ITT: Knock, Eskimo, & Friends Predict Your Chances Forum

[lhlee]

LSDAS GPA:3.58
LSAT Score(s): 165
URM Status: none (chinese)
UG Institution:UCLA
Work Experience:4 years, 15 hrs/week SO and JR year, 24hrs/wk SR year
Softs: volunteered at a family law resource center, 2 really good letter of recs, coordinated a book drive to promote global literacy @ ucla
Regional Preference:west coast, northeast, chicago
Targets/Reaches:Northwestern, usc, ucla, UC davis, bu, bc, uc hastings


Thanks!

[094320]

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[icouldbuyu]

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[OrdinarilySkilled]

Thx kitten

[094320]

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[DR42]

LSDAS GPA: 4.0
LSAT Score(s): 162
URM Status: Non-Traditional, Immigrant
UG Institution: Large Public University
Work Experience: Graduate Research Assistant, Top Campus Leadership Position (Paid - 20 hrs/wk), Summer Part Times
Softs: Masters, Socioeconomic, Heavy Research Emphasis with Scholarships, Strong LOR
Regional Preference: Northeast
Targets/Reaches: Highest Ranked
Anything Else (optional):

[Dany]

LDAS GPA: 3.87
LSAT: 170,168,174
Non-URM
UG Institution: big and well known but shitty
Work experience: out of college but not real W/E yet
Softs: average to low
Regional: TX
Targets/reaches: I can haz HYS?

WL/WL(out): H (averages LSAT)

Out: YS (w/ lack of good softs)

[Knock]

this looks fun. it's like getting your horoscope!

LSDAS GPA: 3.33
LSAT Score(s): 175
URM Status: none
UG Institution: UMichigan
Work Experience: By the time I apply next year... 1.5 years (actually 2, but scanning blueprints for 6 months doesn't really count)
Softs: Working with ex-cons? AmeriCorps
Regional Preference: Coasts and Chicago
Targets/Reaches: U Chicago, UC Berkley (damn my gpa!), uva, upenn, umich, ucla, northwestern, harvard? (i think i hear reality laughing )
Anything Else (optional):

Splitter, will have an unpredictable cycle, apply broadly.

In:
UVA (ED would solidify this more), Northwestern (ED would solidify more)

Out:
Berkeley, Chicago, Harvard

Waitlist:
Michigan, Penn, UCLA

Recommendation:
ED to your preference of UVA, NU, M, P if you don't mind paying sticker.

[Bildungsroman]

LSDAS GPA: 3.3
LSAT Score(s): 154 (probably going to retake, but I have 3 finals at the same time (Friday 10th, and Monday 13th) in December
URM Status: No- Chinese/Female
UG Institution: McGill (Canada)
Work Experience: Taught tennis-8 years, worked at Children's Hospital
Softs: Average, worked in 2 psychology labs, volunteered in hospitals, extracurriculars at school
Regional Preference: New England/East Coast (Boston, NY, Washington, Chicago)
Targets/Reaches: BU, BC, NYU (reaches), New England Law, New York Law, Suffolk, Northeastern, DePaul, Roger Williams, American
Anything Else (optional): I know you don't like hearing excuses, but my GPA's low because I took hard electives outside my majors (Calculus, Organic Chem, Biology-when I didn't have to... don't know why!) Everyone's been telling me, regardless of my GPA, that McGill's a hard school and US schools take that into account... I'm not that convinced. Any other schools I should consider, please let me know! Thanks. And I'm not a frequent user, so I may not get the TLS abbreviations
Thanks!

Out: BU, BC, NYU, American, Northeastern, DePaul

In: Suffolk, New England, NYLS, Roger Williams

So, you should retake.

[quetzal_bird]

LSDAS GPA: 3.87
LSAT Score: 165
URM Status: Mexican American female
UG Institution: one of the original Public Ivys
Work Experience: 2 year research internship with the National Security Archive. I work directly with the Argentine legal system and I've written 4 reports used in ongoing court cases.
Softs: 3 strong letters; several leadership positions on campus
Regional Preference: none
Targets/Reaches: G'town, Duke, UVA, UPenn/HYS, CCN
Anything Else: Virginia Resident; 4.0 in the past four semesters running; 4.0 in both my majors; fluency in Spanish; proficiency in French

[WhatSarahSaid]

LSDAS GPA: 3.80
LSAT Score(s): 173 (June), 174 (Oct)
URM Status: N/A
UG Institution: Large state school
Work Experience: Very little -- some easy campus jobs for most of my college career (10-15 hrs a week during school)
Softs: Virtually none. A tiny amount of volunteer stuff, VP of my social fraternity. Nothing to write home about.
Regional Preference: Midwest
Targets/Reaches: Hoping for a scholarship at one of CCN, especially Chicago. Reaching for YHS.
Anything Else (optional): Positive grade trend, like everyone else (4.04 my past two semesters). Single-parent household. First-generation college student, /shrug

[TheOcho]

LSDAS GPA: 3.7
LSAT Score: 169
URM Status: Easily sunburnt
UG Institution: Large State
Work Experience: High school hockey and soccer coach. Internship at a think take for 2 summers.
Softs: Not really. Was a college hockey recruit, good LOR's.
Regional Preference: Not really
Targets/Reaches: Michigan, Duke, Virginia, Cornell and most of 15-30.
Anything Else: I would like some $.

[achilles]

LSDAS GPA: 3.53
LSAT Score(s): 170
URM Status: White
UG Institution: BU
Work Experience: a few nice summer internships, nothing real
Softs: good LOR, basic clubs and awards
Regional Preference: TX resident, I'd go TX and east
Reaches: Penn (ED), Michigan, UVA, Georgetown, Cornell
Targets: Texas, WashU, Emory, GW, Vandy

Thanks!

[odoylerules]

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[beleaguer]

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[stephan75th]

LSDAS GPA: 3.2
LSAT: 177
URM: Ginger
UG: Northern Arizona University
Work: Lots of random work before UG. Part time during senior year of UG. Nothing major.
Soft: Tons of humanitarian volunteer work in Russia, Romania, Chile, Peru, Uganda, Kenya, 13 different trips for a total of about 7 months. Going to Uganda and Kenya again this summer for 2 weeks to a month.
Region: Coasts, Colorado, Illinois, Arizona, Tennessee, Ann Arbor
Targets: T-14, U Colorado, U Washington, Arizona State, The Georges (Washington, Mason), Vandy, U Tennessee ($$$)
Other: Upward GPA trend. 3.8+ in past year. I'm thinking I can get a full ride to ASU, if not with stipend, as an AZ resident. I want to pay as little as possible, but I don't know if I could turn down anything in the T-10 on the chance I get admitted.

[ryanshep]

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[hiddenfist]

LSDAS GPA: 3.98
LSAT Score: 172
White
In undergrad
Applied to T-14 except Northwestern

[birdlaw117]

LSDAS GPA: 3.61
LSAT Score(s): 173
URM Status: No
UG Institution: Mid-Sized Public
Work Experience: Accounting Internships
Softs: D1 Athlete, MAcc, CPA, really solid PS
Regional Preference: None
Targets/Reaches: T-14 as a whole

[Deuce]

LSDAS GPA: 3.98
LSAT Score: 172
White
In undergrad
Applied to T-14 except Northwestern

Out-HY
Chance- S
Likely Admit- CCN
Autoadmit everywhere else. Grats.

[Hedwig]

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[incompetentia]

What the hell, might as well

LSDAS GPA: 3.55 (blech)
LSAT Score(s): 180
URM Status: ORM
UG Institution: CWRU
Work Experience: 2 semesters of teaching, 1 as the instructor of record. Some secretarial work, and some chem research that I got money instead of college credit for
Softs: Master of Arts in Music with a fellowship (declined it 2nd year to teach), nontraditional student (age), does musical activism count?
Regional Preference: The farther east and larger the city, the better.
Targets/Reaches: Reaches HY (not looking at S). Targets CN (figure if I can get into Chi I can get into Col so what's the point?)

[DieAntwoord]

LSDAS GPA: 3.2
LSAT Score(s): 170,178
URM Status: AA
UG Institution: 3T
Regional Preference: snow
Targets/Reaches: ? dont know yet.

[JJDancer]

Knock - how was the retake?

168/167
3.7
Top 50 private
Softs: worked PT through UG, 2 legal internships, 1 major leadership position, volunteer tutoring and fundraising for cancer patients
regional pref: Los Angeles
Targets/reaches: ut austin, usc, UCLA, cornell
Unrealistic reaches: nyu/columbia lol I doubt I will apply since they are such reaches

[darjeelingdarling]

LSDAS GPA: 3.86
LSAT Score(s): 169, 173
URM Status: NO
UG Institution: Nowhere's ville college of nowhere
Work Experience: AP econ Teacher, community organizer
Softs: lots of international travel and volunteer experience
Regional Preference: West coast
Targets/Reaches: Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, U. Chi, NYU, Anywhere else would make me do this:
Anything Else (optional): Re-Applicant

In:
Columbia, U. Chi, NYU

Out:
Yale

Waitlist:
Harvard, Stanford

Thanks! This is what I figured - I still have my fingers crossed for S, but I don't have my hopes up.