Hello, I am new to this website. I am currently a junior at the University of Central Florida and am interested in law school. I have a 3.39 GPA currently but might get a D+ this semester in a class for my minor. Will this hinder my chances to get into FSU law? I am mostly an A and B student and have never received a D
Here is a VERY rough approximation of what most law schools look at when evaluating applications:
60% LSAT score
30% cumulative GPA
10% everything else: major, work experience, background, prestige of undergrad, etc.
There are a very small number of schools (Yale, Harvard, Stanford) that get enough applications with top LSAT scores and GPAs that the “everything else” becomes the only real basis to distinguish among them. There are also a small number of schools (Boalt Hall comes to mind) that are known to place as much emphasis on grades as on test scores, and neither can overcome a deficiency in the other.
But most schools will be inundated with applications from 3.3 - 3.7 GPAs that simply aren’t directly comparable to each other - different undergrads, different majors, different classes for the same major, or different professors for the same class - and rely mostly on the LSAT to determine which students they want.
hey! i am also wondering the same thing in regards to getting into a good law school. i just graduated from high school and am going to an ivy next year. i’m a little nervous about making my fall schedule and i have a lot of class options that allow either pass/fail or graded. my uncle graduated from harvard law and he also said that law school admissions is really a numbers game. if so, should i just take more pass/fail classes if i’m not confident in whether or not i’d pull off that A? or will law schools care about transcripts, and whether or not i took easy classes?