<p>Hope my question goes through this time. Sorry if it is a repost. Knowing that LSAT are gpa are be-all, end-all, I am curious whether a student-athlete receives any slack for a lower gpa? This particular individual has a 3.5 and a 168, spends 24 hours a week on his sport, is a team captain, does volunteer work and is at a USNWR top 25 academic institution. Hoping to go to UT-Austin, Georgetown or similarly ranked school.</p>
<p>I doubt it. Telling schools that your ECs hurt your GPA because they interfered with school work just makes it seem like you have time management problems or trouble prioritizing.</p>
<p>I’ll disagree with the above post. Being a D-1 athlete is a huge time commitment, and would be a good addendum topic for schools where your GPA is below median or 25th. </p>
<p>LSAT and GPA is a large part of the equation, but there is room for other factors to come into play. Play up the fact you managed to have a good GPA and LSAT despite your other commitments!</p>
<p>Thanks Eagle for your thoughts. I don’t want to over-rely on this, but would hope admissions would understand the commitment.</p>
<p>They will see the sport on the application, and may even look more favorably on someone’s GPA given the commitment, but I doubt an addendum that essentially says “please excuse my grades, but I was too busy with sports to study” is going to be looked upon favorably at all.</p>
<p>That goes without saying. It would never be presented as an excuse. The question was merely whether admissions might take the sport into account as a significant time commitment.</p>
<p>It would be a nice soft.</p>