<p>Good gpa
Ecs
LSAT
what else?
Also how does one prepare for a top law school?</p>
<p>I did nothing.</p>
<p>I heard taking philosophy classes can help with the LSATs since it teaches you take logically. Math and engineering courses don’t hurt either. I’ve also heard that you should avoid taking pre-law majors that require you take law classes in undergrad since they don’t really prepare you well enough and you might not find them interesting.</p>
<p>I have a few questions. My freshman year was one giant blemish on my college career. At the end of freshman year i had a 2.0 cum gpa. I am a junior now and my cumulative is 3.2. By the end of senior year i should have it at a 3.4 or 3.5. But during freshman year, I was in an academic dishonesty case. I am an international student and was unfamiliar with citing. I made a mis-citation and recieved an F on the assignment though I got a C on the course. I was put on warning and nothing else happened. While I know this has to go on my law school app, does it mean I can never get into a decent law school? Will they discard my application based on it? And will a stellar performance on the LSAT help? I take it Feb 2011 since I will be taking 2-3 years off after UG to work. I know it was careless and stupid but it was an honest mistake as is evident from the fact that even my school did not fail me on the course and they are usually strict about these things. But is there anyway I can strengthen my app and still be a good candidate to a decent law school? I have decent softs and have been working since sophomore year in the Alumni Outreach Office and in the Bio department with a professor.</p>
<p>the schools u apply to for law school have no way of knowing what happened to you freshman year, maybe retake the course that you got an F in.</p>
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<p>I would consider auditing some law school classes and practicing on an old exam or two. If you can start at a top law school without being bewildered like your classmates, it’s a big advantage IMHO.</p>
<p>Also, I would consider interning or working part time in a law office. You may as well start making connections now as well as learning what it’s actually like to practice law. Who knows? Maybe you will realize that law school is not for you.</p>
<p>thanks for posting a reply.
i can’t retake the course cos i didn’t fail the course. i got a C in the course and you need lower than a D to retake it. and i got an F on the assignment cos it was mis-citation and not out and out plagiarism. but it’s still there on my file. my transcripts are fine, but the application apparently asks you if you were involved in any case of academic dishonesty. i can work my ass off and make my lsat stellar, and i have good softs and volunteer things etc. i also know profs who’ll give me great recommendations. i’m worried that they’ll throw me in reject if they see that such a matter-even if it was an honest mistake-ever occurred.</p>
<p>flowerhead, did you really not do anything and get into law school? jk lol</p>
<p>Well I did the required stuff to get in. But in terms of actually preparing for the work in law school, I did nothing. That was your question, right? How does one prepare for work in law school?</p>
<p>I tried reading a little Getting to Maybe, but it seemed like common sense and it never left my bathroom ever since. I also tried Planet Law School II, but the author is a scary gunner who is obviously over-compensating for his failure to do well in law school by writing a treatise on “doing well” and “hating others” 40 years later in his life. Me thinks he should move on.</p>