<p>Blue: all but about thirty AA applicants, nationwide, are out of T14 range. The T14 accepts AA students whose stats put them as far down as #150 in USNews. </p>
<p>The OP is in, with money, at a T14 if he an get a good LSAT score. Whatever the merits of affirmative action, that is the way it operates. My sample size, incidentally, is a heck of a lot larger than one self-reported student. </p>