I will be 29 when I start. Graduated a Master's program at 23, traveled, saved, taught reading & writing to wonderful elementary and middle school students for 5 years, but now I'm ready to pursue my passion.

I'm sincerely excited to just learn. I took my undergrad and grad school for granted. I was more concerned to just get a damn job and that's it. Can't wait to start in the Fall!

Felicidades bro! Best of luck in your law journey!

@lusp7949545 said:

Debt is a very serious thing. Are you okay with that money hanging over your head for the next 30 years, accruing massive amounts of interest daily? Are you okay with the stress the debt will put on your family? If you answered yes, then I personally would go for DU. But I would do some soul searching first.

Yes, the debt definitely worries me and will possibly dissuade me from DU. I hope that as I gain experience and my pay goes up, I won't have to deal with debt for 30 years though lol...

@leahbeuk911 said:

I think you need to wait until all your offers are in before you jump to conclusions. But given the choice you presented here, I think I’d go with Denver. Usually I think following the money is the best choice, but Denver is a significantly higher ranked school with better employment prospects in an area you seem more excited about. On top of that, $90k for law school is still a pretty darn good price. I wasn’t totally sure by your post, but I think that cost you gave us is not considering your savings, right? So that factored in too, you could still come out of it with even less debt. I think that would set you up very well no matter what your post-school salary is.

Thank you for your input, @leahbeuk911 . I do agree I need to wait, I just have a gut feeling it'll come down to these schools considering my chances are so low at UH and the others.

And yes you are correct, I wasn't including my savings. The $90k figure does worry me since I've been fortunate enough not to have student debt in the past, this will be new to me. I appreciate your honest feedback, Leah. Best of luck to you!

@charitylehmann316 said:

I wouldn't count Texas A&M out. If you're getting money from Denver, then you may be in line for some A&M money as well. I'm in Colorado and decided not to apply to Denver, because they have conditional scholarships requiring you to keep a 3.0 to keep your scholarship. If you lose it, the tuition rate is pretty pricey. A&M's threshold is just good academic standing, which puts you at about a 2.0 or 2.3, and their tuition is cheaper too. Also, Denver's 1L academic attrition rate was over three times that of A&M last year.

I wouldn't go to an unranked school personally, especially if you're not passionate about living in the area long-term.

Thank you for your advice. I am hopeful to be admitted to A&M, that'll definitely shake things up for me. I didn't think I was going to be admitted to Denver, so once I was accepted I was pretty stoked just to think about possibly living in Denver.

My scholarship stipulation was a 2.3, so I guess it's not so bad? The attrition rate is concerning though, wonder why that is? Thank you again!

We're still working to update our predictor and https://classic.7sage.com/admissions/top-law-school-admissions/ with the new medians. Stay tuned!

Thank you for doing this! Any idea when the predictor will be updated?

@lucykelly459 said:

Sounds like you've got a good chance, but please apply to more than one school.

Oh yeah, I definitely am applying to more than one school.

@kingse414 said:

@cgracia12433 said:

@kingse414 said:

You're below their median LSAT and you're just above the median GPA. I don't know how much being a URM will help you at that school (my intuition is not much).

Not much info about the school on LSN and I doubt you'll find anyone on 7sage that is attending that school.

I thought being a URM gives you a decent boost at most schools, no? Why do you think it won't? Just curious. Thank you for your feedback though I really appreciate it!

Generally the higher the ranking of the school the bigger the boost for being a URM. And the lower the ranking of the school the less of a boost.

That's true, I forgot about this.. :o

@kingse414 said:

You're below their median LSAT and you're just above the median GPA. I don't know how much being a URM will help you at that school (my intuition is not much).

Not much info about the school on LSN and I doubt you'll find anyone on 7sage that is attending that school.

I thought being a URM gives you a decent boost at most schools, no? Why do you think it won't? Just curious. Thank you for your feedback though I really appreciate it!

@kingse414 said:

This may or may not help, but IMHO, if you want to go, take your shot and apply. The thing about models you have to remember, they are accurate over large numbers of people. For example, given your noted percentage of 79%, the model would suggest that out of 100 people, 79 of them would be admitted. The issue for us is that as a sample size of 1, we don't know if we are one of the 79 admitted or one of the 21 not admitted. Bottom line, these models can predict for large groups of similarly matched applicants, not us as individuals. They cannot accurately assess how we as single data points will fare in the admissions process. (Yes, I have a masters in statistical analysis, I'm a closet geek.)

Bottom line: Regardless of what any predictor tells you, if you are interested in the school, submit an application. That will be the best way of showing you in real time if you can get in.

Good luck!

Thank you again, @kingse414 ! Thanks for the analytical feedback. If you were in my place applying to the same school looking at those chances of admission percentages, would you feel good with your chances?

@shaw5563 said:

Check out Law School Numbers to see similar applicants and what their softs were, etc. I think it sounds like a reach school but not a crazy reach.

Thank you. I saw some applicants with numbers similar to mine and there were several that were admitted and they were non-URM's.

Is it a reach though? I feel like its more of a target school, but I guess its a reach since I'm under the median. Man i'm nervous. Thank you again.

Absolutely loving the free time, especially after working full-time. Reading, exercising, netflixing and of cours applications.

Life will be great until August 2019 lol...

@cgracia12433 said:

Carlos - best of luck to you! Seems like you made some great improvement over time! I hope you get the score you want!! You can always extend your subscription if you want to try it again in Jan or March. Perhaps hire a tutor for those extra points? I'm at the point of just ditching this whole damn thing but for whatever reason I keep getting sucked in.

Thank you very much, @cgracia12433 ! I appreciate the support, but I think i'm done. I know if I was to study full-time I could definitely increase, but I think i've taken the test too many times and I also think i've been studying way too long for this, i'm done. I already gave away and recycled most of my materials lol.

I wish you all the best, @cgracia12433. Thank you again for your advice and support!

@jy-ping said:

Carlos, thank you for taking the time to share your journey with us.

I wish you the best of luck! And do update us on Dec. 8th!

Thank you again, J.Y! You truly are doing a great job with this page. In the 2 years i've been able to see a lot of the changes and innovations to the page, as well as seeing the community really grow.

You're an excellent teacher, and very passionate at what you do. I hope I can be just as passionate in my job as you are. Wishing you and the 7Sage community all the best!

Like others have said, I thought this was a balanced LSAT, nothing too crazy. I did however think RC was tough. Seems like most people thought it was easy or hard, no in between.

I thought my first LR with the bonobo question wasn't so bad.

The three LG's except mining were not very bad. I think I got max -5 on LG, which is avg for me.

I had 2 other LR's and I thought those were pretty tough. Lets hope for the best!

@tekken1225189 said:

@cgracia12433 said:

I've just been drilling my weak areas and hitting LG's from 59+ .

Like others have mentioned, most of the hay is in the barn already lol. I'm still wanting to go hard this last week, taking one more PT on Sunday, light drills for next week with my last study day being Thursday.

Don't burn out with a week left, man. At this point its all about mental preparation and staying confident. Best of luck to you. #mambamentality

What you will do is probably what I will do as well.

Are you from SoCal region, or just Laker fan? Lol

I'm actually from Dallas, I'm a huge Mavs and hoops fan! Glad you caught the reference though :)

I've just been drilling my weak areas and hitting LG's from 59+ .

Like others have mentioned, most of the hay is in the barn already lol. I'm still wanting to go hard this last week, taking one more PT on Sunday, light drills for next week with my last study day being Thursday.

Don't burn out with a week left, man. At this point its all about mental preparation and staying confident. Best of luck to you. #mambamentality

I'm very interested in sports law, and I keep telling myself I'm gonna be an agent! Idc if I sign a big time player or semi-pro player, once they sign pen to paper my dream has been accomplished! haha anyway I always see sports & entertainment law go hand in hand, however I don't think my numbers will get me into a good program. I'm from Texas, so i'll likely attend somewhere in Houston or Dallas, hotbeds for basketball and football.

Thanks for the insight though, and best of luck! I'll PM you soon!

It would have been a damn shame if I got even one wrong on this one considering I'm a latino from a border town!

7/7! #vivamexico

@cgracia12433oshun1 said:

I don’t know the exact numbers and I’m totally speculating and this is just from scrutinizing LSN so much, I think the “URM boost” gives you a 2-5 point LSAT boost. Your GPA is also below the median. You aren’t a shoe in with your current stats. I would retake just to get those 2 extra points. Definitely start working on your app now and submit it whenever it’s ready even if it’s before score release. You can just indicate you’re taking November 2018 and they will wait to review with an updated score.

That's whats holding me back, I'm not a definite shoe in, but the percentage is tempting me! Thank you very much for your feedback :)