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Needed score for DC area schools

Post by nicolasdubois » Mon Oct 26, 2015 11:09 am

Hello,
I am currently a high school French Teacher with a master's degree in Corporate Communication and had a 3.65 GPA in undergrad. I speak 4 languages (French, Spanish, Russian, English) but I know most of this will only have so much input on my chances to get in. BTW I am 25 and have been teaching in order to pay for my education and the next step is law school. The Master's came as a scholarship so I did it part time for a couple of years to get the pay grade increase.

Anyways, I am trying to get into Georgetown and am taking the LSATs in February. I understand it is late in the cycle but I will have lots of vacation time/winter break/snow days to study so I'm setting myself up for more time to do well.

Given the above details, what kind of score do you think I need to get in order to get into Georgetown or George Mason? I'll be taking a practice test on Saturday so i'll get an idea of where I sit now.

Thanks and any advice on materials would be great!

-Nico

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Re: Needed score for DC area schools

Post by Br3v » Mon Oct 26, 2015 11:22 am

nicolasdubois wrote:Hello,
I am currently a high school French Teacher with a master's degree in Corporate Communication and had a 3.65 GPA in undergrad. I speak 4 languages (French, Spanish, Russian, English) but I know most of this will only have so much input on my chances to get in. BTW I am 25 and have been teaching in order to pay for my education and the next step is law school. The Master's came as a scholarship so I did it part time for a couple of years to get the pay grade increase.

Anyways, I am trying to get into Georgetown and am taking the LSATs in February. I understand it is late in the cycle but I will have lots of vacation time/winter break/snow days to study so I'm setting myself up for more time to do well.

Given the above details, what kind of score do you think I need to get in order to get into Georgetown or George Mason? I'll be taking a practice test on Saturday so i'll get an idea of where I sit now.

Thanks and any advice on materials would be great!

-Nico
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Re: Needed score for DC area schools

Post by TLSModBot » Mon Oct 26, 2015 11:30 am

Basically that ^

Some addenda:

1. If you have to be in DC, go GULC or not at all if you want Biglaw. Hiring prospects out of GULC are scary enough (at or around 50%), anywhere else in DC (aside from UVA which is I guess technically DC area?) is going to be nightmarish.

2. There's "getting in" and then there's "getting in with scholarship money." You want the latter - GULC ain't worth it at full price (almost no school is).

3. Still apply to other comparable schools so you can get scholarship offers to use for negotiation purposes.

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Re: Needed score for DC area schools

Post by Br3v » Mon Oct 26, 2015 6:01 pm

Capitol_Idea wrote:Basically that ^

Some addenda:

1. If you have to be in DC, go GULC or not at all if you want Biglaw. Hiring prospects out of GULC are scary enough (at or around 50%), anywhere else in DC (aside from UVA which is I guess technically DC area?) is going to be nightmarish.

2. There's "getting in" and then there's "getting in with scholarship money." You want the latter - GULC ain't worth it at full price (almost no school is).

3. Still apply to other comparable schools so you can get scholarship offers to use for negotiation purposes.
I don't know the exact data but my gut tells me if you want to end up in DC then UVA > GULC

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Re: Needed score for DC area schools

Post by TLSModBot » Mon Oct 26, 2015 6:52 pm

Oh jesus UVA is WAY better than GULC. I just didn't know whether or not OP was counting UVA as 'DC area" given that it's like 2 hours away. Shit, UPenn is a 'DC Area' school by that definition. :P

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