You’re a weirdo. You named six law schools. That’s a lot of “friends.” What are you doing, stalking half of your kid’s classmates? Creepy AF.

In any event, the majority of law students nowadays didn’t enroll directly after undergrad. It’s nothing new.

GPA doesn't expire after a year

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Anonymous wrote:I assume there are hooks to get into law school...

Is being a rich pretty sorority girl a hook?

No, but having parent or two who went to law school and understand the strategy behind applying is a definite advantage. Not that law schools acknowledge that that kind of privilege.

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Anonymous wrote:Law schools like the students to be older. My kid had a 3.9 and a 174 and didn’t break the top 10. Related ECs, honors. great recs, and a job. But those stats at age 26 with some work experience would probably be a different story.

Unless you have some kind of hook, applying as an undergrad is a disadvantage.

They’re not that old, they’re only a year out of undergrad. 23 maybe 24 years old.

Did they apply as seniors or wait a year? Did they just submit for earliest applications? That helps too. Law schools do rolling admissions. Big advantage to wait until November to be one of the first to submit.

Anonymous wrote:I assume there are hooks to get into law school...

There definitely are. Geographic diversity trumped higher stats in my kid’s recent experience. Law school is no longer “highest score wins.”

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I assume there are hooks to get into law school...

Is being a rich pretty sorority girl a hook?

Your jealousy is lighting up the screen. Maybe consider they have high scores and a great resume.

Anonymous wrote:Law schools like the students to be older. My kid had a 3.9 and a 174 and didn’t break the top 10. Related ECs, honors. great recs, and a job. But those stats at age 26 with some work experience would probably be a different story.

Unless you have some kind of hook, applying as an undergrad is a disadvantage.

They’re not that old, they’re only a year out of undergrad. 23 maybe 24 years old.

Anonymous wrote:I assume there are hooks to get into law school...

Is being a rich pretty sorority girl a hook?

Law schools like the students to be older. My kid had a 3.9 and a 174 and didn’t break the top 10. Related ECs, honors. great recs, and a job. But those stats at age 26 with some work experience would probably be a different story.

Unless you have some kind of hook, applying as an undergrad is a disadvantage.

What on earth are you on about? Your jealousy is leaking out all over the place.

I was 29 when I went to a "prestigious law school," and I had been basically useless for several years before. They could not have cared less -- they loved my 99th percentile LSAT score.

They were not idle for a year and you are just clueless.

DD applied to and got accepted to law school, and then just deferred a year. She wanted to take a break from school and travel. She spent a year in three cities in Europe, bartending and nannying. Then came back and started at law school.

I assume there are hooks to get into law school...

Some top law schools like post-college work experience. It's not as important as GPA/LSAT, but it's a little something extra for sure.

Handful of my daughters’ party girl wealthy friends are randomly at fairly prestigious law schools. They were seemingly idle for a year after college and now they’re at law schools including Duke, Georgetown, UVA, Michigan, NYU, and Penn. It doesn’t take an entire to just retake the LSAT, so I’m just guessing there’s more to it than just a new LSAT score.