Law school chances

Parent Cafe
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<p>There’s more activity over here and I thought I could use a parent’s perspective for a reality check. </p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<ul>
<li>3.8 GPA, difficult, quantitative double major (not engineering), top school (HYPSM)</li>
<li>Fellowship to study in the UK, will earn 1-year masters degree (NOT Rhodes or Marshall)</li>
<li>URM</li>
<li>Interesting “story” and extracurriculars</li>
<li>LSAT: 167 (need to retake)</li>
</ul>

<p>I really, really want to go to Yale. What would you suggest? Is this possible? How high do you think my LSAT would need to be?</p>

<p>My long-term career goal is to be a law professor.</p>

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<p>You need to get your lsat higher. I would aim for at least 170 to have a reasonable shot from what I know of those who were admitted to Yale.</p>

<p>See:<a href=“http://www.top-law-schools.com/rankings.html[/url]”>Law School Rankings;

<p>With that said, I think you have a good chance at almost every other law school except for Harvard, Yale. You should consider places like Cornell, NYU (which is one of my favorites), Georgetown, George Washington, Vanderbilt, Columbia, Berkeley, Chicago, Northwestern, and Wash U. St Louis et al. All of these are top notch law schools.</p>

<p>Also, law schools, just like colleges, have different strengths. You should check out the specialties of each school. For example, NYU is reknown for commercial law and tax law. Vanderbilt has a strong international law program and a great criminal program. Stetson of all places is reknown for its elder law program. Check out each school and ask the dean there what are the strongest program in their respective school.</p>

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<p>You should post on the Law school forum - there are some very knowledgeable people there.
Your LSAT is low for Yale, but since you are an URM, maybe you will have a chance?..
If you are retaking LSAT, take into account that all your scores count.</p>

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<p>In the law school forum they toy around with this: <a href=“http://www.lawschoolpredictor.com/wp-content/uploads/Law-School-Predictor-Full-Time-Programs.htm[/url]”>http://www.lawschoolpredictor.com/wp-content/uploads/Law-School-Predictor-Full-Time-Programs.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>That gives you a consider. Your LSAT could afford to be higher but you might have a shot. When you remove the URM though it changes it to deny, I wonder if it really makes that big of a difference.</p>