crit_racer wrote:you're really going to wait a year instead of taking a T20 w/ scholly? I'm on the Hastings and UT WLs as well and want nothing more than to get off, but I don't know if it's worth reapplying. You're in a similar situation in that I doubt your LSAT is what's keeping you out of these schools...
Just curious b/c I'm facing a similar dilemma but can't really imagine waiting a year for the chanceof acceptance from one of these other schools...
I really want to work in the Bay Area, and I've been looking at the top 250 firms' SF/Sillicon Valley offices and finding almost no graduates of WUSTL or Emory, and only a few from GW (which is so expensive I can't even really consider it.) I've started teaching lsat classes since I took the test the last time and I feel more prepared to take the LSAT than ever. It looks to me that if I can get my lsat up to a 173 or so, I'd have a chance at Georgetown and distance myself from my gpa by having more time pass since undergrad. I also didn't apply to Davis, which seems to have good bay area placement. I feel like I might even be better off with a degree from Santa Clara because it seems to be dominating the Palo Alto offices.
Taking another year off for me wouldn't be a disaster. I love SF, where I'm living, have great friends and a good job I really like. I'm young enough (I graduated early,) that I'd still be on the younger side of my class even if I enrolled in 2012. It's not a decision I'm sure about, and I might be depositing at one of these schools anyway, but with law school being such an expensive investment, I want to make sure that the money I'm spending will put me where I want to be.
