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I am currently at CUNY Brooklyn College and have a 3.7 GPA
I plan on studying abroad
I plan on getting a 170+ on LSATs
I also work fulltime and plan on doing tonssss of extracurricular activities!

What are your odds of getting a 173+? That.

dglover29 wrote:I am currently at CUNY Brooklyn College and have a 3.7 GPA
I plan on studying abroad
I plan on getting a 170+ on LSATs
I also work fulltime and plan on doing tonssss of extracurricular activities!

Come back when you have a real LSAT score.

Get your GPA above NYU's median.

Score 172+ on an actual LSAT administration.

Everything else is you listed is irrelevant.

Plans are super neat.... Personally I plan on being #1 in the entire class in law school and clerking for the Supreme Court of the United States!

what is bk college? a school to learn how to make burger king meals?

Adjudicator wrote:Plans are super neat.... Personally I plan on being #1 in the entire class in law school and clerking for the Supreme Court of the United States!

Me too, 'cept I'll win a few Super Bowls and walk on the moon somewhere in between.

$1.99 wrote:what is bk college? a school to learn how to make burger king meals?

Brooklyn College

bk187 wrote:Get your GPA above NYU's median.

Score 172+ on an actual LSAT administration.

Everything else is you listed is irrelevant.

Thanks soo much my nerves are about a 5 now in a scale from 1 to 10 lol

gbpackerbacker wrote:

Adjudicator wrote:Plans are super neat.... Personally I plan on being #1 in the entire class in law school and clerking for the Supreme Court of the United States!

Me too, 'cept I'll win a few Super Bowls and walk on the moon somewhere in between.

Wimps. I'll be resolving world hunger and colonizing Mars by 2014.

UG reputation barely matters. Focus on your GPA/LSAT.

Edit: Also, plans aren't worth much.

Coming from a CUNY shouldn't have any negative effect. I made NYU and Columbia myself. Just make sure you are at 170+ on the LSAT and you should have a decent shot.

Stanford4Me wrote:UG reputation barely matters. Focus on your GPA/LSAT.

Edit: Also, plans aren't worth much.

UG rep barely matters??? Doubtful. Admissions committees aren't stupid, they know the difference between a 3.7 at bumfuck state university versus a 3.7 at a top school. They also know about grade inflation.

Coming from SUNY Brooklyn, make sure you're nearly the best of your UG's law school applicant pool. Then actually score in the 170s. Then ask.

Cade McNown wrote:

Stanford4Me wrote:UG reputation barely matters. Focus on your GPA/LSAT.

Edit: Also, plans aren't worth much.

UG rep barely matters??? Doubtful. Admissions committees aren't stupid, they know the difference between a 3.7 at bumfuck state university versus a 3.7 at a top school. They also know about grade inflation.

Coming from SUNY Brooklyn, make sure you're nearly the best of your UG's law school applicant pool. Then actually score in the 170s. Then ask.

Correct, UG rep barely matters. Get a 4.0 there and get a high LSAT and it won't matter for shit where you went to kollege.

Cade McNown wrote:

Stanford4Me wrote:UG reputation barely matters. Focus on your GPA/LSAT.

Edit: Also, plans aren't worth much.

UG rep barely matters??? Doubtful. Admissions committees aren't stupid,they know the difference between a 3.7 at bumfuck state university versus a 3.7 HYP (maybe). They also know about grade inflation.

Coming from SUNY Brooklyn, make sure you're nearly the best of your UG's law school applicant pool. are above NYU's median. Then actually score in the 170s. Then ask.

FTFY

Cade McNown wrote:

Stanford4Me wrote:UG reputation barely matters. Focus on your GPA/LSAT.

Edit: Also, plans aren't worth much.

UG rep barely matters??? Doubtful. Admissions committees aren't stupid, they know the difference between a 3.7 at bumfuck state university versus a 3.7 at a top school. They also know about grade inflation.

Coming from SUNY Brooklyn, make sure you're nearly the best of your UG's law school applicant pool. Then actually score in the 170s. Then ask.

Lol, you new around these parts?

Cade McNown wrote:

Stanford4Me wrote:UG reputation barely matters. Focus on your GPA/LSAT.

Edit: Also, plans aren't worth much.

UG rep barely matters??? Doubtful. Admissions committees aren't stupid, they know the difference between a 3.7 at bumfuck state university versus a 3.7 at a top school. They also know about grade inflation.

Coming from SUNY Brooklyn, make sure you're nearly the best of your UG's law school applicant pool. Then actually score in the 170s. Then ask.

I'm sorry, I didn't know US News based its rankings on a Law School's undergrad base. STFU 0L and GTFO.

flame?

Stanford4Me wrote:UG reputation barely matters. Focus on your GPA/LSAT.

Edit: Also, plans aren't worth much.

Plans aren't worth much, eh, Stanford4Me attenting NYU?

paulinaporizkova wrote:

Stanford4Me wrote:UG reputation barely matters. Focus on your GPA/LSAT.

Edit: Also, plans aren't worth much.

Plans aren't worth much, eh, Stanford4Me attenting NYU?

$1.99 wrote:what is bk college? a school to learn how to make burger king meals?

That would be less funny if I hadn't just read Burger King v Rudezwicz in Civ Pro (And it is Burger King University, for the record. There also exists Whopper College Regional Training Centers. I **** you not.)

OP: Good luck on the LSAT.

So you plan on scoring above 97% of all LSAT test takers ? Seems like a foolproof plan.

FWIW, my cycle has pretty much as my numbers suggested, despite the fact that I went to Bumfuck State University.

Stanford4Me wrote:

paulinaporizkova wrote:

Stanford4Me wrote:UG reputation barely matters. Focus on your GPA/LSAT.

Edit: Also, plans aren't worth much.

Plans aren't worth much, eh, Stanford4Me attenting NYU?

I like your new tar.

Too many people to quote, sorry.

No, not new around here, this is my second cycle on TLS. Not a flame. Not fooled by common TLS misconceptions. UG Rep matters. Sure it doesn't matter for USNWR, but last I checked the NYU admissions committee is not USNWR. If you go to a shit UG, and apologies to OP but that's what CUNY BK is, you had better get a 4.0 or else you're toast! The comment about UG class rank and relative position to other BK law school hopefuls was just an attempt to quantify this.

On the flip side, applicants from strong UG institutions with no grade inflation get unofficial GPA bumps from admissions committees. Again grade inflation is discernible by looking at relative position to other LS applicants from your UG, and also through lay impressions of inflation. Some of the strongest UGs, many Ivys for instance, do not get this bump because it is well known that the only hard part is being accepted in the first place. I got all this from personal convos with Berkeley, UCLA, and USC deans and/or committee members. I see no reason why it would be any different at NYU than at the California schools. Berkeley committee member: "We consider a 3.6/3.7 at School X a 4.0." (PM if you care what School X is). Straight from the horse's mouth.

I realize that this is not a popular stance on TLS, whatever. OP, I would urge you to ask this question in other forums/venues besides TLS and see how the answers vary. TLS is great, but the answers aren't always as cut and dried as they seem here.