Major dilemma - Is philosopy really that hard?

bluebayou
Tue, 26 Jul 2011 18:44:52 +0000

Conversely, I don’t meet alot of people who attended those same schools who had great grades but mediocre scores.



That may be, but according to the Law School forum on cc, the big three have gpa cutoffs for unhooked candidates. Anything lower than a 3.8 is extremely difficult for HYS. As a UC, Boalt is more focused on gpa than lsat.



Law school admissions officers realize that grades are highly variable and reflect a # of factors like school, the major, the course work, etc.



Perhaps, but none of those items show up in USNews’ ranking. The only gpa exception is for engineering-types. All others with a low gpa better bring a hook.

For Law School, it truly is all about the numbers. Perhaps only Yale and Stanford – two smaller programs – care much about EC’s. For Harvard, you just have to have ECs; H doesn’t care what they are as long as you have the two numbers (gpa+last).

Majoring in PL with it’s 3.4 average is not a smart play for LS.