<p>Hello!</p>
<p>I'm a Hokie who wants to go to law school in Washington, DC or Virginia. Here are my stats:</p>
<p>B.S. Civil Engineering, Virginia Tech GPA: 3.4
LSAT: 165</p>
<p>Which law schools in Virginia or Washington DC do you think I could get into ? I'm new to this site and from what I've seen there are quite a few well informed posters here, so if you don't mind giving me your expert opinions I would be very happy to read your comments.</p>
<p>run your numbers through LSAC Data search (lsat & Gpa)</p>
<p>you can also try </p>
<p><a href="http://www.lawschoolnumbers.com%5B/url%5D">www.lawschoolnumbers.com</a></p>
<p>where you can select schools and see registered users and how they made out at these schools</p>
<p>you can try this one too</p>
<p>I'm assuming that you're a VA resident, so the first two schools (as matches) that I would suggest are George Mason and William & Mary. (if you aren't a VA resident, those would be more match/reach schools for you.)</p>
<p>In the match/reach category, put GW and W&L.
Reach: Georgetown, UVA (maybe the engin. thing will help out; your stats aren't going to keep you out, but are on the low side for those schools)
Safeties and matches, no particular order: Richmond, American, Univ. of Maryland, Catholic, Baltimore.</p>
<p>If you really want the MD/DC area, those ten schools should be it. Your stats are good enough so that you would definitely be assured of some of them, maybe with money; none of them are out of your reach.</p>
<p>Doesn't William & Mary have the lowest acceptance rate of the Virginia and DC schools?</p>
<p>If I sound cranky, I mean it. I try to give people good, informed opinions, and keep uneducated half-opinions to myself. But when someone throws something out there like, "Oh, this school does this and this," it really makes my life harder if I want to ensure that posters get good information.</p>
<p>First of all, who gives a crap if a school has a low acceptance rate or a high acceptance rate? It's a lousy indicator of difficulty of admission. Yale's acceptance rate is relatively high, but only the super-qualified people even apply. W&M waitlists a lot of people automatically, so they cut down on the people who they accept but don't want to go there. They do accept, according to LSAC, 924 students every year. </p>
<p>GPA: 3.80-3.31
LSAT: 165-160.</p>
<p>Um, for a 3.4 student with a 165 LSAT and VA residency, that's a match.</p>
<p>Georgetown:
GPA: 3.80-3.42
LSAT: 170-167</p>
<p>Um, yeah, that's a reach for someone whose GPA is hovering around the 25th percentile and LSAT doesn't compensate, because it's lower than the 25th percentile.</p>
<p>GW:
GPA: 3.80-3.45
LSAT: 166-163</p>
<p>Wow, that looks a lot like W&M, just slightly higher LSATs.</p>
<p>UVA:
LSAT: 171-167
GPA: 3.83-3.53</p>
<p>Hum, it's probably harder to get into UVA than to get into W&M. The OP's stats are in the bottom 25th percentile for each, hence the "reach" label.</p>
<p>W&L:
GPA: 3.79-3.25
LSAT: 166-162</p>
<p>Sounds a lot like W&M, but with a slightly higher LSAT requirement.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for the info - it's very helpful. I am indeed a Virginia resident.</p>
<p>I do have a few other questions regarding Law School that I'll ask in new threads instead of loading them onto this thread.</p>
<p>Aries-Athena:</p>
<p>Sorry to "bust your chops." Just wanted to point out that W&M is equivalent to W&L and GW, and above George Mason when you really analyze things (the US News peer ranking skews popular perceptions but numbers don't lie). I concede that Georgetown and Virginia are more established and have more graduates serving as judges and partners of major firms out there.</p>
<p>No doubt that W&M is an excellent school; it's not UVA or G-town, though. For VA residents, it's reasonable to call W&M a match if you have a 3.4 and a 165.</p>
<p>You also might want to try Washington and Lee.</p>
<p>I'm just wondering, what is a "hokie" ?</p>
<p>Red and orange. Nerdy. Found in the Shenandoah Valley. Mortal enemy of the Cavalier... a "Hokie" is a VA Tech student. :)</p>
<p>Main Entry: hokie
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: an emasculated turkey</p>