<p>Hey all, I'm just looking into the idea of going to law school and considering it as a career option, I'm planning to double major in management and something else, maybe justice studies. Does anybody know if you want to get into schools like Georgetown, Columbia, Stanford, and Yale what kind of stats you should be aiming for in college? What do they take into consideration? And what score range should you be aiming for on the LSAT? I'm not even sure what the maximum/minimum score is on the LSAT, so any information would be helpful :) What year in undergrad do you take it in? Oh, and does law school admission take your major of choice into account? </p>
<p>Here are the current rankings for law schools and the 25-75th for both GPA and LSAT. (Keep in mind that in the most recently released data from the schools themselves, for the Classes of 2013, most medians and 25ths went up. So these ranges, representing last year’s GPA/LSAT data, are a tad bit lower than the current data.)</p>
<p>Keep in mind that rankings do not necessarily correlate with biglaw placement (for example, Berkeley’s placement is lower than its rank would suggest because of its CA location.)</p>
<p>The typical tiers within the top 14 law schools are:
Yale Harvard Stanford
Columbia NYU Chicago
Michigan Virginia Penn Berkeley
Duke Cornell Northwestern
Georgetown</p>
<p>I’d say to have a good shot at a T-14, you need at least a 170+ and a 3.7+. If your GPA is good, like 3.9+, you can pull it off with a 168. </p>
<p>Berkeley has the lowest median LSAT out of the top 14 right now, with a 167, but it’s unique in that it emphasizes soft factors more than the other schools.</p>
<p>Major doesn’t matter, just your GPA, although the most important factor in your application is your LSAT score.</p>