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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Law schools are going to be able to tell that she’s not that into it.  Great schools will weed out an app like that and they certainly won’t give merit aid.  It’s hard enough for any 24 year old to prove to law schools they can hack it, even with obvious recs, internships, and ECs to prove it.  Law schools prefer older students.

I recommend she either wait until she’s sure it’s what she wants or can go into debt for the hobby of learning (if she can afford an expensive hobby.) I get it. I love learning too and I fully support intellectual curiosity but law school is no joke and you have to be committed.  It also feels wrong to give merit aid to someone who is basically auditing classes instead of someone who will put their degree to work.  I’d suggest she wait until she’s about 28 or 30 to decide. [/quote]

Law schools look at GPA and LSAT. They don't try to figure out if you are interested in becoming an attorney. [/quote]

This outdated advice.

Last year someone with a 3.7/168 got into Harvard but not their friends with 3.8/174 and 4.0/176. Guess which of the three kids had more unpaid internships? Guess which kids worked paid jobs unrelated to law?

It’s really bad advice to tell people it’s “grades and lsat”.  Like undergrad, that is just the beginning.

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HLS medians last year were 3.93/174

75th percentile were 3.99/176

So those friends weren’t in any way distinguished in the applicant pool

https://hls.harvard.edu/jdadmissions/apply-to-harvard-law-school/jdapplicants/hls-profile-and-facts/
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Apparently what distinguished them is being poors who had to work for *gasp* money.[/quote]

I don’t know what you’re talking about, but I find it funny when Gen Xers are like “I had a 3.7 and a 171 and that was good enough to get into Harvard and Yale” and have 0 comprehension that - much like undergrad qualification inflation - those stats are garbage today [/quote]

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