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180kickflip wrote:As an AA male with similar stats but worse softs, id say you're in most places. In at NYU, GULC, UVA. Likely but maybe only 60% at B and P...B cuz they seem to prefer high GPAs and only likely at P cuz they YP like crazy without a legit why penn. I'd say likely out at Columbia because the #s are still low for them, and almost a Hail Mary at HYS because of the low GPA and increasing applicants. I haven't seen anyone with your (essentially our) numbers get into HYS for a couple cycles and I'm sure a few had great softs.

Totally not saying you can't still snag one, but I'd rather give you low expectations that you end up happily surpassing than promising the world like the "black by the numbers" thread just to see you disappointed to fall short as a "HYS lock"

On a more positive note...I'm totally certain you'll get multiple six figure t14 scholarships to negotiate with, and that may be more valuable than the top acceptances anyway

In either case, it'd be great if you could add your (I'm sure to be amazing) acceptances to the cycle results thread (once it's up) so future cycle URM applicants have more data points to use =)

StringerSoprano_6062 wrote:I am an AA male with a 3.3 GPA and a 168 LSAT. I am currently a senior at a tier I LAC (Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore etc). I am the president of the student body, the editor and chief of a legal journal on my campus, I was a legislative intern for a Senator this past summer, and I am the founder/president of a local non profit. My GPA is not as high as it could be because I had to miss about 5 weeks of my sophomore year due to personal/family circumstances--I wrote a GPA addendum to clarify this.

I have already been accepted to Duke via PT and was awarded a full scholarship at a local University in MD. I know that my GPA is low but I received 4 letters of recommendations, three from professors and one from a high ranking administrator of my college so I am hoping that they can shed light on my academic performance in their classes. I put together what I hope was a strong application and sent it out early--11/2. What do you think my chances are at the schools below? Thanks in advance for the advice

Harvard
Columbia
Yale
Stanford
NYU
UPenn
UVA
Berkley
Vanderbilt
UCLA
Georgetown

AaronCarter wrote: where did you end up?