<p>Unfortunately due to a variety of problems, I just wasn't able to do well the first 3 semesters or so and by the time I graduate my gpa will be in the 3.48-3.5 range. Only until recently was I able to finally have both the time, discipline, and skill to get 4.0 in the more difficult math and science classes. </p>
<p>With the various ranges of LSAT scores, where do the various 3.5 applicants get accepted in?</p>
<p>You will be well positioned to take on $150,000 in debt into a shrinking legal market with poor odds of paying it back in the T14 if you get a good LSAT.</p>
<p>Well, don’t forget that a good part of the loans are merely for living expenses. Living for three years is a lot of money. I was hoping to take the more conservative route and work full time and get the degree part time.</p>
<p>You’re still going to want a T14 unless you have a job lined up already. I don’t know which of those (if any) have part time programs.</p>
<p>The quality of law school applications are slowly sliding into the abyss.</p>
<p>Which is good for you if you want to go to law school.</p>
<p>GULC is the only T14 with a part-time program that I know of.</p>
<p>Play around on mylsn.info and lawschoolnumbers.com.</p>
<p>If you get a 160-165: <a href=“http://myLSN.info/dispresults.php?sk=oebmh[/url]”>http://myLSN.info/dispresults.php?sk=oebmh</a>
If you get a 165-167: <a href=“http://myLSN.info/dispresults.php?sk=zmhcw[/url]”>http://myLSN.info/dispresults.php?sk=zmhcw</a>
If you get at 167-170: <a href=“http://myLSN.info/dispresults.php?sk=ijl45[/url]”>http://myLSN.info/dispresults.php?sk=ijl45</a>
If you get a 170-173: <a href=“http://myLSN.info/dispresults.php?sk=gq1x5[/url]”>http://myLSN.info/dispresults.php?sk=gq1x5</a>
If you get at 173-175: <a href=“http://myLSN.info/dispresults.php?sk=xbt5l[/url]”>http://myLSN.info/dispresults.php?sk=xbt5l</a>
If you get a 175-180: <a href=“http://myLSN.info/dispresults.php?sk=2e021[/url]”>http://myLSN.info/dispresults.php?sk=2e021</a></p>
<p>Summary: T14 starts to open up in the 167+ range, maybe upper T14 with a 170+, 173+ opens up CCN, really no shot at HYS.</p>
<p>To be honest I want to go to something like Duke or Michigan or Chicago. </p>
<p>I guess I need to study really hard for the LSAT.</p>
<p>If you have to go to law school, go to Duke. The weather’s nice and it’s a wonderful campus. I went there. Wonderful school.</p>
<p>If you want to live in a big city, go to NYU or Columbia, don’t go to Chicago.</p>
<p>If by “slowly sliding into the abyss”, you actually mean the admissions process is very slightly less competitive today than it was 4 years ago, because the reality of the legal job market is beginning to sink into prospective applicants, well I suppose that’s the case.</p>
<p>As Apple has just shown us, where there are powerful companies, there will always be a need for lawyers to do something.</p>