<p>For Env, check out the course syllabus. IIRC, the school you’re going to (you posted about it way back when in the HSL section) keeps everything online. If you know your professor, google their name and check out the ratemyprofessor page. I did it for you from the name of the class, and everyone in the reviews said his classes were easy (provided it’s taught by the same guy as last year), and that it was an easy class. As long as you care, you’ll do fine (try to get an A+ for that LSAC 4.33 doe). </p>
<p>FWIW, it doesn’t look like Bio’s the only other alternative. PHYS121 Introduction to Astronomy and PHYS134 Energy for the Future look like some easy classes. I’m planning on taking Astronomy to get out of my science gen ed requirement next year. Same situation as you wrt law school and GPA protection. </p>
<p>If you can, see if your school has any place where you can find GPA distributions of different classes/different professors. There should be hard copies somewhere in administration. Easier, though, would be to find them online. My school has a website ( <a href=“http://ourumd.com”>http://ourumd.com</a> ) where we can click on the class and see the GPA distribution; check and see if you guys have anything like that. I know the student who made that website got the data from hard copies in some building on campus, so it should exist somewhere at your school. </p>
<p>On pass/fail for ls admissions, here’s some discussion on TLS:</p>
<p><a href=“Pass/fail grades on transcript Forum - Top Law Schools”>Pass/fail grades on transcript Forum - Top Law Schools;
<a href=“How Does Pass/Fail Judge by Admissions? Forum - Top Law Schools”>How Does Pass/Fail Judge by Admissions? Forum - Top Law Schools;
<p>General consensus from a few months of lurking is that HYS care, CCN kinda care, the rest of the T14 doesn’t care (so long as you have the #s). I’d suggest you either post a thread there for some more opinions or ask post in the law school section on here; Demosthenes gives some great advice on here. </p>
<p>ETA: See if you can find any people who went to your school and succeeded in law school admissions–try Reddit or some places like that. Current students and alums are a valuable resource. I posted a thread on TLS that had my school name in it (took it out two days later for anonymity) and had two different alums PM me w/ advice (both going to T6 law schools); then I had some people message me on Reddit (after posting for advice) helping me out w/ info (3 of them going to T14’s from Penn-GULC). Find alum and current students, network, and get advice on professors/classes from them; they’ll want to help you protect your GPA. Also, see what you can do to join a pre-law society or some social group like that. You’ll appreciate it for the social aspect (as a commuter) and the connections (usually they have test banks and are a wealth of information).</p>
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<p>If this is a concern, try picking up another fun course. Try not to exceed 17 credits for your first semester.</p>
<p>It might be worth it to rack up some softs in your spare time. See what you can do about joining some EC’s or getting to know some professors well (maybe start some research or express interest in doing so) so you have some good softs, including people for LOR’s. </p>
<p>Mea culpa if this is too long; I’m really, really bored w/ way too much free time. </p>