You wrote:
"I’m just fighting it because my GPA would get me into most any T1 but my LSAT (those damn games specifically- I hit 80-85% on LR and RC but 30-35% on games) are keeping me away."
Well, if it makes you feel better, even if GPA were the more important factor for T1, then your GPA actually WOULDN'T get you in. The reason is that far more people have high GPAs (say, 3.7+) than have high LSAT scores (say, 170+). After all, if 150,000 take the LSAT in a given year, the number scoring above 170 will be 2% = 3,000. There are certainly far many more who get 3.7+ GPAs (at my school, this is roughly what you needed to get magna cum laude; and cum laude was something like top 15%. So even at my undergraduate school alone, perhaps 150 people got 3.7+; multiply this by the couple of thousand undergrad schools in the country; or, in terms of law school applicants, 15% of 150,000 = 22,500). So IF T1 schools put the greatest weight on GPA rather than on LSAT, the places would go to the tens of thousands of applicants with very high GPAs, and very many will have higher than your 3.8. So it doesn't make sense to say that, if only LSAT didn't count so much, your GPA would get you into a T1; *IF* LSAT didn't count so much, then the whole model of law school admissions would be turned on its head in the first place