Chances on going to law school

HappyAlumnus
Mon, 03 Apr 2017 01:11:29 +0000

You’d probably be USC Columbia’s only applicant with a 174 LSAT, so I’d think that you would have a strong shot at admissions. If you’re #1 in your class there–which you could be, based on your clearly high IQ, you would do just fine getting a good job after law school.

However, getting good grades isn’t 100% about maturity; I got nearly all As in college but was extremely immature; it’s also about study skills and developing your own method to getting all As. It took me a whole year in college to get my own method down, since I had totally goofed off in high school, so I’d also recommend doing a master’s or some kind of coursework (even, say, a Harvard Extension School degree, which you can do remotely) before law school just to figure out how to study.

If I were you, and if you’re focused on school pedigrees like many of us are, I’d also plan on doing a JD and then getting an LLM from a top-tier law school. You’re clearly smart–and smarter than I am–and you should have a blue-chip school by your name, which counts in the pedigree-focused world of big law firms, just so people realize how smart you are.