3.1 gpa lsat...

Graduate School Law School
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<p>Tell me what you think I should do, I'm so confused, 3.1 gpa senior trying to pull off a A average this year so will finish with about a 3.3. Lsat not taken yet and my major is in a business area. Basically I got the role screw job because all my courses where hard so it was impossible to get an a average in the other years because all my courses where predetermined by the school. ie. I had to take language courses with people majoring in language, sure you might think spanish is easy, but when you have to compete with other people whos only courses are spanish, not so easy when you also have finance and accounting classes. In addition to that our grades in the business school were belled to a c+ which is super gay when you have a class of 30-50 in all the classes. That makes your grade dependent entirely on who else is in your class. ie. in one class the class got 45 average because it was math based and mostly non asian, even though I got 49 it ended up being a B in the end. However the same class tought by the same professor in another section got a 70 average, simply because of the people in the class. More time than not I ended up in the class with all the damn nerds so my B average is not even from being lazy its just from being in a competitive program. Ie. when I take classes outside my business school the average is still a C but that is because 20% of the class gets F because they don't show up or party too much and they don't care because they can drop the course retroactively. Not possible in my business program, you fail and your out thus no one fails.</p>

<p>Anyways enough about my low gpa, what should I do to try to get into a good law school. other than high lsat, work?</p>

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<p>Good essays and/or recommendations. Especially ones that subtly explain that you are better than your gpa.</p>

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<p>Law school is also graded on a curve. You need to stop making excuses and take ownership, responsibility and accountabilty for what you did or did not do in college and stop blaming others. You will go to law school and your whole grade will be based on the final exam.</p>

<p>You would have to kill the LSAT, in order to be a splitter and you will have to find schools that are splitter friendly.</p>

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<p>You might start by learning to spell and punctuate correctly. I can’t imagine that you would pull off an A average this year if your writing is reflective of what’s in your post.</p>

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<p>What a post, OP! Seriously, though, prove that you’re not a ■■■■■.</p>

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<p>Great post! You should use your argument as the core of your essay later.</p>

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<p>…and make sure you use the phrase “super gay.” That will help enormously.</p>

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<p>Your grasp of the English language is astounding. I’m willing to bet your poor grades were more of a reflection of the fact that you spelled “taught,” “tought” than anything else.</p>

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<p>Well for the record, my average grades revolved mainly around the fact that I had small class sizes, smart peers who came in with 4.0 averages from high school, and many math based courses that were rather difficult, mainly statistic type courses. Very few of my courses actually involved much writing but the ones that did I got As in which is why I have 3.1 rather than a 2. something as I got mostly C in stat/finance courses.</p>

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<p>“Law school is also graded on a curve. You need to stop making excuses and take ownership, responsibility and accountabilty for what you did or did not do in college and stop blaming others.”
O you never been to my school, the curve is far lower and class size smaller and has 0 attrtition rate
" You will go to law school and your whole grade will be based on the final exam."
good</p>

<p>“You would have to kill the LSAT, in order to be a splitter and you will have to find schools that are splitter friendly.”
Well thanks for the advice</p>

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<p>There’s a tool called law school calculator or something. It’s not 100% accurate but you can put your GPA and your estimated LSAT score into it. It would give you a rough predication of which schools are likely to accept you.</p>

<p>Yeah I have the same problem here about the GPA. I didn’t do well in my old school but unfortunately LSAC would count all the credits and weigh average…sign…You should give it a try and see what you can get. Which law schools do you want to apply?</p>

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<p>“LOL, you do not know internet edicate dictates that one not correct punctual errors in informal speech. That is do you type perfectly on msn, most ppl don’t, really gimme a break, are you so dumb that you believe how I type in a forum is how i write in an essay, your a bafoon, ■■■■”</p>

<p>What’s even more buffoon-like is to rewrite the English language for the sake of being ‘cool’ and ‘with-it’, when it is just as easy to spell words correctly and by so doing help eliminate any possible misunderstanding.</p>

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<p>Take the LSAT and get back to us on it. Until then, no one can tell you anything about applying to law school.</p>

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<p>goback said"There’s a tool called law school calculator or something. It’s not 100% accurate but you can put your GPA and your estimated LSAT score into it. It would give you a rough predication of which schools are likely to accept you."</p>

<p>I guess my lsat to be 165. Ithink that is rather fair given I do well on standardize test- i did take an iq test and for mensa but ranked in the top 10% of test takers on first try and 5% on the second try. I don’t think I would perform above that unless I learn to read /write faster which I may consider doing a speed reading course before taking lsat, I’d imagine it would be helpful.
with a 3.1 gpa and 165 lsat the best school that considered me was Washington Missouri. Other notable consider was notre dam, bloomington, illionois and a weak consider from boston college. I also rank above 95% of acceptance at howard with this, so that might be where I go. I’d rather go to howard and finish in the top 5% than to go to notre dam and finish average. I know where average grades get you even from a good regional school, that what I have.</p>

<p>“Yeah I have the same problem here about the GPA. I didn’t do well in my old school but unfortunately LSAC would count all the credits and weigh average…sign…You should give it a try and see what you can get. Which law schools do you want to apply?”</p>

<p>Well I’m from Canada but technically a urm in both countries. I debate whether to apply to usa-more money + i would rather move their in the long term for cultural reasons- or Canada, (easier to get into law school, if I stay an extra year in school as an A average over 2 years is enough to get you into most law schools. That and there are not really law school tiers here). A first year government lawyer in Ontario gets 73k starting and 125k down the road. As well the top 5% even from the worst school break 6 figure starting salary. </p>

<p>I did some research and my “bad” grades are not a compelte miss. For 1 law school administrators told me that they focus on writing courses and consider difficulty of program.
-big plus for me because my program is regionally well reputation business school
-I did well in all my writing courses but poorly in my math courses
-basically my transcript is like this, A in all writing courses but C in all stats, science and finance courses,foreign language which I had to take against my will for the first 3 years. The good is I now choose all my courses but 1 and I am getting A only so far. So might finish with a 3.25, if i stay another year i could get a 3.47 ~=3.5.</p>

<p>I think I want to move to either chicago/nyc indifferent or alternatively /ma/ct well anywhere on the eastern shoreboard— or dc so I would look for schools in that region. I would also consider california or texas-don’t know how that hot weather would go with my asthma but nowhere can be worse for my allergies than Ontario according to my allergy doctor-ragweed-leaves me with constantly red eyes year round-even in winter. I’m not so crazy about schools that I don’t have a chance to break 100-125k because I’d be better off in Canada making 75k and living at home-no rent, free car, than in usa with rent, car, insurance, etc.</p>

<p>I think I might also get some work experience so I can get into a better school, like boston college would defintely be acceptable to me. Id’ like to break into a low top 20 like a gulc or northwestern or even southern cal.</p>

<p>Here where I plan to apply in order though or my top 5.
-dream schools
-georgetown
-northwestern
-cornell
-nyu
-virginia
More likely schools
-u of illinois
-southern cal (weak consider)
-BOSTON college
-fordham
-howard-safety college
and maybe 2-3 canadian schools
-prolly osgoode/york, windsor and maybe calgary.</p>

<p>Money is not a real big issue because I plan to save at least 100k and borrow the rest between student line of credit, bank loan. Work for 3 years and live at home so if i get a 50-60k job a year which is the average for my program then I should be ok or just work another year.</p>