Good Grades, But Many Schools

Graduate School Law School
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<p>I’ve got a sort of colorful academic history. I came out of the Marines, and for a couple of years was really directionless and sort of bummed around on the GI-Bill. Prior to transferring to UCSD, I’ve got a few schools that I attended briefly, and more that I took distance courses from. I maintained good grades throughout–I’ll probably graduate with a cumulative ~3.85–but I’m wondering how this color would affect a law school application. The truth is that my experience as a veteran led in some ways to this lack of direction, which I’ll mention, though to be clear I gained much more from the military than I temporarily lost.</p>

<p>I also took the October LSAT in 2007 and scored a 177. At the time, I was only interested in getting a tutoring job, but since then I’ve been flirting off and on with the idea of being a lawyer.</p>

<p>Any thoughts? I know that grades are all collected together, so at least they won’t have to dig through multiple transcripts, but will this affect me poorly?</p>

<p>Thank you!</p>

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<p>You’ll be fine. It might be a mild negative, but you’re a strong enough applicant that the minor effect shouldn’t actually do anything.</p>

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<p>I don’t think having attended many schools will have a negative effect on your law school applications. Many people have similar academic records for a variety of reasons.</p>

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<p>177 is $. since you’re not a splitter, you’ll be absolutely fine.</p>

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<p>Thanks much, as I was hoping. Sounds like law school applications are a lot less subjective than the MS/PhD process.</p>