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kwroche wrote:Hi Board.

I've been reading up information on these boards for a while. Wanted to get the opinion of this board on what my chances are for law school with the following resume and also wanted to ask a few other questions:

- 171 LSAT
- 3.0 GPA in Chemical Engineering with a double Minor
- President of the school of Chemical Engineering's student body my senior year
- 2 years of WE in top consulting firm with early promotion
- Co-Founder of residential real estate firm (Licensed managing real estate broker)
- CEO of a tech start up that raised a 50k angel investment and incubation before failing to secure second round funding
- 25 years old

With that, what would be my chances at a T-14 for 2012-2013 application? Also, I just took the December LSATs, and am wondering if it would be worth it to try and raise my score to the 174-176 range (where I was testing.) I know I can do better because I missed four questions on the Games section due to a missed bubble on the scantron. That was a tough one to swallow haha!

Also, even though applications are a solid 6 months away, I am wondering how best to approach my low GPA. I received a full academic scholarship to undergrad, but struggled my Sophomore and Junior year caused by extreme insomnia. After graduation, I was diagnosed with ADHD, which was the cause of my insomnia.

Any insight to my chances and what I should do from an application standpoint are much appreciated!

kwroche wrote:Thank you swt. Any chance of getting into T14 without retake?

Grizz wrote:Having a failed startup is a good soft?

Nelson wrote:

kwroche wrote:Thank you swt. Any chance of getting into T14 without retake?

You're a lock at Northwestern with that work experience. Michigan and GULC are the other T14 possibilities. I don't know that retaking would help you all that much with that GPA since you're below a lot of floors but a resident splitter might be able to tell you more.

taxguy wrote:Sorry, I wouldn't say you are a lock at Northwestern. I also don't think you will get into either Cornell or Michigan; however, you still should apply to some of these top schools. Maybe they will value your work experience heavily. You are a lock at Fordham, Boston University, George Washington, Illinois, Notre Dame, Washington University St. Louis, Alabama and many others.

kwroche wrote:So from what I hear I have a pretty good shot at Northwestern? What about schools like Georgetown, Cornell, NYU, Michigan and Virginia (reason I ask about Virginia is I received a fee waiver from them).

And Grizz, if you are curious, the start up failed to secure second round funding because another company out of the Valley beat us to market, and was able to secure a very large investment round which killed the excitement behind our company / idea.

And I am curious why some of the responses say that I have such a good shot at Northwestern in particular, even with such a low GPA. I know that they weight WE more than any other law school in the T14, but is their any real evidence that shows they take candidates similar to me with any sort of regular frequency.

Thanks again!

taxguy wrote:Sorry, I wouldn't say you are a lock at Northwestern. I also don't think you will get into either Cornell or Michigan; however, you still should apply to some of these top schools. Maybe they will value your work experience heavily. You are a lock at Fordham, Boston University, George Washington, Illinois, Notre Dame, Washington University St. Louis, Alabama and many others.

chem wrote:

kwroche wrote:So from what I hear I have a pretty good shot at Northwestern? What about schools like Georgetown, Cornell, NYU, Michigan and Virginia (reason I ask about Virginia is I received a fee waiver from them).

And Grizz, if you are curious, the start up failed to secure second round funding because another company out of the Valley beat us to market, and was able to secure a very large investment round which killed the excitement behind our company / idea.

And I am curious why some of the responses say that I have such a good shot at Northwestern in particular, even with such a low GPA. I know that they weight WE more than any other law school in the T14, but is their any real evidence that shows they take candidates similar to me with any sort of regular frequency.

Thanks again!

I know more than 90% have more than a year of WE, and more than 60% have more than 2 years WE. Their medians are lightly lower than their ranking

chem wrote:

kwroche wrote:So from what I hear I have a pretty good shot at Northwestern? What about schools like Georgetown, Cornell, NYU, Michigan and Virginia (reason I ask about Virginia is I received a fee waiver from them).

And Grizz, if you are curious, the start up failed to secure second round funding because another company out of the Valley beat us to market, and was able to secure a very large investment round which killed the excitement behind our company / idea.

And I am curious why some of the responses say that I have such a good shot at Northwestern in particular, even with such a low GPA. I know that they weight WE more than any other law school in the T14, but is their any real evidence that shows they take candidates similar to me with any sort of regular frequency.

Thanks again!

I know more than 90% have more than a year of WE, and more than 60% have more than 2 years WE. Their medians are lightly lower than their ranking

kwroche wrote:Thanks for all the advice Samara. Right now I am thinking that pulling off retaking the June LSAT might be a bit tough due to what my work schedule will look like then, but I am definitely still considering it. I read your splitter post, and found your insight on the ED at Virginia interesting.
However, Northwestern I would say is my target school, seeing as my Real Estate practice is in Chicago, and I live three blocks from the school haha. Would you say it would be more advantageous for me then to go ED at Northwestern? Does it significantly boost my chances?