<p>Chance for Harvard/Yale Law School</p>
<p>Undergrad: MIT
GPA: 4.7/5.0
Courseload: average to fairly hard, not the hardest
LSAT: 175
Major: Computer Science/Management
Extraciriculars:
President of a business club
Secretary of debate team
Model UN member
interned with various comp sci companies
done research in comp sci
travelled abroad/interned in 3 different countries
recs: good (not great)
essay: good (not great)</p>
<p>You have a shot at both, but not a good one.</p>
<p>^ Explain yourself.</p>
<p>I’m going to say in at Harvard (more numbers-based), but yeah, not a great shot at Yale (no significant softs).</p>
<p>Harvard turning down a 175 with a 4.7/5.0 CompSci degree from MIT? Hm.</p>
<p>Edit: it does concern me that he misspelled “extracurriculars” haha</p>
<p>Umm… OK… OP definitely edited his LSAT. I saw a 170. $5 says he hasn’t taken the LSAT yet and is seeing what he needs.</p>
<p>Yes, with a 175, in at HLS and maybe at YLS (YLS is almost always a maybe).</p>
<p>FH for the win.</p>
<p>PS: Based on the ECs and such, I’d have to think he’s out at YLS even with the 175.</p>
<p>Sensing a ■■■■■, but I’d say in at Harvard and crapshoot with Yale.</p>
<p>not a ■■■■■, but you’re right my LSAT is just a guesstimate from my practice tests. Bluedevilmike I’m curious, what kind of ECs do people who get into YLS usually have? where can I find profiles of people admitted to YLS?</p>
<p>I win $5. Someone cough it up.</p>
<p>^ Nice call. Still in the Sherlock Holmes mood?
Other than lawschoolnumbers.com I don’t know of profiles on an individual level, but there is this:
[Yale</a> Law School](<a href=“http://www.law.yale.edu/admissions/profile.htm]Yale”>Profiles & Statistics | Yale Law School)</p>
<p>You know, TLS prepares you for this stuff. And I also think this place has a higher occurrence of such posters because it is, after all, a place devoted to college applicants, not law school ones. I think we should have a thread stickied, a thread that provides the near universal advice for people who haven’t graduated and who haven’t taken the LSAT yet.</p>
<p>My small group of 12 students – it’s not like I’m cherry picking the elite kids from the entire class – had:</p>
<p>–A Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica for two years
–A former US Army paratrooper
–A competitive (e.g. synchronized) skydiver
–One PhD in English (Oxford), also fluent in Russian and expert on Russian literature
–One PhD candidate in neuroscience (Oxford)
–An MD candidate
–Former employee in Baltimore Public Defender; was shot at on multiple occasions while trying to interview witnesses and deliver subpoenas
–An education analyst whose expertise on NCAA athletics is routinely cited in ESPN
–A Guatemalan national who spent two years providing news to Capitol Hill</p>
<p>(I don’t know much about the other three because we don’t sit around and compare resumes; I suspect that they’re similar.)</p>
<p>If you’ll permit a little cherry picking, the class as a whole also has:
–Former World Series of Poker Champion
–Published authors on the financial crisis
–A full-fledged physician (who holds down a job in the Yale Hospital)
–A Chinese yo-yo expert
–The entrepreneur who provides media outlets with information on the mortgage meltdown</p>
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<p>Haha I know that person.</p>
<p>Wait, I actually know a lot of people in y’all’s class. That’s maybe a good reason to come up to Reblaw 2010… other than the fact that it’s Reblaw;)</p>
<p>Let me know if you want to hang out – when is RebLaw?</p>
<p>Thanks! Will do.</p>
<p>RebLaw Info: [Reblaw</a> 2010 - Home](<a href=“http://islandia.law.yale.edu/reblaw/]Reblaw”>http://islandia.law.yale.edu/reblaw/)</p>
<p>So is this the big revealing of alma maters; did each of you attend YLS? (I assume on his past posts that BDM is a 1L or 2L student?)</p>
<p>Nope. I go to Columbia/NYU Law. I know YLS 2Ls from college, from networking over the summer, and from my summer job.</p>
<p>Yeah I had remembered seeing somewhere you were from the city, but I got a bit confused at reading this. I hadn’t realized the thing you spoke of was for attorneys/law school students in general, not just YLS grads.</p>
<p>Sorry but also just wondering, why do you say Columbia/NYU law? They’re independent law schools, aren’t they…?</p>