Could I get into law school?

The single most important admission factor for Law School is your score on the LSAT. I’d say if you score 160+ you’d have a good shot at decent schools. If you score between 154 and 160 you could probably land at a tier 3 or tier 4 school.

if you don’t get into the school you want on the first try and it’s because of your GPA and not your LSAT, some work experience might help your resume. My GPA is not stellar (3.3) but I scored above a 160 and was accepted into a top tier school (with a big scholarship). I think the fact that I am 5 years out of undergrad helped offset my low GPA.

I don’t think adcom’s will concentrate on your Miami GPA, they’ll probably look at the cumulative score (except schools like Duke, Emory and Cornell, they put a lot of weight on your UGPA and school).

I’d encourage you to study hard for the LSAT (it’s not like a lot of other standardized tests, it’s a test that really separates people, 50% of the takers score 152 or below) and take it as early as possible (they only offer it four times a year). If you’re applying next year I’d say take June 2008 LSAT because then you can see if you need to re-take it or take your score and apply early to schools (that helps too).

this is a great site to see what other people with similar numbers are doing and the schools they were accepted/rejected from:

http://lawschoolnumbers.com/

Good luck with it!

If you don’t care what school you get into, then yes, you will get in somewhere. Just make sure you go to an ABA acreditted school, otherwise your degree is pretty much worthless.

Thing is, 2.6 at a University shows that you either didn’t try very hard, aren’t competitive, or aren’t very smart. Law degrees are Doctorate degrees…if you don’t try, can’t compete, or aren’t smart, they don’t want you. You need to prove that you’re none of those things.

You will need an extremely strong personal statement and some addendums as to why you did poorly at Miami. You will need to ace your LSAT. Don’t get your hopes up, just because you’re a good test taker doesn’t mean you’ll do well. You’ll need to study extremely hard and put in long hours. This isn’t a Community College test, you have to prove why they should take someone with your background over someone who had better scores from a 4 year university. Just so you know, your semester in DC and your management position at a job won’t mean much. It’s all about the grades.

Going back to what I said earlier, you can probably get into a school somewhere, but you REALLY need to put all your effort into studying for the LSAT, because right now it’s your last resort. Good luck!

You will certainly be able to get in somewhere, especially if you score strongly on the LSAT. Most lawschools accept or reject you on a simple composite of your GPA and LSAT score. The 2.6 will probably not affect you if you did well after that and maybe if you include a valid explanation as to why your performance dropped in that semester.

a 7.2 huh?

I think you will be able to get in, but I am not an admissions director. That was a long time ago, and your GPA is pretty good. With a strong LSAT score, I am sure you could get into a decent school.

It relies upon what you recommend by utilising a State. Michigan State or Ohio State — sturdy, California State or Minnesota State, not so sturdy. a great form of the appropriate inner maximum universities settle for extremely few circulate scholars. Princeton, for occasion, would not settle for any. Harvard and Yale settle for 20-30 out of 1000 applicants. Stanford is even harder. however the basically right state universities do settle for transfers. you will possibly do nicely in case you are able to circulate right into a public college like Berkeley, UNC-Chapel Hill or college of Michigan. yet a nil.33 or fourth tier state college won’t help you just about as plenty.

Take a look at my LAW SCHOOL FINDER and compare law schools that you are interested. You will be able to get an idea of different school’s acceptance criteria.

Rest assured that some school somewhere will accept you, pretty much no matter what. Noticed how many lawyers there are?