<p>Hi everyone -
I'm 22, female, and moved very recently to Nevada for vacation (family lives here) but it looks like I'm staying here.</p>
<p>I graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle with a BA in Communication/Political Science in December 2013. Since then I accepted a Sales position (B2B Sales but my position was called Sales Rep) for a Seattle startup. I interned with them before (3 months) during my last quarter at the UW, then stayed with the company until April 2014. I always wanted to be self-employed and I felt like I lost direction of what I really wanted to do so I quit. I thought about pursuing Nursing because I've been interested in health care for a long time now, took a CNA class, took prereq's and I was ultimately thinking about becoming a Nurse Practitioner (again: I want to be self-employed). </p>
<p>My undergrad GPA was around a 3.3 but with my Nursing prereq's it's now probably at least a 3.4/3.5. I took the LSAT in October 2012 and I scored a 144 but I did not really study a lot, to be completely honest. Other more important things than the LSAT got in the way.</p>
<p>I moved from Seattle to Nevada because of a relationship pretty much - I realized soon though that I would not be able to pursue Nursing in Nevada (semester system/couldn't get into prereq's/prereq's take longer to complete etc) and I've been successful in Sales. I am now pursuing real estate but I want to be independent later on and I do want to get a JD now since I think it would be beneficial for what I'm planning to do with my career and future.</p>
<p>Questions: does UNLV care about my past? Do they care that I have some work experience after college? Would they want to know why I pursued Nursing then decided to switch careers - if so how could I explain that professionally? </p>
<p>And please let me know guys - my LSAT was 144 and my GPA now should be around 3.4 - what are my chances to get admitted into UNLV Law? Or should I retake the LSAT?</p>
<p>I forgot to add - I’m an immigrant. I’m now a citizen but I moved to the US when I was 17 and my family received a Green Card. I’m European and bilingual so maybe that will count for something? </p>
<p>Your GPA is only calculated until you got your first BA. Anything after that doesn’t count. In any event, you should only go to law school if you want to be a lawyer. Nothing in what you’ve said indicates to me that you want to practice law. </p>
<p>Retake the LSAT; if you can manage to get a 160+ try not only UNLV but UWI (that is, Wisconsin), Wisconsin is well-grounded in terms of real estate law.</p>
<p>UNLV has stats on its website and you are unfortunately below the median for both GPA and LSAT score. I’d recommend assessing why you want to go to law school, because you’ll need a considerable bump in LSAT to get in(unless you have some hook that will get you considerable consideration).
Notwithstanding the advice given about, do not attend UWisconsin law school-unless you move to Wisconsin. First, it’s not more “well-grounded” in real estate law than any other law school in the US. Second, as a Nevada resident, your tuition at UNLV would be much much cheaper than OOS tuition at Wisconsin.
But it all begins with you deciding you really want to be a lawyer.</p>
<p>The only way UNLV even begins to make sense is if you are totally committed to staying in Vegas, get an LSAT score high enough that they give you full tuition, really want to be a lawyer, and have no better career prospects. </p>