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[MichiganHoosier]

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[Barack O'Drama]

I know that from reading the Admissions Q&As on TLS that military experience is seen a really great soft. It serves as "other evidence" that an applicant will succeed in their law school. So you can absolutely outperform your numbers, but as always, LSAT/GPA are the most important. While your GPA is not stellar, you can study and kill the LSAT and your softs, ie., military experience should be able to give you a bump. As with anything, the bump is impossible to quantify, but you will be looked on favorably having served. It shows you can work well under pressure, handle multiple responsibilities, and are mature enough to handle law school. All wonderful things. You may even want to use the subject as a topic for an awesome personal statement.

tl;dr Yes, absolutely it will help! But only so much, you still will have to kill the lsat. Aim to get into the 170s if you want a shot for T6.

[MichiganHoosier]

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[Barack O'Drama]

I know that from reading the Admissions Q&As on TLS that military experience is seen a really great soft. It serves as "other evidence" that an applicant will succeed in their law school. So you can absolutely outperform your numbers, but as always, LSAT/GPA are the most important. While your GPA is not stellar, you can study and kill the LSAT and your softs, ie., military experience should be able to give you a bump. As with anything, the bump is impossible to quantify, but you will be looked on favorably having served. It shows you can work well under pressure, handle multiple responsibilities, and are mature enough to handle law school. All wonderful things. You may even want to use the subject as a topic for an awesome personal statement.

tl;dr Yes, absolutely it will help! But only so much, you still will have to kill the lsat. Aim to get into the 170s if you want a shot for T6.

Thank you for the quick response! Really shooting for a 170. But we'll see.

No problem man! You can absolutely kill the LSAT. I'm less than a month in and already increased 3 points from my diagnostic. Obviously that is anecdotal and probably just a steep learning curve, but in any case, let it serve as motivation you can kill it! I recommend going through the LSAT Trainer first, then getting the Manhattan LSAT set or Powerscore bibles (I'm using both) and every old LSAT you can get your hands on. Give yourself 4 months and just grind away. A 15 point increase can be hard, but you'd be amazed what you can accomplish when you're focused and really want it. And as an officer like yourself knows I'm sure, discipline is sine quo non with important tasks!

Let me know if I can help at all

[MichiganHoosier]

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[Barack O'Drama]

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