Where would Zack Morris have gone to law school?
Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 6:55 pm
Okay, I am bored, so here is my prediction/explanation for where Zack Morris would have gone to law school had he decided to do so.
Vital facts:
UG Institution: Cal U. Seems to be roughly equivalent to Cal-Berkeley, though this is certainly up for debate. Some may argue that Zack would have been unable to get in at Berkeley given his low high school GPA. So, this might just be a different Cal school.
LSAT: Well, he got a 1502 on the SAT with little to no preparation. Assuming he got serious and studied a bit for the LSAT, I trust he could have performed exceptionally. I am tentatively putting him at a 172.
UG GPA: This is a tough one. It seems that Zack took college more seriously than he did high school. We know he got an 'A' in his Ethics class (taught by Benson), because he wouldn't cheat on the exam. I also gotta assume he leveraged his knowledge of Professor Laskey's affair with Kelly ( a student) to a guaranteed A in any anthropology course Zack took with him. So, I am going to throw an estimate of 3.60 out there. Even though Zack took UG more seriously than HS, he still kept quite a social life. I mean he was willing to take an impromptu ski trip one weekend in the hopes of gaining carnal knowledge of Leslie.
Extracurriculars: It seems that most of Zack's EC's came from high school, and he had minimal participation in UG. This is gonna hurt his application. He is not going to be able to list all of his HS involvement. A partial list would have included basketball team, baseball team, cross country team, track team, swimming team, school plays, school ballet, school radio, carnival planner, school dance coordinator, Junior ROTC, yearbook, temporary president of student council, glee club, manager of school store, manager of Miss Bayside (Screech), manager of Hot Sundae, quiz bowl participant, Miss Liberty Pageant judge, and appeared in an anti-drug commercial for NBC.
Work experience: Malibu Sands Beach Club. Also, countless start-up businesses, including selling zit cream, spaghetti sauce, swimsuit calendars, friendship bracelets, and advice through Teen Line. Furthermore, Zack won a few Grammies as the lead singer of Zack Attack (though this may have been a dream).
URM status: Zack is part Native American.
Personal Statement fodder: delivered his principal's wife's baby in a broken elevator, comes from a broken home, helped end a teacher's strike, participates in a sit-down protest in support of Latin American studies at Cal U, helped stopped Bayside from turning into a site for oil drilling.
LOR's: I'm thinking he gets one from Benson and one from Laskey.
Addenda: Zack would seemingly need many addenda to cover all of his residence hall violations during UG. For example, he hosted a rave, he ran a poker game, and he hid a monkey in his room. He also posed as a professor to date the dean's daughter. Because of this, I am going to rule out any school that requires a dean's certification (goodbye Yale and Stanford).
Geographic concerns: Would probably want to stay on the west coast, as he is married and both he and his wife have the bulk of their families in California.
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Cliff Notes version:
GPA: 3.60
LSAT: 172
URM: Yes, Native American
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With all this in mind, I am putting Zack in at Cal-Berkeley with a 1/2 scholarship. The GPA is a bit low, BUT his URM status and work experience/EC's more than make up for that.
Any thoughts?
Vital facts:
UG Institution: Cal U. Seems to be roughly equivalent to Cal-Berkeley, though this is certainly up for debate. Some may argue that Zack would have been unable to get in at Berkeley given his low high school GPA. So, this might just be a different Cal school.
LSAT: Well, he got a 1502 on the SAT with little to no preparation. Assuming he got serious and studied a bit for the LSAT, I trust he could have performed exceptionally. I am tentatively putting him at a 172.
UG GPA: This is a tough one. It seems that Zack took college more seriously than he did high school. We know he got an 'A' in his Ethics class (taught by Benson), because he wouldn't cheat on the exam. I also gotta assume he leveraged his knowledge of Professor Laskey's affair with Kelly ( a student) to a guaranteed A in any anthropology course Zack took with him. So, I am going to throw an estimate of 3.60 out there. Even though Zack took UG more seriously than HS, he still kept quite a social life. I mean he was willing to take an impromptu ski trip one weekend in the hopes of gaining carnal knowledge of Leslie.
Extracurriculars: It seems that most of Zack's EC's came from high school, and he had minimal participation in UG. This is gonna hurt his application. He is not going to be able to list all of his HS involvement. A partial list would have included basketball team, baseball team, cross country team, track team, swimming team, school plays, school ballet, school radio, carnival planner, school dance coordinator, Junior ROTC, yearbook, temporary president of student council, glee club, manager of school store, manager of Miss Bayside (Screech), manager of Hot Sundae, quiz bowl participant, Miss Liberty Pageant judge, and appeared in an anti-drug commercial for NBC.
Work experience: Malibu Sands Beach Club. Also, countless start-up businesses, including selling zit cream, spaghetti sauce, swimsuit calendars, friendship bracelets, and advice through Teen Line. Furthermore, Zack won a few Grammies as the lead singer of Zack Attack (though this may have been a dream).
URM status: Zack is part Native American.
Personal Statement fodder: delivered his principal's wife's baby in a broken elevator, comes from a broken home, helped end a teacher's strike, participates in a sit-down protest in support of Latin American studies at Cal U, helped stopped Bayside from turning into a site for oil drilling.
LOR's: I'm thinking he gets one from Benson and one from Laskey.
Addenda: Zack would seemingly need many addenda to cover all of his residence hall violations during UG. For example, he hosted a rave, he ran a poker game, and he hid a monkey in his room. He also posed as a professor to date the dean's daughter. Because of this, I am going to rule out any school that requires a dean's certification (goodbye Yale and Stanford).
Geographic concerns: Would probably want to stay on the west coast, as he is married and both he and his wife have the bulk of their families in California.
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Cliff Notes version:
GPA: 3.60
LSAT: 172
URM: Yes, Native American
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With all this in mind, I am putting Zack in at Cal-Berkeley with a 1/2 scholarship. The GPA is a bit low, BUT his URM status and work experience/EC's more than make up for that.
Any thoughts?