GPA question:

Graduate School Law School
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<p>Does a gpa 3.55 in Princeton hurt my chance of hitting top 20 law school?
How much do those law schools count on your activities, interns, leadership, etc?
Does it help to get into TOPS if I get above 170 on LSAT?</p>

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<p>Here are some statistics from Princeton's office of career services:</p>

<p>LAW SCHOOL STATISTICS - 2003-04
School # Applicants # Admitted
AMERICAN 49 25
BOSTON COLLEGE 67 22
BOSTON UNIVERSITY 48 16
COLUMBIA 181 41
DUKE 81 31
FORDHAM 76 28
GEORGETOWN 186 59
GEORGE WASHINGTON 109 42
HARVARD 152 30
NYU 146 40
NORTHWESTERN 64 24
STANFORD 122 14
TEMPLE 12 7
TULANE 21 17
UC BERKELEY 106 9
UCLA 68 20
U of CHICAGO 83 17
U of MICHIGAN 79 27
U of PENN 109 27
UVA 119 42
VANDERBILT 31 8
WILLIAM & MARY 29 15
YALE 93 10 </p>

<p>Princeton doesn't provide information on GPA or LSAT scores of accepted applicants, but here are Yale's numbers for law students starting in 2003 for the consensus top 14 (by GPA in decending order):</p>

<p>Yale: 3.83
Harvard and Stanford: 3.82
Boalt Hall: 3.75
Columbia: 3.74
NYU: 3.72
Georgetown, Chicago, and Penn: 3.66
UVA, Michigan, Duke: 3.65
Northwestern: 3.61
Cornell: 3.59</p>

<p>These are medians, so half of those admitted had lower GPAs. The median LSAT scores for Yale undergrads at these schools ranged from 172.1 for Yale to 164.4 at Cornell. </p>

<p>A 170 LSAT with a 3.55 GPA from Princeton would likely get into several of the top 20 law schools; Yale, Stanford, and Harvard would probably be out of reach, but you'd have a good shot at a solid majority of the others.</p>

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<p>---Yale: 3.83
Harvard and Stanford: 3.82
Boalt Hall: 3.75
Columbia: 3.74
NYU: 3.72
Georgetown, Chicago, and Penn: 3.66
UVA, Michigan, Duke: 3.65
Northwestern: 3.61
Cornell: 3.59</p>

<p>These are medians, so half of those admitted had lower GPAs. ----</p>

<p>So 3.59 is the median for Cornell. I thought 3.59 was the low bound and 3.71 was the high bound GPA for Cornell Law. </p>

<p>Stanford Law - 3.99/170, 3.82/170
Harvard Law - 3.93/171, 3.82/172
UChicago Law - 3.85/171, 3.66/169
Columbia Law - 3.89/172, 3.74/171
NYU Law - 3.83/171, 3.72/171
UPenn Law - 3.80/172, 3.66/168
Cornell Law - 3.71/170, 3.59/164.4
UCLA Law - 3.8/168, 3.61/168
UVA Law - 3.81/172, 3.65/168
UMichigan Law - 3.84/170, 3.64/168</p>

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<p>your GPA isnt a limiting factor since you go to a great school just destroy the LSATs and you'll get into a top 10 law school</p>

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<p>So you mean law schools give more credits to Top IVY students, even if they have lower GPA.</p>

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<p>I don't know if they do. Ivy students tend to have better LSATs, which makes it tough to tell. If you look at the Princeton admissions numbers that were posted, they probably only had 40-50 really highly qualified applicants to law schools that year.</p>

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<p>The numbers I posted were the median undergraduate GPAs of Yale College graduates who were admitted to the law schools on the list.</p>

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<p>Right. In other words, Yale undergrads get into better schools than you'd expect, based on their GPA.</p>