<p>Hello people,</p>
<p>I made the mistake of majoring in mathematics at Princeton and graduated with a 3.3 GPA. With an LSAT score of 176, what kind of law school can I expect to get into? Is it really not considered at all that I took the hardest major possible, when any idiot can get a 4.0 in polisci/psychology/english/whatever idiot major lawyers usually like?</p>
<p>Your LSAT score and your undergrad school/major will counteract your GPA at many schools, even potentially the very best. However, those schools are very selective so it's hard to guess which ones would take you. My prediction is that if you applied to 5-10 of the top 14 schools, you'd get into at least one. </p>
<p>I thought you were applying to poli sci PhD programs though?</p>
<p>Thanks for your reply Stacy. I am applying to PhD programs as well, and some joint PhD/JD programs which require a separate application to the law school. Big pain in the ass I know.</p>
<p>"when any idiot can get a 4.0 in polisci/psychology/english/whatever idiot major lawyers usually like?"</p>
<p>Wow, bitter much? I'm shedding a tear for how hard your life is.</p>
<p>To answer your question, because the LSAT outweighs the GPA in importance, you probably have a shot at T-14 schools, though I would count HYS out.</p>
<p>You should definitely get into a t14 school. Apply to the ones you would go to, and see what you get.</p>
<p>You can forget Yale, Stanford, and Boalt. (GPA is top priority)
Your chances are good elsewhere though.</p>
<p>I would be surprised if you didn't get in Georgetown.
If you have work experience, you are in Northwestern.
Cornell, Penn, Michigan, UVA, and Duke are also fairly likely.
Columbia, Chicago, NYU... less likely but probable.
Harvard... maybe, that is if majoring in Math at Princeton truly is very difficult.
Otherwise, they will still write you off as a smart but lazy applicant and reject you.</p>
<p>Curious, congrats on your score. Mind I ask how you studied-prepared, how long, and if you took a prep course? What did you do the morning of?</p>
<p>The 4.0 comment was bitter and uncalled for. GPA will keep you out of HYS + Berkeley, but you do have a very good chance almost everywhere else. Even Columbia often permits lower GPA if the LSAT is high enough.</p>
<p>I just don't understand why 4 years of hard work doesn't count as much as one 3.5 hour test.</p>
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I just don't understand why 4 years of hard work doesn't count as much as one 3.5 hour test.
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Because many undergraduate majors test very weakly for IQ, but the LSAT tests very strongly for IQ.</p>
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You can forget Yale, Stanford, and Boalt. (GPA is top priority)
Your chances are good elsewhere though.
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I agree, but I think it will be hard to get into Harvard as well. The adcomms would have to be weighing his major/school quite heavily (and I think they should).</p>