Applicant Wisdom & Insights

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KimWexlersBurner

GPA: 4.2 • LSAT: 173 • Cornell University

It’ll all work out. Probably.

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SWWSW

GPA: 3.97 • LSAT: 174 • Harvard University

Yes, you have to write all the optional essays. Schools that called: UVA (434), NYU (212), Northwestern (224, caller ID = “spam risk”), Harvard (617), Penn (215). During the process, a very...

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auctionlentils

GPA: 4.09 • LSAT: 169 • Columbia University

don’t listen to any admissions predictors. essays/resume and your fit with a particular school are more important than your stats

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Only-Rs

GPA: 3.36

Unless you have a 4.0 GPA, a 178+ LSAT, and like to throw away your money at pick-me institutions that aren’t really there to educate anybody, find another field. There are plenty of options out...

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UnredactedRegulatorySasquatch

GPA: 3.29 • (Part-time) George Mason University

“Admissions committees probably know your Starbucks order by now.”

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MusingForensicFirefly

GPA: 3.7 • LSAT: 145 • Wilmington University School of Law

Trust the process whatever is meant to happen in your law school journey will happen. Don’t be so extreme with prestige. I lived in a city all my life and I never felt more unhappy here in the...

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AppliedRoyalTuna

GPA: 3.67 • LSAT: 156

Don’t take high school college courses, your GPA will thank you later

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Wildcard-23

GPA: 3.93 • LSAT: 159 • Southern Methodist University

Reddit can only tell you so much of the story, trust yourself and your gut instinct and put the time and effort into what you know you’re good at versus what the internet thinks you should be...

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YoLaTengoFanNo1

GPA: 3.42 • LSAT: 172 • University of North Carolina

Softs/essays/work experience/LSAT can counteract a weak GPA (especially if you’re older, perhaps?). Find a writer friend to review your boilerplate personal statement to catch the one passive...