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undergraduate GPA-how bad is bad?
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:38 pm
by SRR2012
this is a dumb question but I gotta know-my undergraduate GPA was a 3.4, which I hear is not great, but I went to really good school, will that help? My dream law program is UNC Chapel Hill, do I basically need to get a 176 on the test to pull that off? I guess what I'm asking is if a 3.4 is really as terrible as I think it is?
thanks!
Re: undergraduate GPA-how bad is bad?
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:46 pm
by WanderingPondering
You need a 163-164 with your GPA.
Aim higher. Your GPA isn't that bad. School won't help, unless its Princeton, MIT, Stanford, etc.
Re: undergraduate GPA-how bad is bad?
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:54 pm
by Merylian
Are you a resident of North Carolina? If not, you might want to shoot a little higher than 163-164 to really feel secure. UNC is one of my top choices too, and I've been led to believe that admissions are kind of a crapshoot for out of state people.
Good luck!
Re: undergraduate GPA-how bad is bad?
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 9:42 pm
by LawyerBrah
SRR2012 wrote: My dream law program is UNC Chapel Hill, do I basically need to get a 176 on the test to pull that off?
nah
you need about a 180 for UNC Chapel Hill
Re: undergraduate GPA-how bad is bad?
Posted: Fri Jan 25, 2013 12:10 pm
by SRR2012
Thank you!
Re: undergraduate GPA-how bad is bad?
Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2013 10:28 am
by Poo-T
I go to UNC and some of my undergrad courses are at the law school. I can confirm that anything below 180 is rejected, spit on, and laughed at. Good luck OP. Also, all out of state applications are piled together, ceremoniously lit on fire and peed on.
Btw my top choice for law school is Duke