Applicant Wisdom & Insights

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user123124125

GPA: 3.55 • LSAT: 158 • Southwestern Law School

Apply early, grind your LSAT preparation, work hard in undergrad and work for a few years afterwards.

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FamiliarGoose

GPA: 4.0 • LSAT: 160 • Southern Methodist University

After three attempts at the LSAT, my lsat score is a 160. I tried my best, all that I can with this test and am just gonna let fate bring me the results. As long as you tried your best its all...

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NoHandleBarista

GPA: 3.63 • LSAT: 162 • Georgia State University

Don’t get too caught up in the moment. Keep calm when making your decision, and don’t be afraid to change your mind!

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PlacidFurtiveLeopard

GPA: 3.3 • LSAT: 174 • University of California—Berkeley

Some notes about my GPA: Attended a large public university as an in-state resident- Wrote a GPA addendum addressing my downward trend and briefly noted that I received As in all but one of my...

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Lalalalalalalalal

GPA: 3.83 • LSAT: 174 • Northwestern University

TOUGH cycle but grateful to land my dream school with generous scholarship. After two months of drafting and then hating what I drafted, I came up with a very incompetent PS on a extremely...

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Snippy7

GPA: 3.55 • LSAT: 149 • University of New Hampshire

just do your best and be yourself. apply to some safeties just in case but also shoot for the stars, you never know! you got this :) I got waitlisted at places I thought I’d get rejected from,...

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ElasticElfinSiren

GPA: 2.72 • LSAT: 172 • University of California—Irvine

If you are in undergrad and you know you want to go to law school, don’t graduate with a low GPA. Definitely don’t graduate with a sub-3 GPA. Ask me how I know. Just keep taking classes until you...

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swagadocious

GPA: 3.05 • LSAT: 165 • Michigan State University

Do note that I have estimated certain scholarship figures when not awarded as a numerical sum. In cases of a “full tuition” or proportional scholarship, I assumed a 5% increase in all costs per...

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PreviousLittleShark

GPA: 4.0 • LSAT: 180 • Harvard University

On application timing: many of the resources I found online either led me to believe that application submission timing made very little difference in outcomes (podcasts from Spivey Consulting,...