maleficent

Back when I was graduating college (from a pretty good university in the Northeast) i was seriously considering law school. After several conversations with daddy-dearest (a lawyer) and several of his judge and lawyer friends, (and this was back in the mid 80s - which is a different time and place now) that when applying to law schools, you really want to go to the best possible school, not the school you can afford (Loans and such can be paid back your legal education is not something you want to cheap out on.)

I was a double major in math and finance and graduated with a 3.8 average, with LSAT scores in the top 10 percent of all people taking the tests. I applied to Harvard, Columbia, and Stanford as my top three choices... I got rejected at my top three choices... I got into my fallbacks, but at that point, I wasn't sure that the return on my investment would be there. (On further review, I sometimes wish I had gone to Law School instead of dropping out of an Engineering program.)

Long story short -- Choice of school matters especially depending on what type of law you want to practice, better schools will get you in the front door of a lot of law firms rather than Podunk University's school of law.

As for your grades right now -- your GPA is good but not great, you've got 3 semesters to do something about it. You also might want to take a look at the courses you are taking, if you are taking Easier courses, you might want to bulk up a little and drop those and take some harder stuff....And really bust your butt when it comes to the LSATs -- those matter...

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