<p>For example, someone can have a 3.8 GPA and have one or two Bs or Cs. If one were to have a high LSAT score with that (say, 173) would he or she have a chance at a t14 school?</p>
<p>Yes, if some one has a 3.83 and a 173 they have a really good chance of being picked up at more than one t-14 schools.</p>
<p>Law schools care absolutely nothing for individual grades except to the extent they inform your overall GPA.</p>
<p>I had a GPA in that area, one C, some B’s, and got into several top 25 law schools and was wait listed at Yale. Lsat was 95th percentile.</p>
<p>and regarding T14, which I guess means top 14, I got into 1 for sure, not sure whether another school was in T14 or not, and my safety was either in top 20 or top 25. i applied to either 3 or 4 top 14 schools, was rejected by one, waitlisted by another(Yale as noted above), and got into the other ones.</p>
<p>Only time it may hurt application(may being the operative word) is if the lower grades were received during the most recent grading period submitted.</p>
<p>So from what I’m gathering, one or two lower-than-average grades shouldn’t destroy a law school application?</p>
<p>I made the mistake of taking a complicated political science class (my major) along with a heavy-reading literature class. In the latter, I’m averaging an A, but the former class’ midterm was much tougher than I expected. Hopefully all of this reading will help me prepare for law school, but I may very well end up with a C in that polisci class.</p>
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<p>Those numbers are a lock for the T14, absent disastrous recs and/or convictions for assault.</p>
<p>tend to agree with bluebayou although i’m not up on current law school apps. Your overall GPA is great by anyone’s standards and law schools when i applied seemed more focused on the overall GPA than an occasional, or in ur case, a sporadic C. As I noted, i had one C and i doubt it had any impact on my admission chances. i am assuming your LSAT score noted above is solid. if u have not taken the LSAT yet, take a prep course. I found mine helpful and I practiced some everyday I want to say for about a month before the exam. the prep course also gave me good prep materials and a quiet place to practice. i was well prepared and did fine on the LSAT. for me, the regular practice took away pretest jitters and I was confident going in.</p>
<p>Just got back my PoliSci midterm. A. Guess I worry too much 
Thanks for the responses!</p>