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3.5 engineering gpa/169

Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2014 11:26 am
by personperson
I am about to graduate this fall with a mechanical engineering degree this fall with around a 3.5 GPA from Penn State. My lsat score is a 169.

I plan on applying to all of the best law schools but I'm not sure about my GPA. All the profiles I've seen were 3.9's and 3.8's that got accepted to harvard and yale etc. But their majors were english and literature and philosophy and the likes.

Did anyone get accepted to these law schools with a lower engineering GPA?

Re: 3.5 engineering gpa/169

Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2014 11:46 am
by BigZuck
personperson wrote:I am about to graduate this fall with a mechanical engineering degree this fall with around a 3.5 GPA from Penn State. My lsat score is a 169.

I plan on applying to all of the best law schools but I'm not sure about my GPA. All the profiles I've seen were 3.9's and 3.8's that got accepted to harvard and yale etc. But their majors were english and literature and philosophy and the likes.

Did anyone get accepted to these law schools with a lower engineering GPA?
Schools just care about the number of the GPA, not the major.

3.51 in underwater basket weaving>>>>>>3.5 in astrophysics

Your LSAT would preclude you from HYS anyway, but it's a lost cause with that GPA.

Check out mylsn.info to assess your chances

Re: 3.5 engineering gpa/169

Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2014 11:49 am
by Ramius
Your major won't play a factor in admissions. You also won't get HYS without an LSAT retake and a 176+ or urm status.

With your 169/3.5, you're looking at lower T14, probably with some schollies sprinkled in.

Re: 3.5 engineering gpa/169

Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2014 5:33 pm
by 03152016
out at hys
out at ccn
out at penn, uva, nu, boalt
50/50 umich and duke
in at cornell, gulc
i'm bearish on scholly chances

w 5 point lsat boost
out at hys + chi
reasonable to excellent chances elsewhere
$$/$$$