<p>I go to a mediocre state school but I have very good grades. If I leave with a 3.9 GPA, an LSAT score in the 170s and a double major in Philosophy and Political Science, would I be competitive to get into somewhere like Harvard or Stanford Law? </p>
<p>Also, I am in the honors program at my school but to graduate with the designation on my diploma, I have to take a certain number of honors classes. Is this worth it? Will graduating from the honors program have any effect on my application to top law schools?</p>
<p>Thanks so much!</p>
<p>Probably yes, it will look good on your final diploma but remember that when applying, law schools will only know your grades from your first three years and the ones in the first semester of your senior year.
Being in the honors program comes useful if you take a year off after graduation.</p>
<p>Hypotheticals are stupid, because the LSAT is unpredicatable. Plenty of 3.9+ students do poorly on the LSAT. So come back when you have an LSAT score. Specifically, the honors distinction probably isn’t worth it if your set on law school.</p>
<p>So the consensus is that, all things being equal, the honors program won’t matter for admission to somewhere like Harvard or Stanford Law?? Unless I take a year off?</p>
<p>Any other opinions?</p>
<p>It won’t matter. But if you get 3.9, mid 170s, you won’t need any help.</p>
<p>Asked this same exact same question before and the consensus then was no, risking a decrease in GPA isnt worth the advantage of honors classes on law school admissions.</p>
<p>What about graduate school for a Ph.D?</p>
<p>I would like to know that too. Would it affect my acceptance to any graduate school?</p>
<p>It wouldn’t help. I do think that UG school would influence admissions at SLS, thought not at HLS.</p>