<p>Is it still possible for one to get into a T14 or a T20 uni for law if you don't have any extra curricular activities but your GPA & LSAT met the median for that school?</p>
<p>Did you perform and work during the three years prior to making your application? You did nothing but attend class, study and drink? Surely you can come up with something.</p>
<p>Umm..you haven’t even started college yet and you are asking this question?!!! </p>
<p>For your own sanity, join some ECs.</p>
<p>yes you can, but cmon it shouldn’t be hard to just BS some volunteer/work/ec experience.</p>
<p>Assuming you are just starting college join clubs. You’ll feel very lonely on campus if you don’t get involved with anything. This has happened to friends of mine. They didn’t join any clubs and disliked college. Moreover, you can meet plenty of people that have similar interests, party with those friends and make good grades. Depending on the club you might only have to meet once or twice a month. In some cases its just showing up to meetings and discussing things.</p>
<p>Law school is a numbers game, ecs don’t really mean much at all (unlike for college admissions). If you’re at the 75th percentile gpa/lsat for a school, you will most likely get in even if you have no ecs. That said, theres more to ecs than grad school admission…join a club you enjoy, it will be plainly obvious if you just have a couple of bs activities.</p>
<p>Its cause since I commute I would have to either spend more pointless hours at school or keep commuting back and forth between the times. So wondering if I should just focus on my education and screw the EXC or do a bit of both and risk getting tried and the sort.</p>
<p>Since you commute, I would suggest picking one EC that you’re really interested in and making the time commitment. It’ll make your college experience so much better – and if you stick with it, you’ll probably be able to secure a leadership position which will look good on your resume.</p>
<p>I commute as well. Without living in a dorm it is much harder to meet people on campus. For that reason I strongly suggest showing up to a few meetings of some clubs and then picking a few to stick with.</p>
<p>News flash: Unlike undergrad, 95% of law school admissions is a numbers game. This is primarily because law schools almost only care that you are smart enough to do the work. Law school is highly, highly intellectual and rigorous, and therefore ECs won’t hold as much sway in admissions because they’re less important in law school itself, and not a good indicator of whether or not you can keep up the pace (“keeping up the pace” is relatively easier to do in UG).</p>
<p>Notable exceptions are Yale and Stanford, who notoriously only admit those with great numbers and awesome ECs. Harvard, I have been told, is strictly interested in numbers. That is to say, numbers alone could get you in, although an awesome EC would by no means hurt.</p>