<p>I am a 3.4/180 who will attending one of Columbia, Chicago, NYC in the fall. Though I am very excited about law school and want to get accustomed to my school and the experience before I really think about this, more than a few people have suggested that I consider transferring to Yale, which is apparently feasible given my LSAT score.</p>
<p>Can anyone here tell me what kind of opportunities I would be forgoing, such as law review etc, and also what kind of grades in law school I'd need in addition to the 180 in order to transfer?</p>
<p>I could be mistaken here, as I don’t know much about transferring, but I was under the impression that it really mostly depended on your first year grades and that your LSAT score was not terribly important. For instance, I knew somebody from undergrad who had ok grades and a so-so LSAT. Ended up at UConn for law but then transferred to HLS. In that case, it was obviously not his GPA/LSAT that put him over. Anybody who knows more want to correct me on this?</p>
<p>Transferring to Yale will do little for you that you can’t achieve by graduating from Columbia or Chicago or NYU (if I’m editing you correctly).</p>
<p>You’d probably be better off doing law review wherever you end up this fall.</p>
<p>Why not just apply to HYS to begin with? C’mon you have a 180 for Christ’s sake! You should be an instant admit just about anywhere.</p>
<p>Also, if you don’t mind me asking, how did you mange a 180 to begin with? Did you just put in a crapload of studying or are you just a natural wiz at the LSAT?</p>
<p>Yale takes about 12 folks a year as transfers. I only know a few stories of folks who have done it successfully. They had done extremely well at other top law schools. Additionally, they had very specific reasons for wanting to be at Yale. Plan on being among the top 3 in your class if you want to transfer. And have a good reason why you want to.</p>