Deciding to Attend Law School by Princeton Review

Author:Princeton Review
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Information Group
Published: 2012-03-13T00:00:00+00:00

YOUR CHANCE AT ACCEPTANCE

Let’s just say you have your heart set on Yale Law School, arguably the finest law school in all the land. Let’s also say you have stellar academic credentials: a 3.60 GPA and an LSAT score of 174, which is in the 99th percentile. With these heady numbers, the probability that you’ll get into Yale is maybe 5 percent. You didn’t read that incorrectly: it’s 5 percent. However, with the same 3.60 GPA and the same LSAT score of 174, your chance of admittance at a legal powerhouse like Duke University is about 40 percent—not stellar, but a whole lot better. At a perfectly great school like Boston College, you’d stand nearly a 75 percent chance of admission. With significantly lower numbers—say, a 3.20 GPA and an LSAT score of 161—you’ll need a lot of luck to get into a top-flight law school but gaining admission to Southern Methodist University in Dallas or Temple University in Philadelphia are reasonable possibilities.

The odds are that there is an ABA-approved law school somewhere in the United States that will accept you if you have graduated from college and taken the LSAT. That school may be pretty awful. However, if you end up at the top of your class there and have even a shred of interviewing skill, you can get a prestigious job. Notice the important catch, however: You must graduate at the top of your class at lesser schools to do well. Graduates from the very best law schools who want high-paying jobs can land them a lot more easily without needing to be at the very top of their class.

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