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Hey. Been waiting anxiously for my LSAT results and started putting together the rest of my package.

One thing that concerned me was my GPA. I understand schools care about the GPA regardless of major and school (but consider it). My GPA according to LSAC is a 3.65. My degree GPA is only 3.53 (transferred in).

It feels like a 3.55-3.65 range is a "no mans land" in GPA. The top 20 typically have medians around 3.7 and a 25th percentile around 3.5. The schools below have around a 3.5 - 3.6 GPA. It seems like its a sudden jump in GPA so in one end I am below medians and the other I am above.

How did others fare with GPAs in this range? Am I just ignorant or did anyone else feel/notice this?


*One point I would like to add about my GPA and school/major is a 3.55 constitutes Highest Honors. a 3.35 is High Honors and a 3.15 is Honors. I went to Georgia Tech (top 5 engineering, and overall peer school to Michigan/UCLA etc) and graduated with a B.S Aerospace Engineering.

I'm in the same boat too! Great question

The honors/school doesn't really matter much tbh. The law school reports your GPA, they don't qualify the number with anything.

Depending on what you get on the LSAT and where you want to apply, the GPA won't hurt you.

I literally have no idea what you're asking. You have a 3.65. It's better than a 3.5 and worse than a 3.75. I don't think "no man's land" is a useful characterization.

I had a 3.65 and I did pretty well. I think being just over the 25th is a fine place to be if you've got a healthy lsat score.

Thanks Clemenceau!

Generally, 3.65 is very unlikely to make Yale or Stanford but outside of that every school is in play with a high enough LSAT score. Just work as hard as you can on the LSAT and the sky is pretty much the limit.

First off, blanket the entire T14.

Also, I just sent you a pm.

Edit: To the extent you care about anonymity you may want to edit the OP. You'll probably be the only person from your major at that school applying for the next three years.

87mm wrote:It feels like a 3.55-3.65 range is a "no mans land" in GPA. The top 20 typically have medians around 3.7 and a 25th percentile around 3.5. The schools below have around a 3.5 - 3.6 GPA. It seems like its a sudden jump in GPA so in one end I am below medians and the other I am above.

So you would be part of the 25% of the class that's between the median and the 25th percentile.

Are you concerned for some reason that there are no schools where you're right at median?

3.65 is fine, you can get Harvard and T14$$ with that GPA nothing to worry about just focus on the LSAT