How do you get into top 10 law school?

Graduate School Law School
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<p>Is it just getting a 170+ and 3.7+ and hoping for the best or is there something more they look for? Internships/work experience? Leadership/extracurriculars like undergrad schools or does that not factor in? What else?</p>

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<p>170, and 3.7 is arguably the baseline, while everything else lets you compete against others with the same scores.</p>

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<p>Law schools care mostly about your LSAT score and your GPA.</p>

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<p>Phenomenal GPA, LSAT score and an avid involvement in community and school affairs (student government, social affairs, etc.).
It is a simple commitment to a well above average college existence, at a time when most of your peers are not engaged in such.</p>

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<p>Vegas, law schools don’t really care about your extracurricular activities unless you’ve done something really spectacular or you have absolutely nothing to put on your resume. </p>

<p>You also don’t really need a phenomenal GPA for most of the top 10 schools except HYS. A high LSAT score can outweigh a mediocre GPA. By mediocre, I mean 3.5ish, which I guess isn’t really mediocre by normal standards.</p>

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<p>Okay… that wasn’t contradictory.</p>

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<p>does your undergrad institution matter?
because im deciding between mcgill (20k/yr) and Georgetown or Notre Dame (>50k/yr)
and i aspire to get into a top law school in the future</p>

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<p>There are so many threads on this… The consensus is generally no, it does not matter to a great extent, certainly not between the choices you outlined.</p>