Law school admissions

Graduate School Law School
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<p>For undergraduate admissions, it seems that once your stats are "in the range" for top schools (UW GPA >3.9, SAT >2250), extra 50 point on the SAT will not make a difference between acceptance and rejection (at that point the other parts of the application determine admission, and there is no point retaking SATs in order to improve your odds).</p>

<p>Is it the same for Law schools? Would 3.9 GPA and 173 LSAT put you in a position where the rest of your application determines admission, or would it be worth retaking the LSAT in order to try and get few extra points?</p>

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<p>Every point matters.</p>

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<p>Why on earth would you retake the LSAT with a 173? That’s ludicrous. Is it really worth risking to get a 175?</p>

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<p>It is not recommended that you retake the LSAT in the situation you describe. A main reason: although many law schools now consider your highest LSAT score to determine admission, a large number either follow the old rule of averaging your scores or state that they will consider both in the admission process and don’t say whether they average. Thus, doing worse on a retake can hurt you.</p>

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<p>My kid has 3.5 GPA from Brandeis but a 155 on the LSAT. Do you think admission is possible?</p>

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<p>I doubt a 3.9 and 174 would get into Harvard and a 3.9 and 173 wouldn’t.</p>

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He can certainly get in somewhere. The question is: what sort of law school is he willing to go to?</p>

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<p>I’m realizing that my post #2 is misleading.</p>

<p>I should have said:
"It’s not a threshold effect – a 174 will not be considered equivalent to a 180. There would, in other words, be a benefit if you were to retake AND get a higher score.</p>

<p>That does not mean it’s necessarily worth actually retaking."</p>