<p>UGH!!! ANy ideas or advice about law schools? y GPA SUCKS!!!!
my GPA IS 3.3 My freshman year -all Bs and 1 c Mostly As and 1 B each term as a BC UDERGRAD
LSAT 165</p>
<p>great job with great recs from a very influential higher up in athletic dept at BC (sports law is where I want to concentrate)
I would like to apply to
BC top choice
BU
northeastern
Tulane
u Miami
two reaches in Cornell and Duke</p>
<p>what can I do next year that will give my appliaction umph as I will be applying in 09?</p>
<p>Recalculate your GPA without your freshman grades to illustrate your strong upward trend. A 165 LSAT is quite strong and will get your application serious consideration at almost all law schools, including a few top 14 law schools.</p>
<p>Major GPA is unimportant, but icy is right that the upward trend matters. I think he/she is wrong to suggest a viable T14 shot (outside of soft factors) with these numbers, but the upward trend will help mitigate the 3.3.</p>
<p>Would you ever consider retaking the LSAT? With 5-7 more point, you'd be looking at receiving scholarship money from schools on your list in addition to probably getting into a couple schools in the 7-14 range.</p>
<p>cavalier:
Don't they average the LSAT if I were to retake.
I think i could improve but thought that they average the scores.
my grades are evry good in soph, Jr and excellent in senior year.</p>
<p>will anything help as far as a job or taking courses next year after grad???</p>
<p>Schools see all scores. Many schools over the past couple years have shifted to claiming that they will use the higher score in admissions. This is probably a reasonably credible claim, although it's not as if the previous score disappears.</p>
<p>A 5-7 point improvement is definitely modest if you have just started studying; but if you have already been plateauing for a while, it's a pretty large improvement.</p>
<p>Work experience can help in some situations, if the experience is a good one. Courses after college are unlikely to matter.</p>
<p>italianice, they will see the scores, but in many cases your highest score will be taken, provided that it's a good improvement over your previous score. And like BDM said, some schools (notably Northwestern) highly value work experience, particularly in splitters. If you were to get up to a 172, for example, you could probably swing at least one of MVP, particularly if you applied early. I would be surprised if you didn't get into Northwestern or Georgetown with a 3.3 and 170+, particularly with work experience and a possible early app.</p>
<p>I would really like to attend BC Law. I am not sure if I should retake LSATs as i know my GPA is low for BC.
I am hoping to some type of job that will make a difference.</p>
<p>CAVALIER;
YOUR POINT? I am not following you.
I want to specialize in sports law as I have made some excellent contacts and love what I am doing right now.
I was leaning towards BC LAW</p>
<p>It depends on whether you think you can do better on a subsequent round of LSATs, and how much better. What was your practice pattern? Did you take it cold and get a 165? Did you start off at a 140 and study for five months to get a 165? Etc.</p>
<p>It depends. If you write your essay in all caps, probably not. But numbers-wise, as post #2 discusses, you should be easily in at Northeastern. I don't know what their philosophy is regarding scholarships.</p>
<p>Very little data on all three schools, but should be in at Georgia and South Carolina. UNC too hard to predict with an LSAT above their 75th percentile but a GPA below their 25th.</p>
<p>Is this an actual LSAT score, or a hypothetical?</p>