<p>Which of these schools weight the lsat most heavily in their admissions procedures? Also, how much does majoring in engineering effect your percieved gpa; does it add maybe .1 vs. majoring in english? .4? .5?</p>
<p>Georgetown, definitely.</p>
<p>I now know several engineers at GULC who were admitted with a sub-3.3 and 175+ LSAT.</p>
<p>Do not take it for granted, though. These persons worked hard on their applications, and made a compelling case for their acceptance.</p>
<p>Georgetown. And there is a neglible value of Engineering GPA in law school applications, I'd think .1 at the highest. (Although anyone who has been in Engineering would argue for at least .3, and rightly so.)</p>
<p>Just looking at lawschoolnumbers.com & the standard 25-75 numbers:</p>
<p>Schools easier on GPA: Georgetown, UVA (standard 25-75 rankings do not back this, but lawschoolnumbers does), UMich, UPenn, Chicago, Northwestern, Columbia, NYU</p>
<p>Schools harder on GPA: Cal, Stanford, Yale, Harvard (though easier relative to Yale/Stanford), Cornell, Duke</p>
<p>Uh, you mean Columbia:D. Colombia is a country;).</p>
<p>Uhhh - my bad. I just get them confused, they both have cocaine usage at about the 30% mark. :)</p>
<p>Pretty much:D, although one is a producer primarily. The other one just imports.</p>
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<p>Who? Columbia?</p>
<p>Teeeheee.</p>
<p>Thanks for the heads-up! I'll definitely have to keep all of this in mind...</p>
<p>I would say that Northwestern, Chicago, and NYU rely more heavily on LSAT; Georgetown, at least when I applied, was all about GPA, no matter what. Hell could have frozen over during your final exams, but they wanted to see As. At least that's what an admissions officer told me.</p>
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<p>Wow! That is odd. Yeah, I know many students at the law center (and most are now 2Ls), and they told me that the only factor keeping them out of the rest of the top 14 was GPA.</p>
<p>Rising 2Ls or rising 3Ls? </p>
<p>Or maybe they just had enough "low GPA" engineer-types apply that year and didn't want me. :) I did, however, see the same effect with other people - those who were admitted, with merit money, to higher-ranked schools but waitlisted or rejected at Georgetown. LSAT was high, GPA was low.</p>
<p>Rising 2Ls.</p>
<p>my gpa was above the 75th %ile most places i applied, and my lsat below the median. so my results may give you a hint of places who are willing to look more at gpas and who really wants the lsat score.</p>
<p>in: minnesota, michigan, nyu, georgetown
out: harvard, yale
waitlisted: penn, berkeley</p>
<p>my best advice to you if you turn out to be a 'splitter' is to apply as early as possible, binding ED if you find a place you love. i think that having my apps in by early november made a real difference in where i got in.</p>
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<p>Excellent advice.</p>
<p>The same was suggested by Anna Ivey in her text on law school admissions.</p>
<p>what's a 'splitter'? and what's a 'rising 2L or 3L'? o_o</p>
<p>I guess a "splitter" is an applicant with a strong situation in only area, either the LSAT or GPA, and a weak or relatively weaker situation in the other category.</p>
<p>A 1L is a first-year law student, a 2L is a second-year law student, and a 3L is a third-year law student. A rising 2L just finished the first year of law school, I think.</p>
<p>I thought Boalt (Berkeley's law school) was more lenient on the LSAT and stressed GPA.</p>
<p>nspeds, what other useful information does Ivey give (read- I'm too lazy to read it, at least right now).</p>
<p>Do law schools have early decision? I thought that all of the top schools had rolling admissions.</p>
<p>So it is true that law schools will change their admissions criteria from year to year.</p>
<p>Sally: yes. Some (such as Columbia) have a binding early decision. I think Northwestern might have it as well. Some, like Georgetown, have early notification. Many other schools do rolling admission only. </p>
<p>Either way, it is best to get one's applications in ASAP (beginning of October at the latest). Early decision/early action/early notification deadlines are at the beginning of November, and many schools require that they have received all of your LSDAS info by then.</p>
<p>"I thought Boalt (Berkeley's law school) was more lenient on the LSAT and stressed GPA."</p>
<p>DRab, me too--which is why i was surprised to get into other T14s that supposedly looked more at LSAT (like NYU & Gtown) and waitlisted there. I'd figured that if any T14 would take me, it would be Boalt. But it just goes to show that law school admissions aren't completely formulaic--there's something of a crapshoot element.</p>
<p>And about ED, I know that Michigan has a binding one (where you have to start in the summer--you can also apply nonbinding for summer or fall start, which is what I did). Many others have early action, where if you get your app in by a certain time (usually mid/late oct.) you hear by xmas. of course, what you 'hear' could just be a deferral and then you won't get a final decision for several more months.</p>