Please score me for my chances at UNC Law:
LSAT 157, GPA 3.76
In state
4+ years work experience
Strong recs w/ UNC connections
White male
UNC undergrad alumnus
Family legacy at UNC
[Even odds.](http://www.lawschoolpredictor.com/wp-content/uploads/Law-School-Predictor-Full-Time-Programs.htm) A better question is, why UNC of all places? Its employment rate isn’t the [url=<a href=“http://www.lstscorereports.com/schools/unc/%5Dworst%5B/url”>http://www.lstscorereports.com/schools/unc/]worst[/url] but it’s hardly the best.
In state tuition is really affordable for law school. Do you happen to have any other schools you’d recommend for someone with my credentials? Open to suggestions.
157 is prime retake territory. Go get a 165 and your options open significantly.
If you wish to practice in the Carolinas in particular, UNC is the superb choice. The only school that outclasses it is Duke, and if you go to UNC and do well, you’d have the same job prospects in the Carolinas as a Duke graduate.
Almost nobody from HYS goes to the Carolinas upon graduation, which removes some competition for jobs.
One would think that even Raleigh-Durham-area major firms would interview at HYS, and more so at CCN… but is the wage differential between NY-Chicago-DC-LA biglaw and biglaw in the Carolinas just too big to make biglaw in the Carolinas even somewhat attractive to a HYSCCN graduate?
Stanford and Yale grads go to Durham, what???
That said, I wonder whether the collapse in the law school applicant pool is expected to continue (albeit at a slower pace)…
HYS alumni don’t head to the Carolinas after graduation, except on rare occasions, because (1) there aren’t that many natives at HYS, particularly from South Carolina, and (2) the Carolinas are viewed as places where you go once you’re married and have a family–not when you’re young and single and can head to the big city and have fun for a few years. I don’t think that the salary difference in the Carolinas vs. NYC/DC/LA/Chicago matters that much.
I believe many believe the Carolinas are backward socially and politically. I’m not making a judgment call but I’ve spoken to many who hold such beliefs on the West Coast.
I’m a UNC Law Grad. LSAT seems a little low, but GPA is good and legacy will help. My best guess is you will probably get in. I had a lower GPA than you, but a much higher LSAT. As you know, UNC is a good law school. As far as reputation though, it doesn’t carry across state lines so well. Within NC, it’s got a great reputation though. And the in-state tuition is unbeatable. So, I actually picked UNC over Duke and UVa because I was in-state also, so there was no advantage to going anywhere else as long as I planned on practicing in NC. Your application would be perfect if you could study and get a higher score on the LSAT. I took every practice test I could find and raised my score considerably. Good luck.
I agree with those who said you need to get that LSAT score up, 165 would be good.
The only answer is retake.