How will being a transfer student effect admissions?

Graduate School Law School
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<p>Hi,
I transferred (as a junior) to UC Berkeley from community college. Now that I'm considering applying to law school, I'm wondering how this will impact my admissions. Do law schools look down on transfer students? It might help if I had a positive way of spinning this for them (e.g. low-income, paying for college while working a job on the side), but I don't. The truth is my parents could've amply afforded to send me to an expensive liberal arts college out of high school. I didn't want to go that route. Now I'm worried that I will be rejected from law schools for not being a four-year student, even though my numbers are otherwise pretty good. Do I have a shot at getting into a T14 law school? </p>

<p>The breakdown:
Community college GPA: around a 3.9 (straight As except for a C in Calculus II my first semester)
Berkeley GPA: 3.73 (on my transcript, not including 2 A+s)
LSAT:174</p>

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<p>You’re fine – you’ll be evaluated as if your 2 years at community college was at your degree-granting institution (Berkeley), in the same was as an applicant who attends for all 4 years. Your chances won’t be diminished in any way.</p>

<p>P.S. Nice stats (btw, may I ask which courses the A+s were in? :))</p>

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<p>Thank you! That is very helpful.</p>

<p>both my A+s were in lower div. requirements-- 45B&45C.</p>