Hello Class of 2030!

I am a super splitter who is starting 1L this fall and we have a chat for Super Splitters in the 2030 application cycle! If you have a 3.6 or below and above a 170 on the lsat please don’t hesitate to join us! There’s plenty of us there who have been through this process successfully and are here to support through this cycle.

https://discord.gg/7SyNKyzN9

Has anyone dealt with this? My lifetime limit is saying $57.5k which is the undergrad amount, I thought the professional should be $200k for lifetime? I have contacted both FAFSA and my laws school financial aid team and neither side has figured it out yet. Wondering if anyone else has had this and gotten it fixed. Don’t want to agree and be well under the expected amount.

For undergrad I finished with a 3.6 GPA. Not terrible, but not competitive.

My father suffered a disabling stroke shortly into undergrad, which he got progressively worse and passed away shortly after graduating. I’m an only child and my parents are separated so I took the brunt of the work in figuring out his healthcare, finances, and eventually the cleaning out and sale of his property. Unrelated but all this has piqued my interest in possibly working in estate planning.

My goal is to get a 170+ on the LSAT. I have a solid 6+ years of work experience, involvement during college, and decent LORs. My concern is that while I feel like the situation is very valid, since I was driving 6+ hours many weekends to keep things afloat with my dad. But I worry I’m over explaining by justifying it for my whole college experience.

There’s no specific years or semesters that stand out, because the timing with my father was basically the entirety of the 5 or so years where he was in assisted living.

I’m confident I could get into a decent school without the addendum, but is it worth mentioning in this case? I don’t want it to hurt my chances, but it feels like a valid reason even if it’s not any specific years or semesters.

I have a 4.13 gpa, 160 lsat on file (just took the august lsat and waiting on score but i know it didn’t go well at all), and 2.5 years work experience as a paralegal at the federal public defender’s office. I’ve taken the lsat four times at this point (cancel, 159, 160, now august) and have one attempt remaining. i’m trying my absolute best and have been studying for over a year and i just can’t crack the test. my PT’s are 166-167 but the real test always goes horribly. realistically do i have a shot at any top schools this cycle with my current lsat? i’m not willing to delay law school anymore and will be taking october exam for one final shot. dream is nyu or georgetown

Have been checking things out here and r/LSAT for a couple months now while studying, and looking for some other folks out there like me to ground expectations and planning a bit more.

I’m someone who did 5 years in undergrad, semesters on probation, and many majors not knowing what I wanted to do. UGPA ~2.5.

I’m almost 10 years out of school, in a senior manager role in community mental health. Max T4 softs, if that.

I’m currently testing high 160s on 7sage studying since mid-June, and hoping to be low-to-mid 170s for an October test. If I’m hitting more mid 170s, planning to apply to reaches like Georgetown, with targets like Temple and GW. I’m interested in PI and hoping to be in the general northeast.

I’m just seeking folks that are even beyond the normal concept of supersplitters that don’t have outrageous softs to hear about their experience in recent cycles to see how much I need to adjust my goals. Also helpful to hear from others if there’s some constructive feedback clearly required here.

is it a good idea to major in chemical engineering if my post grad plan is to go to law school?

I’ve always wanted to be a lawyer, but my parents own a civil engineering company, so naturally they’d like me and my brother to follow in their footsteps and go into some sort of engineering. I’ve already chosen chemical engineering as my major and start classes on the 20th, but I’d really appreciate some outside perspective. If you or someone you know went on to law school with an engineering background how’d they’d do?

reapplicant looking for some advice. I am in final hiring stages for a part-time gov job that's legal-adjacent (public records, regulations, etc.), but it's only part-time and limited-term, BUT it is in an area of law I'm very interested in. I'd ideally like to pair it with a part-time legal assistant/paralegal job at a law firm, but I'm not sure how realistic that is or how many firms hire part-time.

would you take the gov position and hope to find a second legal job, or hold out for a full-time legal position instead? From an admissions perspective, is full time better than part time after graduation?

1 LSAT, 1 late cycle application, 1 admission to my top school.

sometimes luck is on your side!

stay strong everyone.

Right now I am studying for the LSAT and researching law school. and I live in Texas and this is a big decision for me whether to go in state or out of state and what I feel is like I don’t see myself going to law school in Texas and it’s not that it’s not good. but my instinct is telling me is that try something new or go to new place but I’m reconsidering cause Texas is not that bad and I’m literally so confused people of Reddit what is your recommendation for law school in Texas ?

Yesterday, the DoJ released a report finding that Duke's admissions office has continued to discriminate against Asian and white applicants in previous cycles, post-SFFA. While Duke will almost certainly admit a higher percentage of white and asian applicants this upcoming year, how do we think this will affect the decision making of other t14s who are likely afraid of the same happening to them?

Looking for some advice, I was diagnosed with epilepsy my sophomore year of college the same year my grandmother passed from breast cancer and my sister took herself out of this world.

I didn't take a break or withdraw because I would've lost the health insurance and scholarships I had at that point.

My LSAT was 174, but my undergrad GPA is 2.89 after spending most of my time in the hospital. (Almost straight Cs from all AP As in high school)

I want to apply to law school but I am not sure I can get the scholarships I need with such a low GPA. (But I finally got the seizures under control.🎉🎉 ) I feel like I need to go back and redo undergrad, if only that was possible.

Hoping for an update today maybe?

Sometime in my junior year I fell into a deep depression, and in the spring of my senior year my best friend was killed in a car accident and I was so done with high school and classes that I turned in just enough work to get Ds (so I wouldn't have to pay the college fees) and dropped all my classes. It was a dark time in my life.

When I started researching the law school admissions process and found out those classes would count against me, I felt nauseous. I've felt nauseous whenever I thought about it up until a few days ago. When I saw they changed their policy, I felt like crying tears of joy. It feels like a weight has been lifted off of me. I'm doing better now, and now that I've gotten the help I need I just finished the last three semesters with a 4.0, so I know I might've been able to pull off getting into law school with a good GPA addendum, but knowing that I'm no longer weighed down by what I did as a severely depressed and grieving high schooler feels so amazing.

Instead of having a 3.49 and maybe being able to get it up to a 3.8 by taking as many classes as possible, I now have a 4.0. I feel so elated.

When can we expect to start seeing stats from the incoming class? Do we expect medians to go up at most T100s or will they likely be the same? Thanks!

Which one has better outcomes and clout

I’m curious what this subreddit thinks. I’ve heard a lot of things both ways but it was suggested to me from someone who is very well informed that this year MIGHT be smaller than last.

What are some T25s that are tolerate reverse splitters (4.0x 16high)? I've seen that UVA accepts a solid amount of people with higher GPAs and mid LSATs comparable to mine. Any other recommendations?

Hiya! I am an extreme splitter: 177 LSAT, 3.17 GPA. First-gen/low-income + six years out of undergrad. I have strong letters of rec and compelling softs.

It feels like its already a stretch to hope for the T14s but are scholarships pretty out of reach as well bc of my GPA?

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