@tylerdschreur10199 Hopping on what @gregoryalexanderdevine723 said, I wouldn't count yourself out. I was recently accepted with stats lower than what Alex Divine just mentioned. And no, I'm not an URM. Nor did I find a cure to cancer.
Obviously I'm not an expert (I just feel extremely lucky), but if you're curious about my situation, feel free to PM. Hope everything goes well!!!
I know that I should already know this, but I unfortunately don't. Should my LSAC GPA be on my resume and the blank in the education section in my application? I originally put down the GPA that is on my school's transcript.
The difference is just 0.01 (so basically nothing), but I just wanted to make sure.
Any help would be really appreciated! :)
@gregoryalexanderdevine723 Thank you! Though we are all strangers, any encouragement really helps. And you're right. I never want to think "what if?".
@danreynolds323 My GPA was good, but not killer (i.e. 3.9+). I never thought about hiring a recruiter. I'll look into it-thanks!
@vtm14207 Thank you :) The most obvious difference is that I took more timed practice tests and used the blind review method. Feel free to PM me and I'd be happy to discuss more.
@danielmoshesieradzki129.Sieradzki You're right-I think so too (to everything you said). Some people say things like "trust me I know an admissions officer and a 3rd score is bad," so anecdotes are helpful! I would be more than happy with some of the lower-middle T14, but wasn't sure if a 3rd score would also hurt my chances for those schools. Thank you for the advice.
@gregoryalexanderdevine723 thanks! Most of them were between 35 and 65. I took only one that was post 65 (I think it was like 66 or something).
@bouyounglee335 My top choices are Penn, Columbia, and NYU. I'm also interested in Georgetown and potentially Cornell...though it is very isolated.
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Reiterating what a lot of people have been saying, I'd say the PS is pretty important if you are a fringe student. This is coming from personal experience (got into a school that is normally ranked within the top 7), as my LSAT was below the school's 25th%. I guess my personal experience is a bit out of the norm, though people would disagree over whether a 168 is a "low" LSAT score for the school I got into.
But I also have a friend at NYU law who had a killer GPA, was a XXX Scholar, and got over a 173. He spent only 2 weeks max on his essay...guess it really depends on your stats.
I spent about only 1 month actually writing and editing it, but easily spent over 3 months brainstorming ideas and struggling over what I wanted to write. Also, I had a total of 4 different people proofreading it. Like someone said, you'd be surprised at how badly someone can write or how easily one can accidentally make a common grammar mistake. Fun story: 3 of the people who read my essay and I did not correct a very commonly made word choice error, but luckily the last person caught it. I know plenty of people who had more than 4 people read their essays, so when you have applicants putting that much care into making sure there isn't a mistake, I guess 1 slip up can be seen very negatively.