<p>I'm from a top 15 undergraduate with a 3.0 GPA and 170+ LSAT, do I have a chance to get in any of the top-100?</p>
<p>Oh definitely. It really depends on how far north you are of 170, but UVA and Northwestern are quite friendly to splitters. People with 3.0s/170+s tend to make it off Georgetown’s waitlist too.</p>
<p>A pretty good friend of mine with a 3.0/175+ is at Columbia/NYU.</p>
<p>Whoa. LSAT is that important? What about a 3.4/3.5 and 170+ LSAT?</p>
<p>^ Are we talking 174? 171?</p>
<p>A 3.5/174 could get you into CCN, I’d think. Law School Numbers is helpful for this kind of stuff.</p>
<p>Flowerhead, do you know how your friend got that score? Do you think you can find out or if you already know can you tell us his strategy?</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure she’s a genius. I don’t think she even did more than take a single practice test.</p>
<p>Well do you know what she majored in? That might help a little…</p>
<p>Maybe she just tests really well. That’s a possibility.</p>
<p>Not only a possibility; it’s definitely the case.</p>
<p>My score came from about 3 month’s prep. I wish I could go in with only one preptest under my belt, but I guess I’m not that smart…</p>
<p>I wish I didn’t have to take a year off to study for the LSAT. I’m not taking any chances. I have two chances to get it right, I’m not ****ing it up.</p>
<p>I hope you do something else to account for that year, as resume gaps filled by “LSAT Prep” are generally not satisfactory for either employers or law schools.</p>
<p>Really, preparation for a standardized test shouldn’t take so long. I know, it’s your future, and that score determines a lot; but I also feel like 1 year of your life is far too much to devote to a standardized test.</p>
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<p>One can play around with this.</p>
<p>It’s not too much to devote to a test in my opinion. Where you go to law school (a large part of which is determined by LSAT results) determines what job you get and how much you’re going to be paid for the rest of your life (or at least in the medium term). I think it’s pretty damn important.</p>
<p>Yes, I understand that. That’s why I was sure to include that little tidbit in my post.</p>
<p>Like I said, I hope you’re also doing something else (like a job or something equivalent) during that year. No one likes seeing students who took a year of LSAT prep to do what another kid did while in college or at a job. Moreover, when interviewing season comes along, no one likes to see gap years filled just with LSAT prep.</p>