Major dilemma - Is philosopy really that hard?

[bluebayou]

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

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<p>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. </p>

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

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<p>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.</p>

<p>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).</p>

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