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Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 7:26 pm
by azwethinkweizm
I have a bachelors in elementary education and my friend has a bachelors in engineering. We both made 175's on our LSAT; however, I have a 3.9 GPA and he has a 3.7 GPA. If the top 10 law schools had to choose one of us to admit, which one do you think it would be?
Re: Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 7:28 pm
by InLikeFlint
you will both get in everywhere you apply!
Re: Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 7:29 pm
by jcunni5
You Dude 3.9, 175 FTW, schools are number whores
Re: Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 7:34 pm
by The Gentleman
FLAME.
Re: Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 7:36 pm
by azwethinkweizm
No this isn't a fake profile and I'm not trying to cause trouble. I'm trying to settle a GPA argument with someone that thinks that law schools care a lot about your major.
Re: Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 7:39 pm
by thecilent
I think your friend will have a better ps/recs/softs .. so I will go with him
Re: Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 7:40 pm
by OGR3
If you want a real answer, the only schools that I believe would really care about this difference would be HYS, as the 3.7 would be below their 25%.
That said, anyone who legitimately argues about the difference between a 3.7/175 and a 3.9/175 is a douchebag.
Re: Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 7:43 pm
by Richie Tenenbaum
azwethinkweizm wrote:I have a bachelors in elementary education and my friend has a bachelors in engineering. We both made 175's on our LSAT; however, I have a 3.9 GPA and he has a 3.7 GPA. If the top 10 law schools had to choose one of us to admit, which one do you think it would be?
You have the advantage. If his GPA was the same as yours or just slightly less, everything else besides the major being equal, he would have the advantage. The .2 difference is too significant to make schools who are number whores to care about the harder major though.
Re: Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 7:46 pm
by Bildungsroman
thecilent wrote:I think your friend will have a better ps/recs/softs
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Re: Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 7:54 pm
by FuManChusco
Bildungsroman wrote:thecilent wrote:I think your friend will have a better ps/recs/softs
lolwut.jpg
Image fail. Also, this is a flame.
Re: Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 7:59 pm
by azwethinkweizm
FuManChusco wrote:Bildungsroman wrote:thecilent wrote:I think your friend will have a better ps/recs/softs
lolwut.jpg
Image fail. Also, this is a flame.
No it's not, it's a legitimate question. Where else am I going to get an answer like this from people that know what they are talking about?
Re: Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 11:16 pm
by ATR
Doesn't matter, both will probably get in T6.
Re: Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 11:42 pm
by pattonthicke
Eh, ill go with u. While it should prob be him b/c his major is way harder than yours, the reality of law school admissions suggests the diff between a 3.7 and 3.9 while not extremely huge, is enough to put you in a different range.
Re: Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2010 11:43 pm
by BrownBears09
azwethinkweizm wrote:I have a bachelors in elementary education and my friend has a bachelors in engineering. We both made 175's on our LSAT; however, I have a 3.9 GPA and he has a 3.7 GPA. If the top 10 law schools had to choose one of us to admit, which one do you think it would be?
The URM.
Re: Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 10:53 am
by gambelda
2 guys competing to see which will get into a better school with high 3's GPA's and 175 LSATs.....you two will fit in nicely at Harvard with the other pretencious pricks.
Re: Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 10:56 am
by kkklick
This is most definately flam. A 3.9 175+ would be smart enough to know he has a better shot than his "pal", but in all likelyhood they'll get in everywhere. Damn trolls.
Re: Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Thu Dec 16, 2010 10:56 am
by krad
OGR3 wrote:If you want a real answer, the only schools that I believe would really care about this difference would be HYS, as the 3.7 would be below their 25%.
That said, anyone who legitimately argues about the difference between a 3.7/175 and a 3.9/175 is a douchebag.
Re: Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 1:23 pm
by Blindc1rca
absolute flame.
i would hope that someone with a 175 and a 3.9 in elementary education would understand enough basic grammar to avoid an egregious error like the one on display in the title of this thread.
Re: Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 1:46 pm
by gochrisgo
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Re: Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 1:52 pm
by Ragged
Flame but for the sake of compariseon. 175/3.9 has the upper hand in HYS (espessially H) the rest of the T10 you both will get in but you will probably get more money.
Re: Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 2:00 pm
by Bosque
You might get into a school easier, but your friend is going to have an easier time getting a job (depending on the type of engineering - IE doesn't count). I don't think there will be all that much of a difference when ti comes to scholarship money. He might even get more, depending on the other circumstances we don't know.
Re: Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 2:02 pm
by BriaTharen
krad wrote:OGR3 wrote:If you want a real answer, the only schools that I believe would really care about this difference would be HYS, as the 3.7 would be below their 25%.
That said, anyone who legitimately argues about the difference between a 3.7/175 and a 3.9/175 is a douchebag.
Re: Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 4:23 pm
by FuManChusco
gochrisgo wrote:FuManChusco wrote:Bildungsroman wrote:thecilent wrote:I think your friend will have a better ps/recs/softs
lolwut.jpg
Image fail. Also, this is a flame.
Lurk more. He did that on purpose.
well that was extremely hypocritical.
Re: Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 4:27 pm
by dresden doll
You win in the admissions game, he wins come OCI time (assuming similar negligible GPA differentials).
So I'd say he wins overall.
Re: Who has the advantage to a top 10 law school, me or him?
Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 4:28 pm
by BrownBears09
FuManChusco wrote:gochrisgo wrote:FuManChusco wrote:Bildungsroman wrote:
lolwut.jpg
Image fail. Also, this is a flame.
Lurk more. He did that on purpose.
well that was extremely hypocritical.
This stream of quotes is hilarious.