<p>Hi guys, I currently attend an Ivy League school, and have a 3.8 GPA. My school gives 4.3 for A+, and was wondering if that is competitive for HYS Law since my gpa is already 3.8/4.33? What LSAT score coupled with my GPA might I need to have a good chance for top 5, hopefully? And does being Asian count at all? In college admissions it might have affected a bit, I dont know, but I read that ethnicity or being a minority doesnt matter as much in graduate schools.</p>
<p>Being Asian won’t help. However, if your Ivy undergrad is Harvard, Yale or Princeton, that might give you a tiny bump.</p>
<p>Your 3.8GPA will still require you to get a top LSAT score to get into a top school. I recommend doing some research on [Top</a> Law Schools](<a href=“http://top-law-schools.com%5DTop”>http://top-law-schools.com) - the fact that you referred to the top 5 instead of the top 6 suggests you haven’t done too much, and TLS has just about everything you might want.</p>
<p>If you go to that website and look at the rankings, you’ll notice that the top 6 schools have respective 25th percentile GPA’s of 3.83, 3.72, 3.78, 3.6, 3.71, and 3.57. That means that 75% of those who attended each of these schools had a GPA at this level or higher.</p>
<p>Far more important, though, is your LSAT score. There are countless high GPA’s out there due to grade inflation (especially in the Ivy League). However, there are a very limited supply of high LSAT scores, and so schools are vying for those high scorers. That where you want to be - having these top schools fighting for you to attend.</p>
<p>According to myLSN, you’ll need at least the following LSAT scores to have a good chance at the following schools:</p>
<p>(I left out Yale and Stanford, because they’re not so numbers-obsessed)</p>
<p>Harvard: 175
Columbia: 171
Chicago: 171
NYU: 170</p>
<p>These might be easy scores for you to get, but you still probably will need to study - don’t just assume the LSAT will be easy for you. Remember, the average Harvard undergrad only gets a 166 on the LSAT.</p>
<p>Some good resources:</p>
<p>[Top</a> Law Schools](<a href=“http://www.top-law-schools.com%5DTop”>http://www.top-law-schools.com)
[myLSN.info</a> - LSN search](<a href=“http://www.mylsn.info%5DmyLSN.info”>http://www.mylsn.info)
[Welcome</a> to LawSchoolNumbers.com | Law School Numbers](<a href=“http://www.lawschoolnumbers.com%5DWelcome”>http://www.lawschoolnumbers.com)
[Law</a> School Predictor Target Acquired…](<a href=“http://www.lawschoolpredictor.com%5DLaw”>http://www.lawschoolpredictor.com)</p>
<p>Best of luck to you.</p>