What are my chances for these law schools

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hiz!!! just wanted to know my chances for these law schools- NYU (will be applying early decision), Columbia, St, John’s, Fordham, Cornell, Yeshiva & Villanova

Stats & credentials
3.79 GPA at a respected but not top tier university
Political science major, philosophy of law minor
169 on my last 2 practice LSATs so assuming I will score around that
In Democrat and voting advocacy clubs
Political science honors society
2 summers working in marketing
Have an online internship through the Washington Center this summer
Will most likely an internship with a law firm next summer

What are my chances at those mentioned schools? Thanks!

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whatever you do, do NOT apply ED. Rediculous waste. If you have the numbers to get into NYU, surely Fordham will give you some merit money. Why pay sticker?

do you have an absolute personal need to be in NYC? There are plenty of other great highly-ranked law schools below NYU. Law school is only three years, and getting back to NY from say, Northwestern or Michigan or Duke is really easy. Any of those three would be better than St. Johns, Yeshiva, 'Nova.

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Got it! And for a few personal reasons, I have to stay near New York for my law degree; therefore schools such as Northwestern, Michigan and Duke are out. The absolute furthest I could go is 5 hours in any direction from NYC, preferably staying in New York.

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Penn

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You do know that its only <2 hour flight to Chicago?

But definitely add Penn and consider Georgetown and George Washington.

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Cool, I’ll research them. Thanks! I would have a better shot at UPenn/Georgetown than NYU?

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Here are numbers that may help your application process–

http://schools.lawschoolnumbers.com/

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Boston U
Boston College
George Mason

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Is the college GPA as recalculated by the LSAC method?
https://www.lsac.org/applying-law-school/jd-application-process/cas/requesting/transcript-summarization

http://schools.lawschoolnumbers.com/ may help you with chances. For each law school, the site has a handy graph like http://nyu.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1920 .

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OP: LSAT practice test scores do not necessarily equal one’s actual LSAT results. One or two points difference in an LSAT score can have a significant impact in law school admissions.

Better to wait until you have an actual LSAT score in hand.