<p>Hi everyone,
My story is that I started college in 2010 and I will graduate for sure in 2012 (this coming spring in June) with a gpa around 3.4. I haven't taken my LSATS yet but I'm going to take a a year to study for my LSATs in addition to some type of internship or work in the law field. I really really want to go to top tier law school. UPENN is my dream school. Is there any possibility of getting accepted to a top tier with my gpa being so low? </p>
<p>Also would graduating early hurt me or benefit me for law school.....</p>
<p>I would check out lawschoolnumbers.com. The truth about law school is that with a high enough lsat score gpa doesn’t even really matter that much. emphasis on that much though. You’d have to aim for 85th percentile of incoming UPENN law students. I would check out their website too</p>
<p>Graduating early will hurt you…a lot. It hurts a bit less at UPenn than at most top law schools because Penn allows students to “submatriculate” after 3 years. </p>
<p>But two years? And a 3.4? I’ve been wrong…and I don’t claim to work in a law school admissions office, but I think it would take at least a 178 to have ANY chance at a T-14, and that would be AFTER at least 2 years of work experience.</p>
<p>This assumes you aren’ t a URM and/or have some other hook you haven’t mentioned.</p>
<p>I may have overstated this…but I do think it will take a very high LSAT, though maybe not a 178, plus more than one year of work experience to have a shot at a T-14 with only two years of college and a 3.4.</p>