<p>I am currently a freshman in college striving to attend an ivy league or prestegious east coast law school (fordham, nyu, gtown blahblah)
however i got a C+ in math this semester.
Will the one C+ geopordize my chances?
I will do my best to get high LSAT scores, do internships, study abroad, and get straight As starting soph year. I also have an interesting background and several factors that allow me stand out in an applicant pool.
Just worried about that C+ from freshman yr…oh international affairs major btw.</p>
<p>Soft factors like internships or unusual background will only carry you so far and generally only matter at the margins. The name of the game is numbers, numbers, numbers. A C+ in a course will not in and of itself kill your chances at a top school. What matters is the GPA with which you eventually apply. If you excel over the next few years and land a GPA above a 3.6, then all you have to worry about then is your LSAT.</p>
<p>Yes a C+ freshman year means that you will be flipping burgers for the rest of your life.</p>
<p>I concur with Detail.</p>
<p>I waited until junior year to get my Cs. You’re getting way too far ahead of yourself, kiddo.</p>
<p>haha i just wanna make sure things go right. i didn’t do as well as i wanted to in high school, and i’m making sure i don’t screw up again this time for grad school cuz this is real business.
when’s the best time to start preparing lsats?</p>
<p>LSAT’s? You prepare before you take them. </p>
<p>Law school admissions is by the numbers. Some allowances for minority status and some for money (meaning who is a donor), some for other factors but you can figure most out by numbers.</p>
<p>Law schools admissions is mostly by the numbers - particularly if you have either terrible or outstanding numbers. If you are among the many that will fall within the “maybe” group of applicants – the folks who have solid GPAs and LSAT scores well within the range for a particular law school – then you should probably make certain that you have some outstanding activities, jobs, recommendations and other factors going for you in order to tip the scales in your favor. </p>
<p>Do you need to have decent numbers? Absolutely. Do you need to have other factors working in your favor? Most likely, you do.</p>
<p>By the way, the vast majority of students attending any given law school in any given year do not have perfect GPAs and LSAT scores – they were in the “maybe” group and were granted admission on differentiating factors other than those scores.</p>