<p>Let's say I major in BME or Chem E and get a low gpa as is very plausible...
but then let's say I major in EMS and get a really good gpa.</p>
<p>Would top law schools (HYS and Columbia) take into account the difficulty of your major? That BME is much tougher than EMS?? Or would they prefer the higher GPA with the easier major???</p>
<p>Also, what is the difference between IE and OR??</p>
<p>law schools take into consideration the difficulty of your experience, where you are coming from, etc.</p>
<p>one thing to know about law school admissions is that they are obsessed with data, so they don’t put you on a simple lsat v. gpa matrix, but they compare you to kids who have applied from columbia, who have applied as bme. and then they see how good you are at communicating your experience, what folks say about you, etc.</p>
<p>so though the lsat and gpa are without question the ‘most important,’ it is very much contextualized.</p>
<p>and lastly - a lot of kids forget that even for a brutal genius getting into a top 5 law school is really hard, so put that into perspective. if you would like to attend law school i think the first thing is to decide how bad you want it, if you just want to attend a top 5 school, that is kind of a narrow take on law school. particularly if the school is not strong at what you want, or if it is just a factory. a place like HLS is well known, but it has huge classes, and it might not be for you.</p>
<p>Jesus admissionsgeek, please stop posting about law school. You’ve tried to post about it before, and it’s clear you have absolutely no clue. There is so much wrong about your post I don’t even feel like critiquing it, and I’d just advise the OP to ignore it.</p>
<p>To the OP: it’s absolutely better to get a 3.8-4.0 in EMS. It’s not even a close call.</p>
<p>i’ll stop when i’m wrong, i know the admissions officers at cls and hls and guess what it is from their mouths to your eyes, but thanks for saying otherwise.</p>
<p>a 3.8-4.0 gpa in EMS and applying where? with a lower gpa he can get into plenty of good top 20 schools. your advice is rife with assumptions.</p>
<p>Knowing admission officers doesn’t mean much. An admission officer will <em>tell</em> you that they consider breadth of experience, major difficulty, etc. And they do–to a very limited extent. (They offer this holistic picture of admissions in part because they want as many applicants as possible.) But what’s more telling than what an officer says is the actual data. Law school numbers is a good source, as are the official numbers published by LSAC. If you want to get into the very best schools (YHS), then choose the easier major. (I say this with the usual provisos–your major should be something you like, that’s challenging, that’ll make you a better thinker, etc etc.)</p>