Drop out of current undergrad for law school?

Graduate School Law School
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<p>I am currently a sophomore at a top 30 undergrad private school and I desperately need some advice. </p>

<p>I tried to do the pre-med track my freshman year, and it unfortunately blew up horrifically in my face. In my freshman year, I dropped 2 courses (Bio I and II), and received a C in Chemistry. This resulted in my GPA hovering around the 3.0 area, and I decided to drop pre-med and start considering law school. </p>

<p>I just finished my sophomore fall semester and while my grades haven't come out yet, I'm afraid that my semester's GPA will be around the 3.0 area again (thanks to Psych 101). I know that law schools look at mostly GPA and LSAT scores, and at this rate my GPA will only be around 3.4-3.5 or so when I graduate. I'm hoping that I'll be ok in the LSAT department...I randomly took a practice test a few months back and got in the mid-150's. (Hopefully an actual LSAT prep course will help boost that up a bit).</p>

<p>So the question is... should I stick it out at my current school that I am absolutely in love with and try to raise my GPA as much as I can, even if it will probably end up below a 3.5? (One plus about my current school is that I'm here with a full merit scholarship, thanks to SAT scores and a GPA much more impressive than my current one.) Or should I just completely start afresh and enroll at a 2-year college in hopes of raising my GPA, and then transfer to a 4-year university? I really want to get into a T14 law school, and with the probable GPA I'll get at my current school, T14 schools will probably be way out of my league, even if I do score in the 170's on the LSAT.</p>

<p>Thank you for any input, I've just been racking my brain for the past several days and needed some opinions besides my parents' (who insist that I do the dropping out and enrolling at a 2-year college method).</p>

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<p>Ok the grades you earned in this university will still count when it comes to LSADC. </p>

<p>If you want to raise your gpa you can go to community college in the summer and take extra courses that way. </p>

<p>I see no reason to transfer out of your school, its not as if you can forgo these grades and pretend it didnt happen.</p>

<p>Another BIG problem i see with your situation is that you sort of kind of want to go to law school. Grad school doesnt work this way, if you want to be an attorney you want to be an attorney, you want to study law, there is no such thing as i want to do it if get into t14 and if not i will do something else. </p>

<p>Do the best you can in the undergrad major you care about. Study for your lsat see how that goes. Then sometime during your junior year decide on the schools that work for your lsat and gpa.</p>

<p>If none of the t14s are on the list and you decide to not go to law school, then it was a bad idea to begin with.</p>

<p>You have two years and two summers to raise your grades. A 3.4 is not bad by the way........ like i said if you want to be an attorney you should not care about t14, you should just do the best and go to the best school YOU can get into.</p>