Law Students

Law School Admissions: Willing to Make a Deal?

By AustinGroothuis

I've always been an advocate of telling future law students never to assume or count on the ability to transfer up to a higher reputation law school.

It takes top grades/high class rank to transfer up to a higher ranked school most of the time, so you never where you'll end up in the class rankings among your peers with basically everyone gunning for the top of the class. Assume you will graduate from the school at which you start.

But Prelaw Advisor writes about a deal between a waitlisted applicant and a law school that created a creative way to almost assure a transfer up: if the student got better than a 3.0 at another law school, the highly ranked law school would accept that student as a transfer going into 2L.

Pretty nice deal for the student! Although it's too bad that schools aren't able to take chances on an applicant like this out of the gate because of the strict focus on LSAT numbers.

I don't know how prevalent offers like this are, but if you can work a deal like this with a law school at which you have been waitlisted, especially if one of your top choices, you should take it. At which point the prospects of transferring would become a much more likely.

Full post as published by CALI's Pre-Law Blog on February 04, 2008 (boomark / email).