Chance me: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, UPenn, Columbia, NYU, Chicago. Other top schools?

Graduate School Law School
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I am currently an Undergraduate Economics major at UMass Amherst. I will be graduating a year early (next year) due to AP credits, but I am enrolled in an accelerated masters in Public Policy program, so I will be at UMass for an additional year to get my masters after (4 years total between undergrad and grad). I currently have a 3.9 GPA, and am looking to potentially raise it to around a 3.93 by the time I graduate. For the time being, I am going to assume that I will perform well on the LSAT (I’m particularly strong in logic based thinking- having done extremely well in courses like Game Theory).

In the way of my resume, I am a bit lacking. I held a tutoring job this past year (two semesters), but left the job at the end of the year due to limited hours. I am not involved in any clubs, but I am a founding father and secretary of a fraternity on campus. I also work at the dining hall serving food and scrubbing dishes since last semester, and plan to continue there next year. I was also on the winning team of the Undergraduate Economics Club Debate this past year (although I am not in the club), and was named the recipient of two scholarships for academic excellence in Economics (both were awarded by committees, I didn’t apply for them).

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Law schools care about GPA and LSAT and not any of that other stuff (except Yale). Your GPA is good but you don’t have an LSAT score, so there’s no way to chance you.

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And Stanford. (With a small class, they can be picky, too.)

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You’ll need a high LSAT score and it would be best if you do some activities that show you following a life passion that will sync with your law degree. For example, if you want to use your law degree to save starving children, you should be volunteering at a children’s rights organization or group. As this week’s New York Times showed, the top law schools are doing just fine, as are their students and top graduates of other good schools, and so you shouldn’t rely on a top GPA and a top LSAT score alone.