I'm a splitter or a shitter.

Same here. Although people keep telling me my 3.44 puts me in a better position for Top14 than I think.

3.44 is fine for CCN with a high enough LSAT and good overall application.

blue5385 wrote:
3.44 is fine for CCN with a high enough LSAT and good overall application.

You really think a 3.44 is okay? I am somewhere in that same boat after this semester. My grades will have dropped significantly (I have what they think is cancer) and my grades will have gone down from where they were. I am consciously aware a good LSAT is needed with a 3.4 something; any tried and true methods you recommend?

Desert Fox wrote:

memaha wrote:3.4/170
In at UVA

I pretty much credit my acceptance to me going ED... saved my ass.

2.8/176 at Northwestern. ED saved my ass too.

3.09/174 UVA. ED pulled me through.

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That's all comforting. I thought I was doomed. I think my LSAC GPA will be a tick higher because I have some precollege (but college level) classes that I'm planning to submit to LSAC that I got A's on, so more like 3.46 or so, but I presume that wouldn't make any difference anyway.

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Honestly, a 3.44 with a high-enough LSAT has a chance at any T14 except Harvard/Yale/Stanford/Berkeley.. the higher the LSAT.. the better the chances.
It sounds like applying early helps a lot..
It's just that your chances are probably less than 50% at places like Columbia/Chicago/Duke..which seem to have somewhat strict GPA cutoffs.

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