Just got my LSAT, now what / where?

[arcady]

I just got my score, a 167.

Now I've got to sit down and think about where to apply - here in or around San Francisco, or try to sneak my way into one of those schools on my dream list on the East Coast (Harvard - yeah right, the two in NYC I can never remember the exact names of, and so on).

The big issue for me is my GPA.
I spent the nineties taking oddball evening classes to support my 'dot-commer' fix, and had some wild idea of getting a Computer Science degree at one point - which cut me down quite a bit.

I've got a 3.77 at the university I attend -SFSU, where I expect to graduate in december- but it drops to 3.11 when I add in my Junior College days...

Hopefully by December I'll pull that 3.11 up a little more.

So I suspect my reality choices are Hastings, SFU, and that sort - my dream choices are everybody's dream choices: Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard. But even as a Native American that's a dream, but it's about time to wake up and see what's really out there...

[dta]

There was a kick ass little LSAT + GPA calculator that someone once posted a link to (i think it was zpops?) a long time ago. Anyone know the link to that site? That's definitely a good place to start. Plug your gpa + lsat in and see your % chance of admission.

Anyone know it? Not the LSAC calculator (that thing sucks), but some calculator made buy some individual guy.

[Victor]

There was a kick ass little LSAT + GPA calculator that someone once posted a link to (i think it was zpops?) a long time ago. Anyone know the link to that site? That's definitely a good place to start. Plug your gpa + lsat in and see your % chance of admission.

Anyone know it? Not the LSAC calculator (that thing sucks), but some calculator made buy some individual guy.

Yeah I would like to use that calculator aswell.

[zpops]

It's http://www.chiashu.com/lsat.html

The info is the most curent available, so it's really the best means of gauging your shots.  But take it with a grain of salt, since for example I had n 89% chance of getting into HLS but was actually WL'd. 

P.S.  I'm glad you remembered it was me DTA.  It's kinda weird how I was such a major part of these boards just 2 months ago, and now I'm all but forgotten   The pace that this board moves at can be scary. . .

[3023]

I have a 3.92 GPA and a June 14th LSAT of 165. WHERE would I be a competitive applicant? Can I get into any Tier 1 schools?

[dta]

I have a 3.92 GPA and a June 14th LSAT of 165. WHERE would I be a competitive applicant? Can I get into any Tier 1 schools?

Click zpops' link above.

[TDPookie1]

Zpops, thanks for the link!  I heard about it and kept checking it, but it was down for the longest time.  And you have a 3.99/175?  I'm so screwed...   

I have a better chance of getting into NYU and Columbia than Berkeley.  So weird.  Although it makes sense, since Berkeley is public and gets a ton more applications probably.  Just not what I expected.  Here I thought Berkeley could be a safety and NYU and Columbia could be more reaching.  This website is awesome though!

[ruskiegirl]

Zpops, thanks for the link!  I heard about it and kept checking it, but it was down for the longest time.  And you have a 3.99/175?  I'm so screwed...   

I have a better chance of getting into NYU and Columbia than Berkeley.  So weird.  Although it makes sense, since Berkeley is public and gets a ton more applications probably.  Just not what I expected.  Here I thought Berkeley could be a safety and NYU and Columbia could be more reaching.  This website is awesome though!

Berkeley is the most competitive public law school and its acceptance rate comes in third overall, behind Stanford and Yale.

[dukie]

I got a 168 which i was dissapointed with.  I still want to go to Harvard or Penn.  I think I have a shot.  I go to Duke (as you can tell from my name) and am scheduled to graduate Magna Cum Laude (3.75); double econ/psych.  I'm in the process of writing a senior thesis evaluating from an economic perspective the efficiencies of contract law. 

I've been working since I was 14.  I've started and sold a start-up, am heading up another now.  I've worked in two big name banks, a PR firm, I've TA'd math, and RA'd in cult. anth. 

Anyone think I have a shot?

[ruskiegirl]

IMHO, yes.