2006-12-19 08:40:54 · 7 answers · asked by withaglutelikethat 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
Law schools do look at other things besides your GPA, when deciding whether or not accept you.
There are law schools that accept students with GPAs below 3.0. They may not be the most reknown they are however acredited, which is what matters.
Sure if you attend a lesser known law school you will likely have a more difficult time finding a job. If you do well on you Bar Exam that should greatly increase your chances. Besides where you get JD isn't that significant if you go on to pursuing you LLM.
Check out LSAD/ LSAC website and use their law schools search programme to see what your chances of getting into each law school will be.
Good Luck
2006-12-19 08:52:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you consider John Kerry successful. LOL
Actually some of the big trial lawyers like Gerry Spence were not great students. They are great actors who get a jury to cough up other people's money.
Seriously, you better focus on an area of law that people will pay up for, like tax or business law, because you will not have the grades or high ranking law school pedigree to make much as a generic lawyer, unless you are the exception to the rule like Spence.
2006-12-19 08:47:54 · answer #2 · answered by bourbon_on_my_cornflakes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-03 17:11:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are lots of successful people who came from lower tiered schools. You can likely assume those people had low grades (unless it was a low LSAT score) if they went to the lower tiered schools if they didn't get some huge scholarship.
Undergrad grades really don't predict how well a person will do in law school, let alone outside of it. The actual practice of law and law school are different enough.
2006-12-19 09:00:03 · answer #4 · answered by Linkin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-19 08:44:43 · answer #5 · answered by Guy N 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm about to. I have applied at several law schools. There are law schools on every tier, an undergrad GPA is not going to determine your drive to be successful though, you have to decide that.
2006-12-19 08:43:45 · answer #6 · answered by Local Celebrity 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
huh??? what's a 3.10 and a JD.. English person here??
2006-12-19 08:43:53 · answer #7 · answered by triptipper 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋