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LSAC Calculator |
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10/27/2002 |
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isn't there something on the lsac web site that lets you plug in your numbers and see the schools at which you've got a high likelihood of admission?
maybe there's someone here who has actual experience with admissions committees. i don't. but i tend to think that work experience of the sort you're describing is dime-a-dozen, and not very important. (what the heck is a "top-10 internet company"? and what would an "analyst" do there? analyze how many quarters the company can continue to chew through cash before firing everyone?)
that said, you're hardly screwed. check the lsac site for info on what you need to get into various schools. and yes, figure that being black will help you.
someone on these boards posted this url a while ago: http://www.cir-usa.org/articles/mich_aa_charts_internal.html.
it's a partisan web site -- "The Center for Individual Rights" -- but those tables are instructive nonetheless. at the university of michigan in 1995, there were seven african-american applicants with your gpa and lsat. four got in. and only two accepted, presumably because the other two got in somewhere better.
who knows how things have changed since 1995. but no matter what, you're still looking pretty good, i'd say.
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The url is:
http://officialguide.lsac.org/docs/cgi-bin/home.asp
lots of good info on that site. Go to LSAC data search to plug in the numbers.
As has been discussed earlier, the whole URM (under-represented minority) thing throws the calculator for a loop. You could do much better then the calculator says or not depending on how many URM's apply to the same schools you are.
On the panic attack thing, I've personally felt much more stressed out during law school exams then I did on the LSAT. You may want to consider that factor. Law school grades are a 1 shot deal, all of it based on a final exam at the end of the semester.
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