<p>My college experience got off to a rather bad start- 5 classes taken and all of them failed. Since then, I've shaped up to a significant extent and in the past 3 years I've gotten an A in all but one of my classes (twas a C+). I've retaken all of the classes I failed as well, save for one, which has not been offered since, which makes my school-issused a 3.85, but obviously my LSAC GPA is not very impressive. LSAT is 172. Basically I'm wondering how I'll be regarded given the situation.</p>
<p>Congrats for bouncing back and turning things around. You probably should write an addendum if there was a reason for your bad first year. The challenge is that you will be a splitter. Those outcomes are hard to predict. You should apply broadly and really early in the cycle as some schools will appreciate the 172.</p>