Our DS went straight from undergrad to law school. He was admitted to 12 law schools including several of the T14. He was wait listed at Northwestern and was pretty much told that their preference was for work experience between graduation and law school entry. His stats were 169 and approx 3.5 GPA. He was admitted to Michigan, Penn, Duke, and Georgetown. His only other denial was U Chicago. He was initially wait listed at a couple of those schools but has excellent interviewing skills and three summers of law clerk (gopher and researcher) experience and was able to interview and gain admission at all three. He just completed his OCI and came away with nine big law (Vault 30) summer associate offers out of 14 callbacks. Again, his interviewing abilities and experience paid off. While I understand your desire to move ahead and not wait a year for LS, Happy Alumnus’ advice is sound, particularly if you want HYS…