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Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:27 pm
by MIAOKLAUSCTENN
That's my goal and dream.
I'm at a state school for my first four years. What GPA and LSAT would consider me a lock?
Re: Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:35 pm
by anthropologieaddict
MIAOKLAUSCTENN wrote:That's my goal and dream.
I'm at a state school for my first four years. What GPA and LSAT would consider me a lock?
None. They're are so many qualified people just in numbers alone. You have to have mid 170's+, high GPA, great softs etc. (assuming you are not a URM) and even then you won't be a "lock."
Re: Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:39 pm
by Notor
4.33/180
Re: Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:41 pm
by anthropologieaddict
Re: Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:41 pm
by MIAOKLAUSCTENN
Hypothetical:
4.0
175
Tons of ECs
How would that stack up?
Re: Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:41 pm
by RPK34
http://harvard.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats
If you search within the applicants, those with above a 3.8 and a 175 get in with about an 80% pass rate (ball parking it).
Re: Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:46 pm
by anthropologieaddict
MIAOKLAUSCTENN wrote:Hypothetical:
4.0
175
Tons of ECs
How would that stack up?
Assuming you can write a stellar ps, are not obviously and openly Republican, and are not totally lacking the common sense to put together a descent app, sure why not? But first you have to put up those numbers.
Re: Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:49 pm
by MIAOKLAUSCTENN
anthropologieaddict wrote:MIAOKLAUSCTENN wrote:Hypothetical:
4.0
175
Tons of ECs
How would that stack up?
Assuming you can write a stellar ps, are not
obviously and openly Republican, and are not totally lacking the common sense to put together a descent app, sure why not? But first you have to put up those numbers.
Nope. I'm an open liberal/progressive/republican-hating independent who leans libertarian on most issues.
Re: Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:58 pm
by 094320
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Re: Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 11:23 pm
by anthropologieaddict
MIAOKLAUSCTENN wrote:anthropologieaddict wrote:MIAOKLAUSCTENN wrote:Hypothetical:
4.0
175
Tons of ECs
How would that stack up?
Assuming you can write a stellar ps, are not
obviously and openly Republican, and are not totally lacking the common sense to put together a descent app, sure why not? But first you have to put up those numbers.
Nope. I'm an open liberal/progressive/republican-hating independent who leans libertarian on most issues.
Lol even better.
Re: Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2010 11:24 pm
by anthropologieaddict
Re: Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 2:52 am
by im_blue
If you hit both medians (3.9+/173+), you should have excellent chances.
Re: Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 2:54 am
by mallard
You don't need "great softs." Just do a few things that excite you. Keep your grades up (ideally 3.9+, definitely 3.8+). Fuck a lot of women and take the LSAT your junior year.
Re: Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 2:55 am
by im_blue
mallard wrote:You don't need "great softs." Just do a few things that excite you. Keep your grades up (ideally 3.9+, definitely 3.8+). Fuck a lot of women and take the LSAT your junior year.
Sounds like a plan!
Re: Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 3:02 am
by Mickey Quicknumbers
anthropologieaddict wrote:
Assuming you can write a stellar ps, are not obviously and openly Republican, and are not totally lacking the common sense to put together a descent app, sure why not? But first you have to put up those numbers.

Re: Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 3:03 am
by 20121109
Wait....getting into Harvard is like, hard or something?
Re: Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 3:05 am
by JustDude
GAIAtheCHEERLEADER wrote:Wait....getting into Harvard is like, hard or something?
LOL You are funny. You sayng this knowing that it is a highly selective school. LOL this is irony (Read with huge indiam/mediterranian accent)
Re: Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 3:12 am
by 094320
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Re: Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 3:52 am
by 20160810
anthropologieaddict wrote:MIAOKLAUSCTENN wrote:Hypothetical:
4.0
175
Tons of ECs
How would that stack up?
Assuming you can write a stellar ps,
are not obviously and openly Republican, and are not totally lacking the common sense to put together a descent app, sure why not? But first you have to put up those numbers.
This actually doesn't have nearly the negative impact that people would think. I believe there was a TLS poster a couple cycles ago who got into Yale Law from Bob Jones University.
Re: Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 3:57 am
by mallard
SoftBoiledLife wrote:This actually doesn't have nearly the negative impact that people would think. I believe there was a TLS poster a couple cycles ago who got into Yale Law from Bob Jones University.
Wasn't there a thread where he kinda crashed and burned?
Re: Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 4:12 am
by 20160810
mallard wrote:SoftBoiledLife wrote:This actually doesn't have nearly the negative impact that people would think. I believe there was a TLS poster a couple cycles ago who got into Yale Law from Bob Jones University.
Wasn't there a thread where he kinda crashed and burned?
I recall him getting a bit testy after people called him out for making an argument which went something along the lines of
--> --> [Therefore it is smart to interpret the Bible literally].
More than likely it was more artfully done than that, but surely theology was the chink in his intellectual armor. In any event, to prevent a derail, the point is that your political affiliations won't keep you out of law school unless you're in the Klan or something.
Re: Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 4:19 am
by Mickey Quicknumbers
SoftBoiledLife wrote:mallard wrote:SoftBoiledLife wrote:This actually doesn't have nearly the negative impact that people would think. I believe there was a TLS poster a couple cycles ago who got into Yale Law from Bob Jones University.
Wasn't there a thread where he kinda crashed and burned?
I recall him getting a bit testy after people called him out for making an argument which went something along the lines of
--> --> [Therefore it is smart to interpret the Bible literally].
More than likely it was more artfully done than that, but surely theology was the chink in his intellectual armor. In any event, to prevent a derail, the point is that your political affiliations won't keep you out of law school unless you're in the Klan or something.
What if a smart guy interprets the Klan manifesto literally?
Re: Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 9:41 am
by anthropologieaddict
delBarco wrote:anthropologieaddict wrote:
Assuming you can write a stellar ps, are not obviously and openly Republican, and are not totally lacking the common sense to put together a descent app, sure why not? But first you have to put up those numbers.

It was a
joke obviously
Re: Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:42 am
by thecilent
Bothers me so much how they say "LSATs" like it's plural. Even the pre-law advisor (I think that's what she is) says it as plural.
Edit: And then she goes from a 143 to a 179

Gahhhh!
Re: Getting Into Harvard
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 3:19 pm
by 094320
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