Law School 95th percentile

So I just graduated from Boston University with a double major and I finished with a 3.49 g.p.a (3.53 according to the lsac grade calcuator). I'm really discouraged because I have dreams of going to NYU law school (Vanderbilt or Emory University law school are also top choices). My GPA is on the low side, and my question is: should I try to go to graduate school to raise my gpa? The average gpa for these schools is 3. 8, so I know my LSAT will have to be in the top 95th percentile for me to have a chance. Should I just try to go to graduate school just to increase my GPA (and improve my chances of getting into these schools)? I appreciate your advice!!

It's your undergrad GPA that they pay attention to, not your grad GPA. While having a strong Grad GPA can help, and having a masters can help, it won't substitute for a poor undergrad GPA. With that said, your undergrad GPA is not poor at all. It's in the range you need for those schools. Maybe a tiny bit low, but really, not so much. In the range. My advice to you would depend on your LSAT score. What I'd ask you to do, in fact, is go ahead and prep for the LSAT. As you do that prep, you will take sample, full length LSAT exams. This will give you an idea of how you might score in real life; and it will help guide you on your next steps. If you find that your LSAT is in the ranges for NYU, then I'd have you go ahead and apply to NYU and etc. See if you get in. If you do not, then you go get a good masters, to strengthen your application. If your LSAT isn't even in the ranges for NYU and etc., then it's a whole other issue. So... LSAT prep first. Take some sample LSATs as part of that. See how you do. Then decide next steps. But don't jump right to a masters without knowing where you stand on the LSAT first. And again, if your LSAT is decent, go ahead and apply to law school. If you get in, great. If you don't, go do the masters, then apply again. For your masters, if you go that route, chose wisely. Pick something that you're genuinely interested in, and go to a good program, not to a low ranked program. Consider getting a masters in something where you can use that masters in order to do something, career-wise, just in case law school either doesn't work out, or in case you change your mind. In other words, don't get a masters in cinema studies just for the sake of getting a masters. Get a masters in something you like, and which has some sort of real-world application, so you can use that MS to get a job if you need/want to.

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A near-perfect (3.95+) college GPA and 99th (well, higher than 99, so 99+) percentile LSAT score will make you a lock for Harvard Law School. So you can get in based solely on numbers and little soft factors. This is not the case for Harvard College, where you can be refused despite a perfect test score and transcript. Maybe so, but Harvard College can reject applicants who are beyond qualified academically whereas Harvard Law School cannot.

I agree. I'm really tired of hearing that Harvard is the "best law school in America" and that you need "great extracurriculars!" to get in there. Not so - Harvard Law's class is much larger than most (over 500) and they can't be as selective as Yale and Stanford. They are much more numbers focused than their peers in the top three. The undergraduate program is more competitive. And while you need good grades and test scores to get in, they're not enough to push you over the edge. At Harvard Law, they essentially are.

...what was their height and weight? By 6 months what was their height and weight, and 8 months, too. My mother in law is telling me my baby is too big for his age, and he eats too much. He was 8 lbs 15.5 oz and 22 " when he was born. By 6 months he was 19 lbs and 27" and now at 8.5 mo. he is around 24 lbs and 29". He went from the 95th percentile to the 92% and is now in the 88%. He is bottle fed. And he eats Stage 3 baby food, and juice and water, and 1 or 2 snacks per day.

Don't worry about what your mother in law says. Our parents always want to parent us. What had you doctor said. My daughter weighed 7lbs 9oz when she was born and by the time she was 3yr old everyone thought she was turning 5yr. but her doctor said she was fine she was growing and maintaining normally for her. Everyone is different if you ask your doctor he will tell you there is what the statistics say is within normal and there is how you child forms there own growth pattern. Don't worry. plus he'll go through a faze were he won't eat as much and he'll thin out baby get fat then stretch out and get tall and that goes back and fourth for awhile.

am a Junior male living in New York City (and I would prefer to stay here). I am hoping to apply to NYU and Columbia, possibly Adelphi as well. I want to major in physics, then major in astrophysics in grad school, and minor in bio. I am having trouble finding schools like that, so I would like recommendations. Anyway, here are my statistics: SAT(taken once): total-2180, 96th percentile Critical Reading-690, 94th percentile Math-720, 95th percentile Writing-770 (essay[10]+multiple choice[75]), 99th percentile GPA: 3.6, although it seems to be rising now that I'm done with stupid classes like art and italian Extracurriculars: about 80 hours in total. Worked in an aquarium, library and now I'm a peer tutor in my school for math. rigor of workload: I took AP world in 10th grade (got a 4), I am currently taking AP US with AP Calculus. Plan to take AP physics, stat and Euro or Economics next year. My electives were law and psychology. personal information: American born, Russian-Jewish ethnicity. Mother is sick with cancer so much of the housework falls on me because my parents are divorced. My financial status can be classified as needy. My cousin went to Columbia (not sure if that counts as legacy).

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