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GoldenRetriever1988 wrote:3.6 GPA with an upward grade trend (2.4 first year then non stop 4.0s), 179 LSAT, a great letter of rec from a national congressman (who I volunteered for), another letter of rec from an English Professor who LOVES me, and I played club rugby for my junior and senior years. Also, all of this is from a state school. What are chances at YSH? Yale, Stanford, Harvard- not Yeshiva.

GoldenRetriever1988 wrote:I attended a community college for the first two years of college. I earned 98+ grades in all my classes, but the CC only issues A's, not A+'s. An A is 90-100. Am I stuck calculating in the 4.0 instead of the 4.3?

EdgarWinter wrote:

GoldenRetriever1988 wrote:3.6 GPA with an upward grade trend (2.4 first year then non stop 4.0s), 179 LSAT, a great letter of rec from a national congressman (who I volunteered for), another letter of rec from an English Professor who LOVES me, and I played club rugby for my junior and senior years. Also, all of this is from a state school. What are chances at YSH? Yale, Stanford, Harvard- not Yeshiva.

On the congressman thing--Does this Congressman know you? Do you address him as [first name] or as [Congressman _____]? How much contact did he actually have with you? Because if this is one of those things where you brought him donuts one time and his staffers wrote you a generic rec letter than it will look bad on your application. Adcomms know that congresspeople often don't know or give a shit about their interns/volunteers and that they have staffers who write stuff for them. It will come off as fake and condescending.