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Will graduate Summa Cum Laude at Rice but LSAT was 162 and don't have time for another. I studied my ass off for months with 168-175 PTs but the real test didn't click. Wanting UT Austin and to practice in oil and gas in Houston. I did a semester at London School of Economics, interned at House of Commons for a MP and did internships with US Representatives. Letters from former Harvard profs, Congressmen and Brit MP.

Will my GPA overcome the LSAT for UT?

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Probably not getting in at UT with that LSAT but not completely hopeless since they heavily prefer Texas residents. You aren't by chance a URM are you? That would increase your chances substantially.

Jetdriver69 wrote:Will graduate Summa Cum Laude at Rice but LSAT was 162 and don't have time for another. I studied my ass off for months with 168-175 PTs but the real test didn't click. Wanting UT Austin and to practice in oil and gas in Houston. I did a semester at London School of Economics, interned at House of Commons for a MP and did internships with US Representatives. Letters from former Harvard profs, Congressmen and Brit MP.

Will my GPA overcome the LSAT for UT?

Unless your categories of LORs are overlapping, it sounds like you have a minimum of 5.

UT takes a maximum of three LORs. Under no circumstances should you exceed that limit.

Also, hopefully at least one of those "former Harvard profs" taught you in an actual academic setting. You need at least one academic LOR, especially as a KJD. The letters from Congressmen and the MP will only be helpful if they were your direct supervisors and can speak very specifically about you. "X interned in my office and was a great asset to the team" will be useless.

Also, it's false that you don't have time for another LSAT. You can take a year off and apply next cycle. You clearly won't have any trouble finding something to do to occupy that year. If you choose not to, fine, but at least acknowledge that you're making a choice not to raise your LSAT.

Your GPA is good enough to attend Retake St. University. Don't waste that opportunity.

Anecdotal, but knew someone with basically the exact same stats a couple years ago and they were waitlisted. If you did squeak in off the WL, Texas wouldn't be worth sticker anyways so retake.

Oh yeah, and if George W. can't get into Texas Law with his softs, I doubt yours are going to carry you either.

On the off chance you haven't gotten this advice already: retake the LSAT and wait a year. Get a 170+ and go to HYS. Do not waste that GPA.

Kitakk wrote:On the off chance you haven't gotten this advice already: retake the LSAT and wait a year. Get a 170+ and go to HYS. Do not waste that GPA.

I loled

Clearly you missed his rage quit on one of his numerous threads