Internship vs. Retaking LSAT

Graduate School Law School
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Hey guys!

So this past February I took the LSAT and scored a 167. I was studying fairly lightly over November and December and heavily over January (approx. 20-30 hours per week). I attend a mid-tier liberal arts school with a major in Economics and a 3.92 GPA.

I’ve been looking at my options for the summer and, unfortunately, most of my top choices for internships fell through. I was offered an internship at a firm in DC but mostly as a favor to my mother whom the partner knows. He was pretty frank with me and told me I’d be doing a lot of busy work and nothing terribly of use because they don’t have much for me. Seeing as I don’t live in DC, this would probably cost me a good deal of money for the summer to sublet.

My other option is to stay where I am (I have to pay rent here anyway) and study to retake in October while working in a bar to try to save for law school. I’d really like to go into my first year with a good chunk of change to minimize the debt. My dream school is NYU Law and I know that right now I’m looking at around a 40/60 ratio of admittance.

What do you all think? Should I take the job to have it on my resume (which is already fairly long having had an internship every year since graduating high school) or study and save?

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If you’re committed to law school, I say go the study and save route. It sounds as if the internship couldn’t lead to a meaningful job. A 170 or higher score on your LSAT will pay off in getting you into many T14 schools, some with merit scholarships - and the higher your score, the better your options will be.

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oh my, retaking is the only answer. Do not waste that 3.9.

A 17x and you should receive several excellent merit offers. Do not attend NYU if you are full pay. Law School is a professional school, and unlike undergrad, forget about "fit’ (unless you fit in well with HYS!).

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If you get a 170 or above you should get in pretty much everywhere.

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I don’t understand why you can’t take the firm job AND study?? How are they mutually exclusive? Especially if the firm job / internship is busy work? Your resume will be more law related and you LSAT score will be higher. A lot of law at law firms is administrative and busy work. If you can show that you have this experience and you still want to be a lawyer, then that speaks volumes.

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Law school admissions only care about last scores and gpa. They don’t care about internships. Is this a paid internship? If not, I would skip.

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Above post should read LSAT scores and gpa.