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For tier 3 and 4 schools, will a significantly higher-than-75% LSAT lead to scholarship money, despite a poor GPA?
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 4:52 pm
by Hennessy
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Re: For tier 3 and 4 schools, will a significantly higher-than-75% LSAT lead to scholarship money, despite a poor GPA?
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 5:01 pm
by raven1231
You're scoring 170-174 on the practice tests? If so there is no reason to go to a tier 4 even with a bad GPA.
Re: For tier 3 and 4 schools, will a significantly higher-than-75% LSAT lead to scholarship money, despite a poor GPA?
Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 5:07 pm
by emkay625
You say your GPA is low. How low? If you are dead set on staying in NOLA, you could be looking at substantial $ from Tulane with that score.
Re: For tier 3 and 4 schools, will a significantly higher-than-75% LSAT lead to scholarship money, despite a poor GPA?
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 9:21 pm
by Doubting Law
Curious on your GPA and LSAT score. I'm from Louisiana but currently in undergrad at George Mason, and will be applying to Loyola next fall.
Re: For tier 3 and 4 schools, will a significantly higher-than-75% LSAT lead to scholarship money, despite a poor GPA?
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 4:47 am
by Chris4943
It did for me.
Take the actual LSAT though before you start counting your money. I feel like there are gigabytes of threads on here of the sort 'I was getting 175's on all my practice tests and then crapped the bed on LSAT day and got a 145'.
I must be the only one on Earth who did better on the LSAT then I was getting on practice tests.
Re: For tier 3 and 4 schools, will a significantly higher-than-75% LSAT lead to scholarship money, despite a poor GPA?
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 8:26 am
by Mikey
How low is your GPA? If you're scoring say 165+ then you should not be looking at tier 3 or 4 schools even with a low GPA, but really, how low is it?
Re: For tier 3 and 4 schools, will a significantly higher-than-75% LSAT lead to scholarship money, despite a poor GPA?
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 9:19 am
by Nagster5
Im in at several T14s and have full rides at several T20s with a 2.7, your GPA would have to be incredibly bad to be considering T4s even if you consider paying any tuition a nonstarter. Focus on the LSAT and revise upward when you get a score.
Re: For tier 3 and 4 schools, will a significantly higher-than-75% LSAT lead to scholarship money, despite a poor GPA?
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 11:19 am
by Chris4943
Nagster5 wrote:Im in at several T14s and have full rides at several T20s with a 2.7.
What's the other data point we're looking for?
What LSAT got you full rides at all the T20s?
Re: For tier 3 and 4 schools, will a significantly higher-than-75% LSAT lead to scholarship money, despite a poor GPA?
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 11:22 am
by Nagster5
Chris4943 wrote:Nagster5 wrote:Im in at several T14s and have full rides at several T20s with a 2.7.
What's the other data point we're looking for?
What LSAT got you full rides at all the T20s?
177. The point is anyone testing 15-20 points over the 75th of their target schools is targeting the wrong schools, even if they have 0 tuition as a prerequisite.
Re: For tier 3 and 4 schools, will a significantly higher-than-75% LSAT lead to scholarship money, despite a poor GPA?
Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2016 1:37 pm
by Chris4943
Nagster5 wrote:177.
Good work! Nice seeing real life turnaround success stories.
The point is anyone testing 15-20 points over the 75th of their target schools is targeting the wrong schools, even if they have 0 tuition as a prerequisite.
Sounds legit. Even at only 4 points over 75th percentile at the T4 I applied to the rep who called me to tell me I had been admitted sounded very pleasantly surprised that I was actually excited to hear it, and not just another safety school afterthought applicant. And I got initial 3/4 scholarship (which I'm going to get upped to 4/4).
Re: For tier 3 and 4 schools, will a significantly higher-than-75% LSAT lead to scholarship money, despite a poor GPA?
Posted: Tue May 17, 2016 12:00 pm
by Hennessy
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Re: For tier 3 and 4 schools, will a significantly higher-than-75% LSAT lead to scholarship money, despite a poor GPA?
Posted: Tue May 17, 2016 12:12 pm
by HonestAdvice
If you're getting a 170 on timed tests you'll get around a 170. People under perform all the time, but if you're consistently get a 170, eventually you'll get that or very close on the real thing. The people PTing 30 points higher than their score never really got that score on a practice test - they're lying or grading themselves as "i should have picked B so will count B".
Re: For tier 3 and 4 schools, will a significantly higher-than-75% LSAT lead to scholarship money, despite a poor GPA?
Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2016 12:26 pm
by Dads707
Nagster5 wrote:Chris4943 wrote:Nagster5 wrote:Im in at several T14s and have full rides at several T20s with a 2.7.
What's the other data point we're looking for?
What LSAT got you full rides at all the T20s?
177. The point is anyone testing 15-20 points over the 75th of their target schools is targeting the wrong schools, even if they have 0 tuition as a prerequisite.
170/2.66 here. In at T20 with 90%.
Lowest USNWR ranking I applied to and considered were in #50s and that was due to their proximity to my home. Got 75% at both initially, and one of the two bumped to 100% unsolicited before I withdrew.