<p>....I've always thought law school was all about nmers GPA+LSAT. Am I right, or will numbers alone not be enough for top 10 law?</p>
<p>The general consensus seems to be that if you have the right numbers, you can get into almost any school, with the possible exception of Yale.</p>
<p>Of course, if you don’t have the right numbers, then other factors like work experience or extracurriculars are essential.</p>
<p>Well, you have to not-botch the rest of the process. You have to write decent essays, have a tolerable phone interview for Harvard, and do SOME EC’s.</p>
<p>Fortunately as of 2009, law schools are still mostly all about numbers. I can’t imagine what it would be like to apply 20 years from now.</p>
<p>Obviously you shouldn’t neglect the other parts of your application, but unlike certain UG admissions now, you don’t need any special softs to get into law school.</p>
<p>You may not need any special softs to get into law school, but they sure do help if you find yourself in the vast pool of applicants whose LSAT scores and grades put them in the running for the small number of coveted spots in the first year class.</p>
<p>most schools are really just number whores so as long as you are in the 170s and 3.8-3.9 range you are guaranteed into at least one T10 school.</p>
<p>The exceptions would be Yale, Berkeley, and possibly Stanford as they tend to reject 180 LSATs and 3.9 GPA… but schools like Harvard, NYU, Chicago, Penn, etc. are number whores</p>