<p>There are websites that you can use to figure out your odds of acceptance of admission with a given GPA and LSAT score, Law School Predictor, and Law School Numbers.</p>
<p>For example, here is the LSN page for GW admissions this year. With a 3.0, an LSAT score of 165 or higher would give you pretty decent odds of being accepted. GW is known to be a good school for IP.<br>
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<p>Working as an engineer for a few years before applying to law school won’t have much of an impact on admissions, but could improve your ability to find a patent law job when you finish law school. Throughout my career as an engineer and engineering manager, I’ve had a lot of interaction with patent lawyers. Pretty much all of the patent lawyers that I know worked as engineer for at least a little while before going to law school. (Many of them went to law school part-time while working as an engineer.)</p>
<p>If you want to get a taste of patent law, I can suggest a book that was recommended to me by a patent lawyer, which was quite accessible for a non-lawyer engineer, “Invention Analysis and Claiming, A Patent Lawyer’s Guide” by Ronald Slusky. I found it to be helpful for training engineers to write patent disclosures for their inventions, by having a better understanding of what the patent lawyers would do to convert the patent disclosure into a patent application. </p>