<p>Hey,</p>
<p>My roommate is Native American. He goes to a top 10 non-grade inflating Ivy (oxymoron?).</p>
<p>3.3 GPA
170 LSAT</p>
<p>His GPA is kind of low, but he is an athlete so very busy, and showed his smarts with the 170. Can get get into top tier schools (I'm not pre-law so I dont even know what those are). I know he said his #1 is Columbia.</p>
<p>about 30% chance?</p>
<p>If he is a member of a registered tribe, then he has a chance. That GPA is on the low end of the spectrum, but that LSAT score together with being a Native American, might just put him over the top. This may be a splitter.</p>
<p>TP is right on.</p>
<p>I asked this question a while back, but I would certainly appreciate some fresh input now that this topic has come up. My brother and I both own cards confirming our membership in the Cherokee tribe, though only 1/64 of the blood coursing through our veins is Native American. He applied to Yale in the spring of 2004 and checked the URM box. Yale promptly requested proof of his Cherokee membership; he provided it and was soon accepted. I’ll be applying to law schools next fall and hope to be accepted into a few T-14 schools on my own merit. Should I check the URM box even if that small fraction of Native American blood has had virtually no impact on my life experiences or worldview whatsoever?</p>
<p>If you are an official member, then you are an official member. That’s the bottom line.</p>
<p>Cause Stone Cold said so</p>
<p>He is 1/4th Chatow.</p>
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<p>Whether or not you are Native American is determined by the government. They seemed to have deemed you Native American. You can therefore call yourself that in your application.</p>
<p>He would better his chances by committing to Columbia via Early Decision.
However, doing so, he’ll never know whether Yale, Harvard, or Stanford would have accepted him.</p>
<p>I’ve read in the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education that of 11,000 or so African-Americans who take the LSAT annually, only ~30 score a 170 above.</p>
<p>I don’t know what the situation is for Native Americans, but I would wager that fewer than 11,000 of them take the LSAT annually, and that earning a 170 places him at the very tip-top of his minority group.</p>
<p>Hence… YHS might be worth the risk of not applying ED to Columbia.</p>
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<p>Just curious - does the card indicate the extent of your membership? I doubt it’ll say you are “only” 1/64, but is there a point at which your descendents no longer “qualify”?</p>