<p>Im starting Tulane University in the Fall, ( I am a sophmore and am transferring out of Florida State). My future goal is to go to law school, but after looking at lawschoolnumbers.com I saw that Tualne doesn’t produce many high LSAT scores … or even high GPAs and I know that not all applicants are on that website, but the amount of students attending top law schools is limited compared to other schools.</p>
<p>Should I wait until spring (stay at Florida State this semester) and try to transfer into Rice/Northwestern?
(Rice would also be more generous financial aid wise ( I am technically an orphan and they offer 100 percent need)</p>
<p>I attending a theraputic boardin school my last two years of high school that limited my college options (didn’t offer APs and overall bad academics) but I got into decent colleges due to IB program freshman and sophmore year… 3.5 high school GPA (3.8 HPA) and good SATS.</p>
<p>The thing is, the further I get away from high school (the more college classes I take) the better my transcript looks. I currently have a 3.85.
Advice is very much needed.
Thanks!</p>
<p>It’s not really a matter of Tulane ‘producing’ high LSAT scores as it is Tulane students maybe not getting high LSAT scores. If you study hard for the LSAT (it’s something you’ll have to do on your own, since colleges don’t teach you what you need to know for it) and get a good score (which is possible for you, given your high SATs), admissions committees won’t mind whether you came from Tulane, Rice, or FL State. Your GPA puts you in range for any law school, so if you keep that up and get a comprable LSAT score, you should be fine.</p>
<p>If you’re a good test-taker, as you alluded to in your post with regards to your SAT score, I would actually recommend Tulane. The school you attend won’t have nearly as much impact on your potential LSAT score as will your test-taking abilities and individual preparation, plus at Tulane you could keep that GPA high, and all the law school really cares about to begin with are your statistics. Now that I think of it, if you’re doing so well at FSU, why even bother transferring? Unless it’s for a more personal reason, and not just with an eye towards law school, you’d be better off staying there, continuing to dominate your classes, graduate with that 3.85, and put a lot of time into studying for the LSAT. If you can crack 170, with your GPA, there’s no school that’s totally out of your reach, and you’ll be a lock at a good amount of the lower T14’s.</p>