<p>I am currently a student at Rutgers University and my gpa is a 3.8. </p>
<p>I can finish a</p>
<p>1) double major (english and poli sci) in 3 years, and graduate with a 3.85</p>
<p>2) double major witha minor in econ in 3.5 years and graduate with a 3.87</p>
<p>3) triple major in all three fields in the regular 4 years with a 3.9.</p>
<p>I also plan to do at least 2-3 internships, and a special political science program for selected students. </p>
<p>The schools im looking at are harvard(just for the sake of applying), columbia, georgetown, cornell, nyu, uni of chicago</p>
<p>can anyone tell me the respective lsat scores i would need to get to get into these schools for each of my 3 options, and also which route is generall the best way to go?</p>
<p>also if i choose to grad in 3 years (1st option) I may get a job for a year as a paralegal, but I don't know if that will help. </p>
<p>Sorry, I know it's a lot to ask but thanks.</p>
<p>The majors and minors don't matter. The GPA differences are very slight. So the variations in LSAT are going to be similarly slight. The job for a year is likely to help only insofar as it might offset the penalty for graduating early.</p>
<p>175+ for HLS; 168+ for GULC. CCN will all be very similar, but not sure exactly what.</p>
<p>I don't think your majors matter very much. The one this is, though, my pre-law advisor cancelled one of my majors (I was French - International Studies - Linguistics) even though I could have graduated on time because she says that it could make you like indecisive on your law application, but mostly that if I wind up not studying law the workforce looks down upon triple majors. Do the research before you consider triple majoring. :)</p>
<p>I'm really piling a lot on my plate now - French and International Studies majors with minors in Russian and Linguistics - but I'm just doing it because I enjoy these subjects. Those GPA differences are very very slight so just choose the plan based on what you want to learn.</p>
<p>Of course, I've had advisors argue that I should drop my minors and maybe even a major just to ensure that I would have time for an internship/study abroad if I couldn't balance everything out. Some also tell me just to finish in three years to get my life going since I still have more education to finish, but I really want to study the subjects I've chosen because they leave doors open (I've been thinking about getting a JD/MA in International Law + French, French Linguistics, or Russian and East European Studies, in which case I would need some linguistics and Russian as an undergrad to be admitted).</p>
<p>Because it makes you look like you have absolutely no idea what you want to do and have no real area of focus. Sure, you work hard, but it makes it look like you can't make a concrete choice to stick with one thing.</p>
<p>I think triple majoring would only be a problem if the majors were unrelated (i.e. something like art, biology, and political science.), and even then I think you could spin it somehow. If you can weave a coherent narrative about why triple majoring made sense, there shouldn't be a problem. Some that come to mind are things like {Chinese, International Relations, Economics --> desire to pursue international business opportunities in Asia}, {biology, computer science, mathematics --> biomedical computation} or mine {economics, political science, mathematics --> quantitative economic policy analysis}.</p>
<p>FWIW, I was at the UChicago Law ASW a few weeks ago and happened to randomly sit next to two students at the Friday night Bar Review who were also triple majors (all very similar: mine is listed above, one of the others was {political science, business, and mathematics} and one was {political science, philosophy, and economics}). Granted, that was clearly a statistical anomaly, but at least some triple majors are reasonably successful.</p>
<p>i came to this board with thoughts of tripling majoring too. they gave me the same advice as you. i was going for a poli sci, sociology, & psychology triple. decided, instead, to only double major in poli sci & sociology, take 12 units all of my career for 4 years (i was taking 20-24 freshman year, now i'm a second year), while trying to fit in lsat studying all along the way, since lsat is more important. furthermore, i have now been investing my time in extracurriculars whereas before i didn't: such as starting the first progressive gay & bisexual frat at my school, and considering ucsd or study abroad</p>
<p>wait, why is it bad to graduate in 3.5 years? i thought that would be more impressive than graduating in 4 years.</p>
<p>so if i'm able to complete college in 3 years intead of the usual 4 then the law school won't like it? is this the same for other graduate programs, or just law?</p>
<p>That's just what the majority of people on these forums say. I don't really believe it. What I do believe is that they look down on very young applicants because of maturity issues. And since people who graduate earlier are often younger than people who graduate later, that may have something to do with early graduation often being correlated with a no-no, although the reason it is a no-no in this case is because of the age as opposed to the early graduation per se.</p>