<p>Apply to t-20/t-14 schools or killself?</p>
<p>You can still apply to those schools.
However, you will have to achieve a very good LSAT score to help makeup for a GPA that is normally quite good, yet at the top schools it is somewhat normal.
Are you applying for next year or do you have a few more years?</p>
<p>Yeah, if I get close to a 3.7, it might not be exceptional at t-14's but coupled with 170-175+ LSAT I might have a chance. Not to mention that I'm going to grad school next year. I'm in my senior year right now, so between that and the one-year master's program I'm looking at, I have about a year and a half to take the LSAT and round out my resume. If I finish with say, 3.7/175/Master's, all by the age of 22, I think I'll have a good shot. Plus I have internship experience and plan on doing some stuff on the side during grad school.</p>
<p>Have you ever heard of people with, say, 3.5 GPA's getting into HYPSM?</p>
<p>You're already dead in the water for Princeton or MIT's law schools.</p>
<p>But if you're thinking about Harvard/Yale/Stanford, then the small, self-selected and statistically unreliable databases at lawschoolnumbers.com may have what you need if you're just looking for anecdotes:</p>
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<p>Yale: reports four students with less than 3.5 GPAs being accepted. Oddly, their LSAT scores range from terrible to mediocre. I think we can assume these candidates had something else in their bucket o' weapons. Roughly 30 students below 3.5 were rejected. Odds don't really seem to improve until 3.8. <a href="http://lawschoolnumbers.com/graphs.php?cycle=4&school_code=0031%5B/url%5D">http://lawschoolnumbers.com/graphs.php?cycle=4&school_code=0031</a></p>
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<p>Harvard, in a much larger pool of applicants, reports 5 students getting in with sub-3.5 GPA's. Four of them had LSATs from 171-175. I don't feel like counting the number of rejections, so we'll call it about 50. Odds don't seem to improve markedly as you move up the graph unless LSATs are 172+, at which point 3.8 seems to be the cutoff. As LSATs move higher up (175+), 3.6 starts to look better and better.</p>
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<p>Stanford does not report a single student with a sub-3.5 GPA being admitted, although four acceptees have exactly a 3.5. LSATs range from 167-174. Odds improve markedly at 3.8. Approximately 40 students appear to have been rejected below 3.5.</p>
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<p>Again -- do not try to draw any statistical calculations from this data. It represents anecdotes only, and not necessarily honest ones at that.</p>
<p>But I like browsing around the site. I found it pretty helpful.</p>
<p>3.5/170 is money in the T14.</p>
<p>I honestly dont think law school admissions officers look at a 3.64 and a 3.65 GPA and conclude that the person with the 3.65 is clearly more intelligent and studious. You're going to have a shot at it as long as youre in the ballpark. People need to stop overanalyzing admissions statistics...</p>
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<p>Lol, I hear Princeton's Law School is the best in the country, something about best department for space law. ;)</p>