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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you mean by "top"? With a [b]GPA of 3.75+ and an LSAT of 175+, you'll get into Chicago and Columbia[/b] and will have a shot at HYS. Drop the LSAT to 170+ and you'll get in to at least a couple T14 schools. [b]Drop GPA to 3.5+ and LSAT to 170+[/b] and you have a shot at T14 but it's not guaranteed. And things start to get really sketchy once you drop under 170. (Yeah, lots of kids get into T14 and even T3 schools with LSATs in the 160s, but lots more don't.)[/quote]
I am once again begging people who haven't been through Law School admissions in the last couple of years to familiarize themselves with the current landscape.
The top admissions consultant has published this list of 2020 and 2021 admissions stats:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Oxg1daKToiMystD7rGrbpnHNO-JXdc2ugQMrR0YR7aQ/edit#gid=0

For Columbia last year, the medians for accepted students were 174 LSAT, 3.84 GPA
For Chicago, they were 172 and 3.91

The highest-ranked schools with a median GPA near 3.75 were:
Boston U (3.77, median LSAT 169)
Notre Dame (3.77, 167)
UNC (3.73, 164)

There were 15 schools with a 170 median last year; the lowest media GPA among them was 3.8[/quote]
Did you miss the "+"? Yeah, if you slip into the box with exactly a 175 and exactly a 3.75, you might get rejected by either Chicago or Columbia. On a crazy bad day, maybe even both. But with any margin above either line, you're getting into both. [/quote]

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