Auch Auch Auch
I've got this massive headache since coming back from my snowboarding trip today. It's probably because I didn't get much sleep at the cabin. For some reasons I can't sleep in a stranger’s bed or in any other bed that isn't my own. I probably got about 3 hours of sleep last night...but besides that the snowboarding was great, I actually didn't take any pictures because I was concentrating on just riding. I wanted to go back to the mountain earlier this morning for a couple of runs but nobody else wanted to go with me so I was practically on my own on that one.
I met an interesting character during in this trip. Well this gentleman and I began talking and he brought up law school and how competitive it is. Well that got me going since that is my interest, now this character explains to me that he graduated from Stanford University with an electrical engineering degree with a 3.5 gpa. He explains to me that he applied to a lot of law schools and none of them accepted him. He is now working on his PhD at Stanford. Well I took this very discouraging at first, soon after I asked him more questions and he told me that he had applied to a lot of the top first tier law school. I was baffled because I couldn’t figure out why an electrical engineering graduate from Stanford with a good GPA could not get accepted to a top law school…Well I still don’t have an answer to this but I’ll come up with one.
I met an interesting character during in this trip. Well this gentleman and I began talking and he brought up law school and how competitive it is. Well that got me going since that is my interest, now this character explains to me that he graduated from Stanford University with an electrical engineering degree with a 3.5 gpa. He explains to me that he applied to a lot of law schools and none of them accepted him. He is now working on his PhD at Stanford. Well I took this very discouraging at first, soon after I asked him more questions and he told me that he had applied to a lot of the top first tier law school. I was baffled because I couldn’t figure out why an electrical engineering graduate from Stanford with a good GPA could not get accepted to a top law school…Well I still don’t have an answer to this but I’ll come up with one.
written by Mr. Vasquez at 10:51 p. m.
2 Comments:
Depends on how old this "gentlemen" is and when he applied.
There might be a few explanations:
1. Stanford was embroiled in an inflated GPA controversy a while back. They don't fail students (lowest was a "B". So a 3.5 GPA from Stanford might seem as high as it sounds.)
2. Law school's a lot more competitive now than back then (starting 2001 since the internet bubble bursted, a lot of engineers & programmers got into law).
3. Depends on how he did on the LSAT. Most engineers I know are strong with math and science, but they're not as good at takeing the LSAT than someone with strong reading comprehension & analytical skills. On the other hand, engineers probably do better on the Game Section than other people. But again, this is merely a generalization and not an accurate depiction of each & every case.
There's also the fact that law schools only look at GPA, not what major the GPA is in.
For example, I had a 3.6 GPA in Chemical Engineering, arguably one of the hardest degrees to get (I say arguably, because every engineer thinks *their* major is the hardest) at a very good engineering school (probably not Stanford good, but good nonetheless) and I had a very good LSAT score. Still, nearly every highly ranked school rejected me (although a few waitlisted me).
Unfortunately, my 3.6 GPA could not compete with a 4.0 in basket weaving when you only look at the number.
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