Applicant Wisdom & Insights

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AldiLaw2020

GPA: 3.68 • LSAT: 164 • University of Pittsburgh

Don’t shoot for the highest ranked schools. Shoot for the schools where your stats are above the median. You’ll get scholarships and will have smaller debt.

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backsolving

GPA: 3.93 • LSAT: 171 • Harvard University

I have 3+ years/4 seasons of experience in the front office of an NBA team in basketball analytics. Through my PS and DS, I tried as hard as I could to boil down the question of my admission to:...

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TheSplitter

GPA: 3.0 • LSAT: 167 • Arizona State University

I began my college career with a 1.8 cumulative GPA freshman year… by fall of senior year I’d raised it to a 2.8 cumulative 3.2 degree GPA and finally graduated with a 3.0 cumulative & 3.5 degree...

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MessyTawdryKingfisher

GPA: 3.84 • LSAT: 164 • Rutgers University

Applied w/ a 3.76. Went up to a 3.84 mid cycle. Cardozo twice (completely unprompted) increased scholarship 2X. Was initially offered 35,000 a year in my acceptance. In mid March, I was informed...

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CatDad

GPA: 4.0 • LSAT: 174 • Vanderbilt University

Screw this cycle Yale: 250 on an author/novel I wrote one of my senior papers on, specifically his conception of hell and its implications Stanford: sent Stanford-specific LORs, answered 1/3...

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Tiger97

GPA: 3.45 • LSAT: 159 • University of South Carolina

I have ~1 year WE in the mortgage industry. I’ve also worked 20-30 hours/week in retail and foodservice jobs throughout highschool and undergrad. STEM major from a large public university. Was...

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ReppinTheLBC2

GPA: 3.64 • LSAT: 166 • Boston College

Take my app year’s results with a grain of salt. I mean it was 2020, with inflation in application numbers and LSAT scores. Be that as it may, here are a few things I did that could be very...

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hotcookie

Int'l GPA: Above Average • LSAT: 170 • University of California—Los Angeles

American citizen that graduated from a UK Russell Group university with a 2:1. T3 - AmeriCorps, single-parent household, lots of volunteer and nonprofit work If I could turn back time I would’ve...

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CoralineJones

GPA: 4.04 • LSAT: 174 • University of California—Berkeley

You will forget this all once it’s behind you. Logging in as a 3L to check my LSAT score in order to answer demographics questions for MPRE registration. Almost ordered a new transcript to check...