Do law schools care if you went to undergrad part time?

Graduate School Law School
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<p>I work full time and can only attend my undergrad part time... will this hurt me in the admissions process?</p>

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<p>are you planning on law school full time? or part time?</p>

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<p>I’d be going to law school full time</p>

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<p>oh and I’d also only be applying to t14’s</p>

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<p>i am currently working full time and taking 15 credit hours(school in the morning and work at night) i am in a supervisor position and could make this a career if grad school doesnt work out. so i would like to know if its hurting my chances as well. the money is really good but i know school is important too.</p>

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<p>Isn’t 15 credit hours considered full time though? I was wondering if taking only two or three classes a semester would hurt…</p>

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<p>I have that same question. I go part time during the fall/spring semester and i attend summer and winter courses to graduate on time in Electrical Engineering. This has helped me have a better GPA than otherwise. How do you think law school would look at that?</p>

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<p>law schools only care about your raw numerical GPA, not how long it took you to achieve said GPA (unless it took you an inordinate amount of time to graduate college, a la Van Wilder).</p>

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<p>I don’t think that law schools would care at all if you went to college part time while working full time. In fact, particularly if you managed to do well in your college classes, some law schools might see your dedication to college while working full time as an indication of your work ethic and ability to juggle multiple tasks.</p>

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<p>Of course I agree with Sally (I think). But more concerning is post #7, which seems to imply that he is going to school part time not for financial reasons but as a GPA-protection strategy. That, I think, could be very harmful.</p>

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Generally if an applicant has a high LSAT, law schools really only care that you have a GPA to match, not where and how the applicant got it.</p>

<p>OP, if you score a 172+ you’ll probably get at least one T14 to bite this cycle.</p>

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Obviously don’t put this in your application. If law schools ask, make up a ******** reason.</p>

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<p>Generally you’re right. I suspect this might be one of the exceptions.</p>

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<p>I sincerely appreciate all the responses, but everyone here is just speculating, correct? Does anyone have any first hand knowledge–or better yet–is there an actual admissions rep here willing to respond?</p>