Reed College for Law School? How does grading system affect my chances?

Ghostt
Fri, 17 Feb 2017 01:40:32 +0000

As a more recent alum with friends in law school, I don’t get the impression that top law schools actually care about grade inflation at Reed nowadays. Berkeley might be an exception because it seems to accept a lot of Reedies. But in general I think, based on what my friends have told me, that Reedies’ best chance to get accepted to T12 law schools is to have a GPA that looks at least respectable to outsiders (~3.5), so a high LSAT (173+) can compensate for it.

I know a Reedie who was accepted to Yale Law, but their Reed GPA was above 3.9 and their LSAT score was 180, so make of that what you will. I think the days of Reedies getting into Stanford Law with a B+ average are long gone. And this is because law school has become much more competitive, not because Reed has become a worse school.

Your chances would depend on your grades to a large extent, essentially, and to get good grades you’d need to work very hard.

PhD programs are very different in that regard.