<p>Does class selection during undergrad matter?</p>
<p>I ask this because I was originally pre-med and therefore took alot of science classes during my 9th and 10th. I took more political science and humanities courses during the last two years of undergrad.</p>
<p>Your… ninth and tenth?</p>
<p>BDM,</p>
<p>Op is still in high school.</p>
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<p>Banging head against desk until it bleeds wondering why telling the truth is such a hard concept especially for what seems like a smart person who apparently is not good at lying.</p>
<p>whats wrong with hypothetical threads? </p>
<p>I could be asking about someone else, you know. </p>
<p>Can you please just answer my question and not try to verify if what I say is true?</p>
<p>There is nothing wrong with hypothetical threads accept for the fact that you would get a better answer if you managed the facts and there is a big differents from what you hope to do and what you actually do. Law school admissiosn are based on actual work done.</p>
<p>The problem is that your current question does not make sense. If you were really a college junior or senior you would know at this stage of your life that no one would care what you took in 9th 10 grade (major non-issue).</p>
<p>My recommendation is that you rephrase your question.</p>
<p>Does class selection during undergrad matter?</p>
<p>I ask this because I was originally pre-med and therefore took alot of science classes during my 1st and 2nd years. I took more political science and humanities courses during the last two years of undergrad.</p>
<p>there you go</p>
<p>Why don’t you rephrase the question for the future tense (i.e. If I were to take so and so classes my first and second years…?)? No one likes a liar.</p>
<p>Dude, somehow I ended up in the hardest class in my school’s law and society program…in freshman year. I’m screwed. And I had a 3.4 last semester. I might as well just give up all aspirations of getting into NYU Law :(</p>
<p>NYU student, you’re in your freshman year. Don’t be irrational, you have plenty of time to make a comeback. Have a big spring semester and let the momentum carry you into next year.</p>
<p>Re Post #8. According to my kid, NYU is one of the schools which is notorious for weighing LSATs heavily. Do well on it and you’ll be fine.</p>
<p>The answer is “no.”</p>
<p>If you studied something really quirky maybe it might catch the eye of someone, but by and large it’s grades and LSATs.</p>
<p>And the grades aren’t like in high school (that is, very few law school applicants have a 4.0).</p>
<p>Re post #10. That could be a problem. I went out an took a practice LSAT, and while I don’t know my score yet, and I’m still a freshman, I intend to graduate early and don’t have much time. And uh there wasn’t a single section where I didn’t run out of time. Not to mention on the reading section, I answered maybe 12 out of the 25 questions. I hope they don’t take points off for wrong answers.</p>
<p>I was like, it’s just a practice test, 155 or somewhere in that range and I’ll be okay. Nope. I think I might have gotten like a 140. The logic games section wasn’t all that bad though, just a pain in the ass to play out all the scenarios.</p>
<p>Don’t sweat it. My first lsat score was a 143; this was freshman year as well. This really worried me. Flash forward two years and I score a 151. Mind you, this is with no preparation, just the added intelligence two years in college brings (faster reading/comprehension of dense texts, analytical skills, basic logic, etc).</p>
<p>Personally, I am glad I had the full 4 years of undergrad to learn, but that does not mean you are at a big disadvantage. Your preparation for the lsat (self study, class, etc) will make a huge difference.</p>
<p>MSUDad…define “quirky.”</p>
<p>A minor in law and society wouldn’t count as something “quirky” would it? I guess more along the lines of “unique” or “different.” Or maybe not. Even though I can only think of like, 2 college that offer it at the undergrad level.</p>
<p>@ Devo: Was the 151 your real score or just a practice test? Because that’s not very good and certainly not good enough for NYU law. Why didn’t you study?</p>
<p>To clarify, those were two different practice tests that I took two years apart. I am now studying for the lsat. My point was simply to show that the rigor of a college education will increase your intellectual abilities (and your capacity to score well on the lsat).</p>
<p>Oh, I see. Yeah, this seems right. I increased my score 7 points from the beginning of my Freshman year to the last practice I took, which was two weeks ago (I am a junior). Without studying in between.</p>
<p>I mean, don’t forget that the SD on an LSAT is three points anyway, meaning that a confidence interval is 12 points. You have to get a 12 point difference to be really sure that two scores are different.</p>
<p>Actually at 1SD=3 points, it’s nine points. +/- 3 standard deviations is 99.7%, above that, it’s not really statistically significant.</p>
<p>95% CI = mean +/- 2 SD.</p>
<p>So the original (say) 150 might really have been a 156 and just a bad day. And on a good day, maybe that 156 becomes a 162. Same baseline score, 12 point variation.</p>