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LSAT and Acceptance |
| Message Name: |
thanks! |
| Date Posted: |
02/22/2001 |
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The thing you want to focus on is 25th percentile admits.
Look at the US News.com first tier. There's no magic in the "first tier" idea, but this will be a good place to start. You'll see what GPA and LSAT folks who got in the top 10 or 20 schools had.
Remember, at the very top, grades and LSAT are so high among applicants that they can look at all sortsa things.
In general, though, if your stats equate to the 25th percentile admit, then you can feel good about getting in.
Not suprisingly, the stereotypic application pattern is "reach"--places where you miss by a bit the 25th percentile figure; "good possibility"--places where your stats roughly match the 25th percentile stats,and "safety", places who admit folks with credentials a bit less impressive than yours.
Play with the US News tables, and look at hiring and median incomes in the various cities (you might also want to play a bit with a cost of living calculator--ones like you find over at realtor.com can be a bit assumption-crude, but workable--message boards have folks complaining, for example, about 40K a year, when in fact 40 K a year goes pretty far in some rural states). Once you've analyzed the median incomes v. tuition v. rank v. etc., then you can sort out what you'll need to meet the application requirements of your definition of a "decent school".
I hear from folks who get financial aid for law school, but don't know enough about your specifics to know whether you have a shot.
I read about folks who got into schools they thought were reaches, and attributed it to their post BA jobs, but I do not know if these anecdotes mean anything.
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Thank you very much for the response. I'm fairly ignorant about the entire concept of law school applications, etc, and your post definitely answered a lot of my questions!
As for the post about Management Consulting, I agree with the guy who has done it for five years. We are purely in this for the $$, not really caring who we help or hurt, as long as we make our money. This may be a naive outlook, but I guess it seems like I could make some kind of a difference by working in law as opposed to consulting.
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