<p>Coming out of Duke with a GPA around 3.95, how high does the LSAT score has to be to get into the very top (say, top 5) law schools?
I've heard that GPA+LSAT matters the most and ECs are much less important, but is this still the case with schools like Harvard?</p>
<p>LSAT matters a lot more than your undergraduate GPA.</p>
<p>Simply not true. You need both a very high grade point average and a very high LSAT to get into Harvard. Similarly, the other t-14 schools admit based on a combination of grade point average and LSAT.</p>
<p>I’m just curious about top 3,4 schools. I have a decent idea about where one has to be to get into the other T-14 schools from seeing other ppl. I’m not too sure about the schools at the very top (HYS, may be Columbia) because there aren’t that many ppl (although I saw somewhere that Duke was one of the top 3,4 schools represented at HLS a few years back).</p>
<p>According to some, if you get about 175 on the LSATs (with your 3.9 GPA), you should fare well in admissions for Harvard. There’s a website that will calculate your chances based on GPA/LSAT score</p>
<p>If you are capable of getting into a top law school, I would recommend that you seriously consider NOT going to law school, and taking another route.</p>
<p>There is a vast over-supply of lawyers. Most lawyers, even those who went to the top schools, may get a big job at a big firm, but they will work 80 hours a week, and will eventually be terminated, and then they will wind up at some crummy 15 man firm.</p>
<p>This advice is not only based on my own experience, but also on the experiences of a myriad of friends and co-workers. </p>
<p>I know you will pooh pooh this advice, but consider yourself warned. I am not the only one on CC who has posted similar messages/warnings.</p>
<p>It’s this one: <a href=“http://www.lawschoolpredictor.com%5B/url%5D”>www.lawschoolpredictor.com</a> (I think/hope it’s all right to post the link.)</p>