Northwestern ED with a 3.42/172 combo Forum

[Nuhopeful2017]

Hello,

To make things short I'm going to apply to NW ED this fall. My undergrad gpa is 3.42 and my lsat score is a 172. I will have three letters of rec to choose from (two professors and a practicing attorney who graduated from Northwestern 20-30 years ago).

I went to a large, well regarded public university (think UNC Chapel Hill, UT Austin, U Mich., UC Irvine etc. etc.) for my undergrad. I'm 22, have been working for 5 years or so but only at crappy service jobs until now (I'm teaching english in Asia atm). I've heard that Northwestern values real life work experience- I don't know if my teaching will help or hurt me there.

What do you think my chances of admittance are? I will be applying to other law schools rd but my first choice is far and away Northwestern ED (primarily due to the 150k scholarship, phenomenal employment stats and I've always wanted to live in Chicago). According to this website (https://officialguide.lsac.org/release/ ... alsat.aspx) I have a 30-40% chance of getting in (I haven't been able to get through to mylsn for the last day or so). Also, going off the last couple years I'm either slightly above or slightly below their gpa 25th percentile (it looks like I'm .1 below their most recently reported data going by lawschoolnumbers.com) and I'm about three points above their 75th lsat percentile.

I am not a urm.

Please feel free to ask me any more questions about my undergrad/softs/resume in general.

Thank you.

[dabigchina]

Honestly, pretty low.

I applied with more w/e, slightly higher LSAT, slightly lower GPA and didn't get it. You'll get some money, just not big money.