the good old law school admissions question

Graduate School Law School
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<p>So I’m going into my 3 year at Concordia university in Montreal, quebec studying urban planning, and I’m in the specialization program. My first year grades were a 3.0, but that was only one semester because i started in january, my second year grades were 2.7, my current year suffered alot and it’s going to be in a the 2.0 range due to my fiance having a seirous drug problem, technically because of my weird starting point i have two full years left, at which i’m assuming i’ll be getting a 3.5 . . . i have no more classes i do poorly in left, so assuming i get a final graduation average of between 3.0-3.3 what are my chances of getting into law school? I have already started taking the LSAT’s (prep ones of course) in the library, timed, trying to make it as cose to the real thing as possible. I am planning to heavily depend on an excellent score. </p>

<p>my current scores have been the first time i took it a 158, the second a 168, and the third, which was monday night, a 165. </p>

<p>so hypothetically, with a 165 give or take 5 points score and a 3.0 gpa where is a good place to start looking? I don’t care about making massive amounts of money, in fact i plan on going into housing law, or something like that. </p>

<p>Secondly, is it possible to go somewhere like st. thomas, which is very easy to get into, get streight A’s, and transfer to a much higher ranked school? Or is that a pipe dream?</p>

<p>just curious, I also will have experience as a student advocate starting in september at my school and have been working fulltime during the duration of my studies.</p>

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<p>If you could actually manage a 165, you would be able to do much better than St. Thomas. Assuming that you’ll do well enough to transfer to a much better school is always a bad idea. In any event, it’s tough to say where you’d have a shot without an actual LSAT score or your final GPA. You should also think about where you want to practice. That’s probably going to dictate where you wind up applying.</p>

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<p>Apply in the region you want to apply. 3.0 and 165? lower T1, upper T2.</p>

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<p>T1 might be tough with a 3.0 and 165. But it’s all speculative until you have a real LSAT and a real gpa, as you know. Once you have more definitive stats, you might want to go to the lsac site and do a search by gpa and lsat score. It will give you a rough idea of where you might want to apply. Just keep in mind that certain schools do not appear at all on that page (e.g., Cornell).</p>