Just throwing this out there - knew a guy who had a 2.7 GPA from a meh undergrad institution. Got a 177 on his LSAT, got into every T-14 school besides Stanford and Yale (yep, got into Harvard). He now goes to UVA because they gave him a full ride.
... and wrote a killer why Penn essay based on visiting Philadelphia ... knew that getting WL at Penn is a bit of a ... week of submitting that Why Penn essay though, I was in ...