I know, I know... another "do you think I can make it"

[april_uta]

<p>Hi I am a junior at the University of Texas-Arlington and I will be graduating next year with my political science and history degrees. I made a 165 on my LSAT’s and I have a 3.67 UGPA. What do you think my chances would be at:</p>

<p>University of Connecticut
University of Colorado
University of Utah
University of Maryland
University of Minnesota
University of Texas
University of Houston</p>

<p>all those for law schools. Thanks!</p>

[ariesathena]

<p>Random, random question: WHY are you applying to mostly state universities, for which you are obviously out-of-state on most of them?</p>

<p>Your chances are good for Texas, being state (I think, right?). For UConn, you have decent chances, but you’re third on the list: they take CT residents first, and then preference for New Englanders who don’t have an in-state law school. </p>

<p>Maryland you should have a good chance at; if you find their website, they do have an LSAT/GPA grid which you can use to find out how many people with your stats applied and were accepted last application cycle.</p>

<p>So my random advice: look beyond state schools. You are certainly in the running for all of them statistically, but you’ll have to pay out-of-state tuition at most of them (at least for the first year). UConn will let you get residency if you change your vehicle registration & license over to CT - and that only takes a year. Not sure how the others work… and you might end up paying for two years of out-of-state tuition, simply because you’ll just miss the 1-year cutoff when you start your 2L year. You might not be able to claim residency if your parents are helping out with tuition.</p>

<p>Beyond that, there is a HUGE relationship between location of the law school and where graduates tend to get jobs. Focus your search on where you want to work. You’ll have a much easier time getting a job in Texas coming out of schools like UTexas, Houston, Emory, Duke, Washington and Lee, and UVA than you would from Utah, Maryland, Minnesota, and UConn.</p>

<p>Sorry that I cannot help more with your actual question… most of the schools I looked at were on the East coast.</p>

[nspeds]

<p>This might be relevant to the discussion:</p>

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Univ of Texas Law School to Nearly Double Non-Resident Admits</p>

<p>This will mostly be of interest to law school applicants for next year: For many years, my institution, the University of Texas School of Law, had an 80% in-state residency requirement on admissions (so only 20% of the class consisted of non-residents). Fortunately, Texas is a very big state (only California is bigger), and the pool has been quite strong. But because of the relatively high in-state residency requirement, we have had to turn away many highly qualified non-resident applicants each year. Starting next year, however, Texas will be able to admit up to 35% of the class from out-of-state. Given that even non-resident tuition at UT is well below tuition at our competitors (both private schools like Penn and Georgetown, and public schools like Boalt and Virginia), this is likely to be of special interest to many non-resident applicants next year.</p>

<p>UPDATE: A word of clarification, since several readers have e-mailed with questions about this: the change in the law will permit 35% of the matriculated class to be non-residents, as compared to 20% now. The percentage of non-residents and residents offered admission may be different (since the yield is always higher on resident admits, my guess [I am not involved in admissions] would be that far, far fewer than 65% of resident applicants will be offered admission in the future, just as, I would guess, far, far fewer than 80% of resident applicants are now offered admission).

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<p><a href=“http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2005/06/texas_law_to_ne.html[/url]”>http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2005/06/texas_law_to_ne.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[april_uta]

<p>I’m sorry, I forgot to mention University of Michigan on my list as well. I go to undergrad in Texas but am not very keen on actually living here. All of the states I’ve mentioned are states where I wouldn’t mind living in the long run.</p>

[mw05]

<p>You are right around the average for the University of Minnesota. (160-165 LSAT, 3.66 GPA.) I don’t know how the out-of-state thing will affect you. Minnesota is better than all the other law schools you listed, with the obvious exception of Michigan. Actually, Texas is probably pretty comprable. But I would say Minnesota as a state would by far offer the best quality of life out of all of those places you listed.</p>

[swgrad]

<p>i think you will likely get waitlisted at TX-Austin. Your GPA is good, your LSAT is not super competitive…TX has become increasingly difficult to get into…</p>