Concerns About Being A CC Student, CS Major

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<p>I'm aware of the fact that if a community college student transferred to a 4 year school that they should wait a minimum of a year to apply to law school after graduation. This is done to show the adcoms your finalized GPA and academic record of all undergraduate terms, especially the terms from the four-year school. I understand all of this.</p>

<p>However, I am growing quite concerned that as a CC student and a CS major, even the two last years of my undergraduate will not be enough information (along with my LSAT score, of course) to make me a competitive applicant for law school. What's even worse is that students from my major typically have lower GPAs due to the difficulty of the curriculum. I'm not even going to gamble on the fact that law school admissions take in account the difficulty of CS, so I've conservatively proposed that I should not have less than 3.5 GPA as a CS major. This will have to be compensated with an outstanding LSAT score of no less than 172.</p>

<p>As a result of my 'dilemma', I have decided to 'pad' my GPA by doing a minor in Business Administration. By the time I matriculate from CC, I will only have 12 hours to fulfill that minor which can easily be accomplished from a combination of regular semester elective credit hours and summer school. If my GPA has not reached my satisfaction, then I have no option but to fulfill a major in Business Administration in Finance or General Business to boost my GPA. The courses are probably not as 'intensive' as CS courses, but not so trivial as to make adcoms question why I took them.</p>

<p>However, it looks as though I'm not going to be able to leave Texas to attend law school, so the best option for me would be to attend Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. It's a first tier school with a very strong, influential (yet Dallas-centric) alumni network.</p>

<p>The focus is to do well as a CS undergraduate to gain good employment and be a competitive applicant to law school. What am I missing?</p>

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<p>FWIW, you don't need to wait until after graduating from undergrad to apply to law school. I attended a CC for two years, transferred to a university, did quite a bit worse (also due to a difficult major - math) but did well enough on the LSAT to offset it. Just saying that it's not a rule that one must follow - if you feel comfortable with your stats overall, apply senior year. </p>

<p>And if you're a Texas resident then a good GPA (3.7/3.8) coupled with a 167 or so should give you a good shot at UT.</p>

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<p>^I understand.</p>

<p>But even with a great GPA and LSAT score, I would still have some concerns about how adcoms would look at my application. Mind you, they would only be looking at two semesters (not including summer school work) of academic performance.</p>

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<p>I am a freshmen at alabama a and m university and looking for a school to go to that has a good criminal program. My major is sociology adm a minor in criminal justice because the school doesn't have criminal justice as a major and I wanted to minor in pre-law. Do anybody know of good school that has real good programs or anything. I need more inforamtion please.</p>

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But even with a great GPA and LSAT score, I would still have some concerns about how adcoms would look at my application. Mind you, they would only be looking at two semesters (not including summer school work) of academic performance.

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<p>You will be evaluated based on CC academic work as well, so you'll actually have 6 semesters. Either way, I'm just saying that I too was evaluated with only two semesters of work in a university setting and did just fine. That doesn't mean everyone can or should do that, but if you feel comfortable (if you have good enough numbers) you shouldn't hesitate to go ahead and apply rather than waiting a whole year.</p>