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3.98 overall
4.0 major(economics & chemistry)
science GPA 3.97(took it for medical school but not so sure i want to go anymore)
No LSat but im strongly considering taking it.

No one can help without an LSAT score. Your GPA won't keep you OUT of any schools though...so there is that.

LSAT is about three times as important as your GPA.

edit: with a good LSAT you can go anywhere.

Are you fucking serious?

budda10000 wrote:3.98 overall
4.0 major(economics & chemistry)
science GPA 3.97(took it for medical school but not so sure i want to go anymore)
No LSat but im strongly considering taking it.

Eh, your major and overall GPA's are pretty good, but your app is definitely going to take a hit from that "science" GPA.

MrKappus wrote:

budda10000 wrote:3.98 overall
4.0 major(economics & chemistry)
science GPA 3.97(took it for medical school but not so sure i want to go anymore)
No LSat but im strongly considering taking it.

Eh, your major and overall GPA's are pretty good, but your app is definitely going to take a hit from that "science" GPA.

+1, you might want to consider Cooley

T14 has a hard floor on science GPA at 3.98.

If i might inquire... What is the problem with being a science double major? The material is far more difficult and lawyers that are versed in science seem like they would come at a premium in chemical industries ect.... + your guaranteed someone with religious study habits.

budda10000 wrote:If i might inquire... What is the problem with being a science double major? The material is far more difficult and lawyers that are versed in science seem like they would come at a premium in chemical industries ect.... + your guaranteed someone with religious study habits.

They're messing with you, bud. That's an impressive GPA. Come back when you have an LSAT or even how you are doing on practice tests. If you get a 170+ you have a good shot at most. 175+ would be golden pretty much anywhere. It's hard to predict YHS.

budda10000 wrote:If i might inquire... What is the problem with being a science double major? The material is far more difficult and lawyers that are versed in science seem like they would come at a premium in chemical industries ect.... + your guaranteed someone with religious study habits.

Because the skills needed to do science and the skills needed to do law don't really mesh. A science BS prizes memorization, experimentation, and precision. Law encourages creative, outside of the box thinking and a difficult type of researching. And the writing style is completely different.

I recommend you don't go to law school, all in all.

akili wrote:

budda10000 wrote:If i might inquire... What is the problem with being a science double major? The material is far more difficult and lawyers that are versed in science seem like they would come at a premium in chemical industries ect.... + your guaranteed someone with religious study habits.

They're messing with you, bud. That's an impressive GPA. Come back when you have an LSAT or even how you are doing on practice tests. If you get a 170+ you have a good shot at most. 175+ would be golden pretty much anywhere. It's hard to predict YHS.

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See above

rad law wrote:

akili wrote:

budda10000 wrote:If i might inquire... What is the problem with being a science double major? The material is far more difficult and lawyers that are versed in science seem like they would come at a premium in chemical industries ect.... + your guaranteed someone with religious study habits.

They're messing with you, bud. That's an impressive GPA. Come back when you have an LSAT or even how you are doing on practice tests. If you get a 170+ you have a good shot at most. 175+ would be golden pretty much anywhere. It's hard to predict YHS.

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See above

Oh I didn't catch the "material is far more difficult." I retract my previous post.

If you want to attend a top school, you should strongly consider nailing the LSAT.

Do you list trolling law school forums as one of your EC's?

budda10000 wrote:Do you list trolling law school forums as one of your EC's?

This from the author of one of the most annoying OP's in TLS history? Mmmkay.

Threads like this make me want to stay in cities where I already know people so I don't have to hang out with law students.

OP---if you get a 167+ you have a good shot at a top school (Cornell, UT, USC, UCLA, Berkeley)

168+ for schools like UPenn, UVA, Duke, Michigan

170+ and you are probably getting shots at NYU, Chicago, Columbia---Harvard Stanford and Yale are harder to tell

Such a short post and yet it manages to showcase your ignorance in two ways.

Veyron wrote:Such a short post and yet it manages to showcase your ignorance in two ways.

And they are??

I think he means you need an LSAT to get chanced, and it's hard to do better than your GPA.

funkytown wrote:I think he means you need an LSAT to get chanced, and it's hard to do better than your GPA.

Actually, an LSAT to get chanced and the traditional demarcation is top 14.

Veyron wrote:

funkytown wrote:I think he means you need an LSAT to get chanced, and it's hard to do better than your GPA.

Actually, an LSAT to get chanced and the traditional demarcation is top 14.

No love for UCLA?

HeavenWood wrote:

Veyron wrote:

funkytown wrote:I think he means you need an LSAT to get chanced, and it's hard to do better than your GPA.

Actually, an LSAT to get chanced and the traditional demarcation is top 14.

No love for UCLA?

Oh, I love UCLA but I the stories that drift out about their OCI are similar in tenor to the stories that escape from a city struck by a zombie apocalypse. In any event, UT is the "traditional" #15 (one reason why its T-14, a closed group is less confusing).

HeavenWood wrote:

Veyron wrote:

funkytown wrote:I think he means you need an LSAT to get chanced, and it's hard to do better than your GPA.

Actually, an LSAT to get chanced and the traditional demarcation is top 14.

No love for UCLA?

no love for UT?