<p>I was admitted to UNC and am curious as to whether or not attending UNC for undergrad holds any weight in admissions to UNC Law? Thanks!</p>
<p>Not really. I know many students who had the same idea and it did not work out. They were denied or wait listed. LSAT is still major for their decisions.</p>
<p>PM Cloying. She’s got all the info you’ll need.</p>
<p>^ I agree. Cloying is very helpful, kind and will know ALL the details!</p>
<p>Thanks for the help! I PM him/her</p>
<p>Hahaha I feel like Batman y’all are being so nice.</p>
<p>I’m posting this here rather than in a PM just so it can be searched in the future.</p>
<p>Law school admissions is not like undergrad where they care what kind of person you are, what you do outside of class, etc. It is all about numbers. I’d say it’s 75% LSAT and 25% GPA unless you’re borderline in which case other things come into play.</p>
<p>I don’t think it really matters if you go to UNC undergrad to get into Carolina law. That said, I interviewed for the full scholarship at Carolina and I really feel like my commitment helped me get that scholarship. I actually ended up turning that full ride down a few weeks ago. Hardest and most stressful decision I’ve ever made in my life.</p>
<p>In sum - if you want to go to law school, go where ever you want to go where you’ll be graduating with the least debt. Get as close as you can to a 4.0. Study your butt off for the LSAT. Meanwhile develop your resume with things you’re genuinely interested in. I had virtually no leadership in college but I was very active and did things I really enjoyed and I turned out just fine. GL!</p>
<p>That’s what I’ve heard in regard to lsat/gpa. Hopefully UNC gives me a decent fa package so that its as affordable as my in state school! I really want to go there. </p>
<p>Cloying have you been satisfied with your education?</p>
<p>I think Cloying’s advice is largely on point regarding how helpful having gone to UNC is for getting into UNC Law.</p>
<p>I’m not sure it’s accurate to say that it’s 75% LSAT and 25% GPA, though. At most schools, it’s much more like 50-50, and at some of the very top schools–Yale, Stanford, Boalt Hall (Berkeley) in particular–you’re actually better off with higher grades and lower LSAT than with higher LSAT and lower grades.</p>
<p>Congrats on what sounds like a successful admissions cycle, Cloying. Where are you headed in the fall (if you don’t mind posting)?</p>
<p>luxlibertas - I totally agree that some (very very very few) schools care a bit more about GPA. It seems like it literally is only Yale, Stanford, Berkeley, Emory, UNC, and maybe Northwestern, that look beyond the numbers. But I stand by my feeling for the majority of schools out there. For instance, Wash U this year admitted every single person at or above a 168 on the LSAT regardless of GPA (check out lawschoolnumbers) and very few people under that threshold. That means people with 2.2s got into Wash U with scholarships whereas 3.8/166 people were waitlisted or denied. That was a huge turn off to me for that school. Frankly I’m not interested in going to a professional school with a bunch of slackers who can finally get it together for the LSAT. I understand their motivation for rankings but it’s pretty eye opening. Some schools like UT Austin, USC, and Chicago seem to have pretty hard GPA floors but most places are much more lenient if you have a killer LSAT score.</p>
<p>And thank you! 
I didn’t apply to most of the heavy-weights because my LSAT wasn’t going to do any miracles for me but I was very happy with how things went. I decided about halfway through this year that it’s really imperative for my sanity that I defer a year and that made things like aid offers extremely complicated and the whole process ended up being a far more stressful experience than it had to be - picking an undergrad was nothing compared to this. I don’t think that I’m going to share where I’m going just yet just because it’s already pretty easy to identify me and I don’t want to make it any easier, hah. But I’d be happy to PM you anything!</p>
<p>surfwake - I’ve been very satisfied with my education at Carolina and I say that with several family members having gone to Ivies. I think I might do a big ole post when I graduate about exactly what I love about this school, but suffice it to say that over the years I’ve really experienced first hand all the perks of an education here. The opportunities for research and alumni network made this school outstanding to me. That said, I came in expecting my lectures to be the venues where I’d learn the most. I definitely learned good skills through my classes and many of my classes had great discussions; however, it’s the club activities where I really built my resume, met ‘famous people’, and figured my life out… though the labs I worked in were also great for my area of interest as well. To add to what I was talking about up there ^^ graduating from Carolina debt free is an asset that can’t be emphasized enough for me since I knew law school was in the picture from age 15. You can never know how the financial situation of you or your parents might change at any moment and had I decided to go to GW or somewhere more expensive than Carolina I would be in very murky waters right now.</p>