<p>Does anyone know how engineers fare in law school admissions? Anyone with numbers to show for it?</p>
<p>I'm a senior female electrical engineering major at a name school, with a 3.53 cumulative GPA and a 163 LSAT. Not the greatest LSAT, I know, but I'm not going to be taking it again (too late) and I don't want to take a year off. It is what it is. My transcript shows I've taken diverse courses and that my GPA has risen steadily over the semesters, so I think that's a plus. I want to get into at least Boston University (good IP law there), and Columbia would be a dream, though unrealistic. Anyway, those are my stats, if you want to comment on them, but I'm mostly interested in how LS admissions people view engineers and their numbers.</p>
<p>If your GPA was higher at least 3.75 you might have a chance at BU law. People all the time with scores 163+ can get into some schools in the top 25 as long as they have a high GPA, and amazing EC's, essays, and so on.</p>
<p>Well I was mostly wondering how law schools view engineering GPA's, since they are often curved and on a tougher grading scale in comparison to liberal arts classes.</p>
<p>they won't give as much of a bump as you might hope to grades in tougher majors (in part because they have to report their median gpas to US News, and US News doesn't account for difficulty of major in their rankings). </p>
<p>but your professor's recommendations might be a good place for this information to come out. If a professor only gives one A per semester and you got it, for example, he or she should definitely mention that. In fact, you may want to select your recommenders in part based on their ability to communicate how well you succeeded despite the difficulty of your major.</p>
<p>If you have an electrical engineering degree, you'll be an attractive candidate for corporations that hire a lot of electrical engineers, and for the law firms that do work for those corporations, regardless of where you attend law school.</p>