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<p>Of course that is true. (It is also true for undergrad admissions.) But what you did not ask (or they didn’t tell you), is that they have admitted almost zero 3.6 GPAs from unhooked applicants in the last decade. The point is that HYS DOES look at your transcript, and immediately reject 99.9% of those unhooked below a 3.7. The extremely rare acceptance is a D1 athlete, a a Fulbright Scholar, a published author, etc. </p>
<p>Rankings matter to law schools, and GPA’s actually count for more ranking points than does LSAT. (Actually, LSAT counts for more points, but the LSAT used by USNews is banded – and unpublished by USNews, whereas GPA is a firm cutoff, so LS can get more bang for their buck by focusing on hard GPA numbers.)</p>
<p>For a LS to overlook two F’s, which brings down THEIR statistics, an applicant would have to offer something else VERY large to compensate.</p>
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<p>Yale is transparent with its numbers, and publishes matrix of LSAT-GPA. Look it up but don’t forget the hooked applicants.</p>
<p>Hint: last year, Yale had ~1600 apps with GPA <3.75, and YLS accepted 33 of them (2%); zero with GPA below a 3.5.</p>