3.1 gpa lsat...

glennnat
Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:26:49 +0000

goback said"There’s a tool called law school calculator or something. It’s not 100% accurate but you can put your GPA and your estimated LSAT score into it. It would give you a rough predication of which schools are likely to accept you."

I guess my lsat to be 165. Ithink that is rather fair given I do well on standardize test- i did take an iq test and for mensa but ranked in the top 10% of test takers on first try and 5% on the second try. I don’t think I would perform above that unless I learn to read /write faster which I may consider doing a speed reading course before taking lsat, I’d imagine it would be helpful.
with a 3.1 gpa and 165 lsat the best school that considered me was Washington Missouri. Other notable consider was notre dam, bloomington, illionois and a weak consider from boston college. I also rank above 95% of acceptance at howard with this, so that might be where I go. I’d rather go to howard and finish in the top 5% than to go to notre dam and finish average. I know where average grades get you even from a good regional school, that what I have.

“Yeah I have the same problem here about the GPA. I didn’t do well in my old school but unfortunately LSAC would count all the credits and weigh average…sign…You should give it a try and see what you can get. Which law schools do you want to apply?”

Well I’m from Canada but technically a urm in both countries. I debate whether to apply to usa-more money + i would rather move their in the long term for cultural reasons- or Canada, (easier to get into law school, if I stay an extra year in school as an A average over 2 years is enough to get you into most law schools. That and there are not really law school tiers here). A first year government lawyer in Ontario gets 73k starting and 125k down the road. As well the top 5% even from the worst school break 6 figure starting salary.

I did some research and my “bad” grades are not a compelte miss. For 1 law school administrators told me that they focus on writing courses and consider difficulty of program.
-big plus for me because my program is regionally well reputation business school
-I did well in all my writing courses but poorly in my math courses
-basically my transcript is like this, A in all writing courses but C in all stats, science and finance courses,foreign language which I had to take against my will for the first 3 years. The good is I now choose all my courses but 1 and I am getting A only so far. So might finish with a 3.25, if i stay another year i could get a 3.47 ~=3.5.

I think I want to move to either chicago/nyc indifferent or alternatively /ma/ct well anywhere on the eastern shoreboard— or dc so I would look for schools in that region. I would also consider california or texas-don’t know how that hot weather would go with my asthma but nowhere can be worse for my allergies than Ontario according to my allergy doctor-ragweed-leaves me with constantly red eyes year round-even in winter. I’m not so crazy about schools that I don’t have a chance to break 100-125k because I’d be better off in Canada making 75k and living at home-no rent, free car, than in usa with rent, car, insurance, etc.

I think I might also get some work experience so I can get into a better school, like boston college would defintely be acceptable to me. Id’ like to break into a low top 20 like a gulc or northwestern or even southern cal.

Here where I plan to apply in order though or my top 5.
-dream schools
-georgetown
-northwestern
-cornell
-nyu
-virginia
More likely schools
-u of illinois
-southern cal (weak consider)
-BOSTON college
-fordham
-howard-safety college
and maybe 2-3 canadian schools
-prolly osgoode/york, windsor and maybe calgary.

Money is not a real big issue because I plan to save at least 100k and borrow the rest between student line of credit, bank loan. Work for 3 years and live at home so if i get a 50-60k job a year which is the average for my program then I should be ok or just work another year.