gpa, lsat & major question

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hello, I am a senior at Santa Clara University. I started out in finance, when I wasn't thinking, and switched to political science during my sophomore year. I did really bad freshman year and when I was a finance major....I also got a D in a calculus class, where I was unaware that you could withdraw and I guess I bombed the final. I had a hard time adjusting to college and I'm not good at numbers!</p>

<p>So I moved on over to political science. I have done much better. </p>

<p>My GPA when I was in finance was like a 2.5, now (after this quarter), it'll be a 3.15 or so. I also graduate in December, so I have summer school classes & fall quarter classes...and I think I'll be able to do good in those. I hope to graduate with a 3.3-3.4. </p>

<p>But I have good outside activities:</p>

<p>1) volunteer for a low-income school
2) internship with my congressman in DC for a quarter
3) internship/marketer with the La Jolla chamber of commerce
4) write editorials for the school newspaper
5) I'm in the honors political science program & I can get GREAT letters of recommendations from two professors, including one who invited me & he runs the program</p>

<p>So will a high LSAT compensate for a low gpa & will they look at my low grades in the context of my major that I'm no longer doing and that my grades have gone up?</p>

<p>Any other suggestions?</p>

<p>I'm not looking to to go to a top-tier law school, like Harvard or Yale. I'm thinking more along the lines of Tulane, USF and well, I haven't thought about others. I, of course, want it to be a good school and the best that I can get into. Ideally, I would like to stay in California & I've lived here all my life and I just love it. Although it would be good for me to see other parts of the country.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>any thoughts?</p>

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<p>Do you have to graduate in Dec? Can you stay another semester to further bring up your GPA? maybe take some philosophy courses…like Deductive Logic and Critical Thinking to help with thinking skills for LSAT?</p>

<p>How will you be paying for law school?</p>

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<p>I don’t know that I “have” to graduate in December. Although I’m going to look into that more specifically, I’m not really sure. </p>

<p>As for paying for law school, not too sure. But I don’t think money is going to be an issue…as in I won’t be taking out loans. </p>

<p>So do schools look at my grade trends/major…that kind of thing?</p>