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Obv get the highest score you can but it seems generally that AA's w near perfect GPA's (perfect in your case, assuming that's lsac calculated) need to get a 166+ to have a great shot at H and a 168+ to have a great shot at YS. Seen lower but generalizing.

Am I on CollegeConfidential?

joe1993 wrote:Am I on CollegeConfidential?

Yea, advice to the OP. All the additional stuff (softs, work experience) is usually just written as strong/weak on this site. Reason being the softs are much less important for admittance to law school than to undergrad or almost any other grad school. That being said, yours are ridiculously strong and combined with your URM AA status will give a substantial boost to your application.

Law schools care a lot about rank and thus their GPA and LSAT medians which their rank is partially based off. Your above median GPA everywhere allows the schools to care less about your LSAT. Then throw in the URM and great softs and you've got a great shot everywhere.

The only stipulation with LSAT for someone like you is that they would prefer it to not be too low where you show 'low potential' of actually succeeding in law school grade wise. I'd predict a clean sweep of every school with a 165+, but maybe better to push 170 for HYS.

Also, your incredible softs and URM status will help a ton for hiring so even if you didn't get into a T14 school (which you will), you'd still have a great shot at landing a good job with a solid academic performance in law school.

pppp wrote:

joe1993 wrote:Am I on CollegeConfidential?

Yea, advice to the OP. All the additional stuff (softs, work experience) is usually just written as strong/weak on this site. Reason being the softs are much less important for admittance to law school than to undergrad or almost any other grad school. That being said, yours are ridiculously strong and combined with your URM AA status will give a substantial boost to your application.

Law schools care a lot about rank and thus their GPA and LSAT medians which their rank is partially based off. Your above median GPA everywhere allows the schools to care less about your LSAT. Then throw in the URM and great softs and you've got a great shot everywhere.

The only stipulation with LSAT for someone like you is that they would prefer it to not be too low where you show 'low potential' of actually succeeding in law school grade wise. I'd predict a clean sweep of every school with a 165+, but maybe better to push 170 for HYS.

Also, your incredible softs and URM status will help a ton for hiring so even if you didn't get into a T14 school (which you will), you'd still have a great shot at landing a good job with a solid academic performance in law school.

Dude, if you don't end up at HYS or a t-14 for free, your screw up will be greater than these colossal errors:

1. "Dewey Beats Truman"
2. Captain Smith not slowing the Titanic down in icy waters
3. Leaving Chernobyl on or whatever they did to cause that

Also, this whole "if you get above 165" talk is irrelevant. If you can't get at least a 165, you didn't try hard enough. If you can be this Obama part 2 in all these areas of your life, you had better knock out a great score on that test. If you don't I'm going to find you and kick your ass. I'm not kidding.

Wait. You were on the SLR undergrad? Reading this again I'd predict a clean sweep of all Law Schools with a 160. This is the sort of resume that LSAT under the 25th percentile gets in. Another big thing if you're just now looking at Law Schools is that everyone outside of HYS gives a lot of $ in merit scholarships. An LSAT reaching a median at any T14 schools, all of which you (with your resume) will land a great job out of school with, may land you a ton of money. Not sure if this is an issue for you, but it definitely was for me. You could end up with a few close to full rides at excellent schools.

A lot of law reviews hire undergrads to do some of the bitch work as "interns"

Why they can't bluebook is beyond me.

OP: I would suggest editing all that out btw