Question About Graduate School Impact on Admissions
Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2015 4:01 pm
Hello,
I am a senior attaining my undergraduate degree and I currently have a 4.0 GPA. I am planning on taking a gap year upon graduating to completely master the LSAT, and I've been contemplating about how to make productive use of this time before law school. One option I was considering was attaining a master's degree, if I can find a program that is only a year long and one that is willing to offer me a lot of scholarship money.
My motivation for doing so is that, firstly, it would keep me in the "school mode" which I am afraid of falling out of over the course of the gap year. A year without school is a long time, and this would not only keep me sharp but it would allow me to attain another degree in the process. Also, while a graduate degree may not give my law school application a boost, it could give my employment chances a boost.
However, one way in which I'm afraid a graduate degree could impact my law school application is if my graduate degree GPA is not as impressive as my undergraduate degree GPA. If I were to get, say, a 3.7 graduate GPA, would this render my undergraduate GPA not as impressive or as effective in the admission process as it would have been otherwise? Or is it still ultimately all down to you undergraduate GPA and your LSAT score?
I am a senior attaining my undergraduate degree and I currently have a 4.0 GPA. I am planning on taking a gap year upon graduating to completely master the LSAT, and I've been contemplating about how to make productive use of this time before law school. One option I was considering was attaining a master's degree, if I can find a program that is only a year long and one that is willing to offer me a lot of scholarship money.
My motivation for doing so is that, firstly, it would keep me in the "school mode" which I am afraid of falling out of over the course of the gap year. A year without school is a long time, and this would not only keep me sharp but it would allow me to attain another degree in the process. Also, while a graduate degree may not give my law school application a boost, it could give my employment chances a boost.
However, one way in which I'm afraid a graduate degree could impact my law school application is if my graduate degree GPA is not as impressive as my undergraduate degree GPA. If I were to get, say, a 3.7 graduate GPA, would this render my undergraduate GPA not as impressive or as effective in the admission process as it would have been otherwise? Or is it still ultimately all down to you undergraduate GPA and your LSAT score?