<p>What are my chances at higher schools if i have a 3.25 GPA in Nuclear Engineering at University of ILlinois (#5 in engineering) and a 175 LSAT?</p>
<p>dude, do you have 175 LSAT or is it just your hopeful score. If you have 175 you got nothing to worry about. you won’t likely to crack a top 6 law school, but you will get into most of lower T-14 for sure</p>
<p>I got a 175. I’d be thrilled to get into something like Northwestern, Michigan or UPenn, but I have a feeling i’m going to be something more like UCLA or Vandy with those scores. Do they put any consideration into your undergrad major?</p>
<p>1) they don’t care about your major, and won’t give you much slack despite having gone through a difficult major like your case (which sucks and is unfair, I admit)</p>
<p>2) HOWEVER, you will get a HUGE boost when you try to get law firm jobs at law school. Law firms are in big need of IP lawyers and having undergraduate engineering background is required to break into that field. Trust me, you will be MUCH, MUCH better off at law school than other kids who majored in useless crap like Political Science or Gender Studies at college.</p>
<p>3) With your stats, Northwestern, UVA, Michigan, Georgetown, and Cornell are very realistic possibilities. Apply ED to UVA (they love people who apply ED), and my guess is that you have 80%+ chance of getting in. </p>
<p>4) For Northwestern, since they require a couple of years of work experience, just get some work experience for a year and apply ED. I am almost 100% sure that you will get into Northwestern if you DO have work experience of 1-2 years before applying. But, then again, I think you will get into University of Virginia straight out of college if you apply ED anyway, so you may not even need to do this.</p>
<p>5) If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Congrats on your awesome LSAT scores. You did very well!</p>
<p>agree with the above poster. I did read in several places that engineering is the only major that is given slack in applying to law school (a 0.25 GPA “boost” is added when comparing you to applicants with stupid majors like poli sci or socio). You should be safe at one of the t14, and if you want to aim even higher you could take a year and take some random classes at a CC for extra GPA credit</p>
<p>@Shikai, there is no .25 boost added for engineering students, no idea where you’re getting that from. </p>
<p>LazyKid has the correct answer for this thread.</p>
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<p>You should verify if this would boost your lsac gpa or not. I think it is calculated using only grades you received prior to getting your first bachelors degree. If you take CC classes after earning your degree I don’t know if they would get counted in your lsac gpa (which is the only one that counts).</p>
<p>An LSAT score like that will give admissions officials a reason to look more sympathetically on your major - presumably a tough one, with a respectable GPA. It won’t happen at every school, but it will likely happen anywhere with a more holistic admissions process. And there’s no number attached, but difficulty of curriculum does make a difference to many of us when evaluating applications. If you have a reference letter from someone who describes the difficulty of the program and/or the relative strength of your gpa in that program, all the better.</p>