<p>I know that during undergraduate application process schools wanted a lot of good extra-curricular stuff. I hear the law schools only care about LSAT and GPA. I'm a double major with a current GPA of a bit under 3.95. I haven't taken the LSAT yet but plan on preparing heavily for it. My ECs are great (internship, volunteer, school clubs etc) but not anything jaw-dropping (i.e. national, international). Will the lack of look-at-me ECs hurt me or will they not care?</p>
<p>I don’t think they would care too much. As you mentioned, your ECs are decent, your GPA is excellent, and if you can get above a 170 on the LSAT, you stand a strong chance at the vast majority of the Top 14 law schools.</p>
<p>I think your GPA + LSAT are much more important to law schools admissions. Your ECs aren’t bad, excellent EC’s might help someone whose more borderline but I think Law School admissions is more of a numbers game. Honestly if you can score in the 160+ range and keep your GPA as it is I don’t think they’ll care about your ECs at all, many schools will admit you just based on your numbers.</p>
<p>It’s fine as long as you have some ECs. Law schools don’t care about ECs unless you are a borderline candidate because it is hard to evaluate ECs. A lot of club presidents don’t do anything other than sending a few emails, and a lot of clubs give each of its members some sort of title. Great ECs (the ones that actually helps) are limited to Rhodes, Marshall, Fulbright (to a less extent), military service, best selling books, etc.</p>
<p>I was looking at lawschoolnumbers website and some people with a 3.9 or above and 170 or above got rejected from Top 10 law schools so I was just wondering why this would happen if it’s mostly a numbers game. </p>
<p>And financial aid is only given based on merit, not need, right?</p>