3.51/175
Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 11:32 pm
Numbers: 3.51 Undergrad GPA, 175 (practice)
Screwed up my freshman year (2.2), upper division GPA is 3.81 with a clear upward trend, though I know that doesn't help much.
3.9 Master's in Accounting, from one of the two top state schools for that particular degree. Aware this also doesn't help much.
Softs: I'm applying for Class of 2016, and when applications roll around I will have two full years of Big 4 Tax under my belt, and will finish roughly three before starting. In all likelihood, I will be a CPA. Outside of that, I'm an upper middle class white kid who's not particularly into helping others or changing the world.
I'm guessing practice tests aren't too accurate in the scores they give at the high end, which would make 175 not a sure thing. I'm pretty confident though, I smashed comparable amounts of face on the GMAT while being relatively under-prepared, and I'm hitting this one very hard. For the sake of the thread, let's assume I score in that immediate area.
The schools I'm looking at are
NW
UMich
Cornell
GTown
USC
UT
Vandy
with a particular emphasis on NW since I am after all, a dinosaur. Is this a realistic range? Should I be looking higher/lower? Perhaps consider spending another year as a woefully underpaid capital markets servant? Any particular schools that favor LSAT over GPA and still manage strong placements?
Also an unrelated question if you don't mind, I hate making multiple threads. When evaluating law schools, I look at their placements and consider any private sector jobs at 100+ firms, academic pursuits, or clerkships "doing well"; and conversely public interest, government, small firm and corporate jobs "doing badly", then evaluate how much of the class is doing well. The biggest flaw with this method that I have found is that there are some people who actually want to be doing PI/gov work (needless to say, their priorities don't align with mine). Is there a general estimate I can use for how many willing PI grads are in a class versus how many couldn't get private sector jobs?
Thanks lawbros.
Screwed up my freshman year (2.2), upper division GPA is 3.81 with a clear upward trend, though I know that doesn't help much.
3.9 Master's in Accounting, from one of the two top state schools for that particular degree. Aware this also doesn't help much.
Softs: I'm applying for Class of 2016, and when applications roll around I will have two full years of Big 4 Tax under my belt, and will finish roughly three before starting. In all likelihood, I will be a CPA. Outside of that, I'm an upper middle class white kid who's not particularly into helping others or changing the world.
I'm guessing practice tests aren't too accurate in the scores they give at the high end, which would make 175 not a sure thing. I'm pretty confident though, I smashed comparable amounts of face on the GMAT while being relatively under-prepared, and I'm hitting this one very hard. For the sake of the thread, let's assume I score in that immediate area.
The schools I'm looking at are
NW
UMich
Cornell
GTown
USC
UT
Vandy
with a particular emphasis on NW since I am after all, a dinosaur. Is this a realistic range? Should I be looking higher/lower? Perhaps consider spending another year as a woefully underpaid capital markets servant? Any particular schools that favor LSAT over GPA and still manage strong placements?
Also an unrelated question if you don't mind, I hate making multiple threads. When evaluating law schools, I look at their placements and consider any private sector jobs at 100+ firms, academic pursuits, or clerkships "doing well"; and conversely public interest, government, small firm and corporate jobs "doing badly", then evaluate how much of the class is doing well. The biggest flaw with this method that I have found is that there are some people who actually want to be doing PI/gov work (needless to say, their priorities don't align with mine). Is there a general estimate I can use for how many willing PI grads are in a class versus how many couldn't get private sector jobs?
Thanks lawbros.