<p>is poli sci an easy major?</p>
<p>wait- so i can go to Tulane or UCSB or some such unappetizing school and graduate with 4.0 - and get into harvard law??</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>*** is your problem? neither Tulane nor UCSB are terrible schools…i dont think you’ll get into harvard law…</p>
<p>i know they aren’t terrible- i never said they were… they just aren’t exactly gourmet like Stanford or Princeton… look, both UCSB and Tulane have bright kids, BUT the average SAT scores are really depressing.</p>
<p>and i hope your didn’t really mean that im not getting into law school- actually… lol… i meant med school. woops. ha</p>
<p>I actually believe that GPA IS more important that prestige. You know why? GPA standarize a focus point: Universities will not accept anyone. Ivy League’s, for example, will rarely chose anyone who isn’t an honor student. Now, when we talk about prestige, we refer to the fame and honor that an institution possess because of the high grade of education it offers, right? This simply will be convey and observed with the LSAT. If you went to such a great university, and learn with the best, you shouldn’t have problems with the little test we make you take: the divine LSAT. If you have received such wonderful and prestigious education, it will be a walk trough the park, won’t it?</p>
<p>I don’t want to appear sarcastic, but I really think, after all I have read about the theme, this is how the admission officers consider this bussiness. It harsh, but I think prestige only will take you so far: maybe if you are head to head, equal in every single way, with another competidor, maybe prestige will take you further, but, if not, I don’t think where you did your B.A. will count for much.</p>
<p>I’m currently deciding between HYP and full ride to Emory for undergrad. I’m almost certain I would get a better GPA at Emory. Should I take the full ride if I’m looking for top law school acceptances?</p>
<p>If cost is an issue, and you feel you’ll do well at Emory, then yes, go there. </p>
<p>In the future, individual concerns should be individual threads, please.</p>
<p>My current undergrad professor said that Northwestern loves to take in Harvard grads especially in hopes that they could one day brag that Harvard grads regularly fail out of Northwestern’s system. I don’t know how true this is but that’s what he said.</p>
<p>Not credible, since medical schools consider failed students to be a mark of shame rather than pride.</p>
<p>It’s credible. It may not be correct.</p>
<p>Let me clarify. We can confidently tag that as incorrect without bothering with empirical data.</p>
<p>Fair enough. That was just his experience.</p>
<p>Reading the past 9 pages I have drawn this conclusion-</p>
<p>I am a freshman, now sophomore, in undergrad college. I have been taking LSAT Practice tests recently. I score about 93% (average) correct on my first 3 or so tests. This translates to about a 167. I know the actual test day could vary, but I would like to think as a freshman I have a good start. I go to a fairly no name Liberal Arts school in Chicago but I am transferring out to a state school for money reasons. (Which is kind of ironic seeing as how the scholarship that LAS gave me is what made me choose the school in the first place…)
…Anyways, my main conclusion is that choosing either NIU or SIU or some other place similar in Illinois (not UIUC) should not either help or hurt me in the long run when it comes to admissions to law school. That is what I got from reading the past 9 pages. Am I about right?
Just for clarification, I know that NIU and SIU have law schools but I really am not interested in those schools; nor am I interested in Yale and Stanford, just want a solid law school that will place me in a solid, stable job. Not saying I won’t apply to top schools though. I may be getting a little ahead of myself, I still have 2.5 years, or so, of undergrad. Thoughts?</p>
<p>Your impression is correct.</p>