<p>I'm sorry if this has been asked a 100 times but I didn't find quite the answer I was looking for.
I'm a freshman in Baruch College and my only "extracurricular" was working 20 hours a week. I finished this year with a 3.73 GPA. Since I didn't do much my freshman year, did I ruin my chances at a T14 law school? I know everyone on here says it's only LSAT scores and GPA but I have a hard time believing that because every professor I have has drilled that internships, clubs and volunteering are just as important.</p>
<p>Your professors are, from everything I’ve seen, wrong. As proof, consult lawschoolnumbers.com and look at how consistent most T-14 schools are about admitting applicants within a certain numbers range (NYU, for instance, rejected no one within the 173 LSAT/ 3.7 GPA range, and only waitlisted two. And of those two who were waitlisted within that range, one got into Harvard and the other Columbia). Extracurriculars certainly do matter, but they seem to only play a big role when admissions officers are deciding between candidates with similar numbers, especially when those applicants are near a school’s medians. </p>
<p>Just make sure that you put your work experience on your resume- I’ve read three guides from former law school admissions officers, and they all say that having to work extensively during college mitigates, if not eliminates, a lack of extracurriculars.</p>