Chance me for T25 and above?

Graduate School Law School
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Hey folks, these are my stats. Please let me know what I should be hoping for as far as T6, T14, and T25.

GPA: 3.2
Practice LSAT (consistent): 170

I still have another year to bring my GPA up as high as a 3.6, and I am a little fuzzy on whether I am considered a URM. I am considered to be a Pacific Islander and I am not sure how that works for law school.

Any help/ information that you can give me is appreciated!

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I think that if you can bring your GPA up and maintain that score, you would have a shot. I don’t know what constitutes a URM for law school though.

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http://mylsn.info/r/pre-law/admissions/search/

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Try GWU, and, if you work for a few years after graduation, NWU. This is a classic case of a splitter.

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Take the LSAT and return with your new information. Thanks.

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Thanks everyone. I appreciate it. My final question is this: what really constitutes a “splitter”? What about my case makes me one?

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Your LSAT score would make you a good candidate for any law school in the country; your GPA would exclude you from at least the top 5 unfortunately.

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I hear the word splitter most often in the context of law school, but, with only a change of tests, it may well describe some undergrad admissions or, most generally, any admissions context when grades and a standardized test score come into play. Thus there are two types of splitters:

  • The "traditional splitter": a student with low grades and high standardized test scores (e.g. a student whose GPA is at or below the 25th percentile but whose LSAT is at or above the 75th percentile of a given school)
  • The "reverse splitter": a student with high grades and low standardized test scores (e.g. a student whose GPA is at or above the 75th percentile but whose LSAT is at or below the 25th percentile of a given school)

Here is a partial list of T25 law schools with friendliness towards each type of splitters:

Traditional-friendly: UVA, NWU (better have some work experience though), WUSTL, GWU, Minnesota
Reverse-friendly: Boalt Hall