<p>I know top law schools like HYS care a great deal about GPA, but do they take into account the difficulty of where you went for undergrad and your major? For instance, I'm leaning towards computer science or economics at MIT, which is ridiculously harsh on grading. Will law schools take that into account much, or can I pretty much rule getting into a top law school out of the question?</p>
<p>Minimal GPA compensation as such, but GPA is not the determining factor.</p>
<p>Why only minimal GPA compensation?</p>
<p>Minimal gpa compensation = they want 3.8 and you have 3.75 from MIT.</p>
<p>1.) Because they don't have to compensate fully, since the LSAT is usually the more important factor.
2.) Since knowing how to compensate is impossible, so they'd never know if they're under- or over-compensating.
3.) Since Boalt did compensation and apparently had a scandal on its hands when this was discovered.
4.) Since part of the reason they want high GPAs is for US News rankings, and US News doesn't do any compensation.</p>
<p>Who cares about HYS? If you have an OK LSAT you'll still end up at CCNMVP or get money at a lower T14.</p>
<p>I was looking at the lawschoolnumbers website and noticed that there were people with GPAs around 3.1-3.3 BUT had beastly LSATs (177+) and still got into T14 law schools, so a high LSAT can trump a low GPA.</p>