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Blk female w/3.96. chances for |
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who gives a rat's ass if you're "BLK?" |
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10/27/2002 |
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I am hoping that someone currently attending one of the law schools on my list can give me his or her thoughts on what kind of LSAT score I'll need to have a good chance of getting into these schools:
Yale
Harvard
Stanford
Columbia
NYU
Chicago
Berkeley
Georgetown
I just took the oct.5 exam, and I think I scored in the high 160s (but who knows?) i'm a black female with a 3.96 from a state u. I double majored in economics and political science, and finished 2nd in a class of 385. i played college athletics and then played my sport professionally for a little while. now i'm a consultant with a top firm. i'll have strong recs, as well.
any thoughts are appreciated!
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damn this kinda bullshit pisses me off.
i'm a minority too, and while you might be able to tell it from my skin i don't wear that fact like a badge.
who gives a shit if you're black, white, green or any mix of the three? people like you simply perpetuate the all-too-common weltanschauung among so many minorities that keep the world from being colorblind, as it well should be: namely, as a minority you're entitled to some kind of 'one-up' on the rest of the world because somewhere, some time, your forefathers were somehow oppressed by someone white. please.
this all coming from a minority himself.
throughout law school i have stayed far far away from the silly "[insert minority here] LEGAL [conference/special hiring meeting/discussion/summit/etc]" that seem to go on every week.
i like the idea of schools striving for diversity, but this should not supercede striving for excellence. sometimes it's understandable when a school admits the less-qualified handicapped daughter of the latino miner over William Preston III of Yorkshire, but minorities from sea to shining sea have interpreted such a gesture as the go signal for entitlement.
now maybe you're none of these things, and maybe i should quit procrastinating and get to work. but your insertion of "BLK" (such a weak shorthand by the way) in the subject title and repeating it again in the body "i'm a black female" (yay!) just annoyed me. you're a fabulous candidate for any of these schools as is; dont think or expect that the fact that your skin is black should make anything different.
[end rant]
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