Top Law Schools

Basically, I have received all A's and one A- except for one semester. My sophomore fall, I received an A, B+, and C+. Essentially, it was a bad combination of a lack of focus/dedication and the C+ class being in a subject I am weak in. Will this be a big red flag as it deviates from every other semester? What will it be viewed as?

Ildeuce wrote:Basically, I have received all A's and one A- except for one semester. My sophomore fall, I received an A, B+, and C+. Essentially, it was a bad combination of a lack of focus/dedication and the C+ class being in a subject I am weak in. Will this be a big red flag as it deviates from every other semester? What will it be viewed as?

Was the C+ in your only legal class? If no, no one cares. If yes, no one cares still.

Unitas wrote:

Ildeuce wrote:Basically, I have received all A's and one A- except for one semester. My sophomore fall, I received an A, B+, and C+. Essentially, it was a bad combination of a lack of focus/dedication and the C+ class being in a subject I am weak in. Will this be a big red flag as it deviates from every other semester? What will it be viewed as?

Was the C+ in your only legal class? If no, no one cares. If yes, no one cares still.

TITCR.

There were two professors who taught law classes at my university, one didn't have a JD but thought of himself as Dean of Harvard Law, the other had a JD from a tier 3 school and couldn't "cut it" (his words) in law, so he went back to school and got a PhD. He was the pre-law advisor for the school and made it his mission to dissuade all students from a career in law, including grading all legal classes on a C curve.

I dropped one class with the former and got a B and a C in two classes with the latter. I can safely say that it had no negative influence on my applications other than the hit to my GPA.

The hit to your GPA will be the only thing that really matters. No one's going to be worried by a bad semester, everyone has one.

It's good that it happened your sophomore fall and not your junior fall--I really think Adcomms (and hopefully the firms who ask for undergrad transcripts) notice when your GPA is trending upwards.

I don't think adcomms give a damn about trends.

Whatever your overall GPA is, that's what they'll view, for the most part.

It won't be. No one cares about trends.

Getting one C+ isn't a trend.

My 7 or 8 of them was a trend.

prosp23 wrote:I don't think adcomms give a damn about trends.

180.