<p>I know law schools only care about lsat score and gpa, but humor me. Do law schools care if none of your ECs are related to law?</p>
<p>I don’t think they care about any EC’s.</p>
<p>Hence “humor me”.</p>
<p>If you have no EC’s whatsoever, that’s a red flag. The particular field in which you spend your time does not matter.</p>
<p>If you roll in with a 3.9 and a 178 LSAT, they will know what you spent your time on other than being the vice associate assistant for your college’s t-shirt give away weekend.</p>
<p>Other words, the lower your stats, the more EC’s may come into play.</p>
<p>If your grades and LSAT score place you in the vast pool of applicants who have sufficient numbers to put you in the running for a particular law school, then your other credentials, including extracurricular activities will certainly come into play. Please remember, though, that it is very important to show leadership skills, dedication, creativity and service through your ECs. The ECs themselves are just a way for you to show these skills, so please don’t join 15 clubs where you never go to meetings just to have something to write on a resume. In fact, when you do do interviews eventually, one of the first things you will often be asked by interviewers comes from your list of ECs and interests – it’s a good ice breaker. </p>
<p>In my experience, the most valuable EC is typically part-time (or full-time) work experience while in school. Holding down a job while in college shows responsibility, ability to juggle tasks and ability to live within the constraints of a work environment (boss, colleagues, maybe even subordinates, plus managing resopnsibilities and frustrations). </p>
<p>By the way, even with very high GPA and LSAT score, your personal statement and recommendations will always be reviewed and taken into consideration. The admissions professionals need to know that you are a fairly normal, hardworking person (and without an in-person interview process, the recommendations provide some estimate of that information) and that you can cobble together a cohesive essay using proper grammar and spelling (thus, the personal statement review). I don’t know of a single law school, even a more “numbers driven” school, that will simply add together some multiple of your GPA plus LSAT score to make an admissions decision. It’s not quite that simple.</p>