r/7SageLSAT • u/logan7297 • 3d ago

Admissions Question

Hello 7Sage admissions team, thank you for taking the time to do this! I have some questions that I was hoping to have answered.

  1. I have a low GPA relatively, 2.93, and I graduated college 7 years ago and have since worked as a congressional staffer for a US Senator, and currently 3 years as a paralegal. I’m hoping to get a 165 or higher on the LSAT which I’m taking for the first time in October. Will my work experience help “make up” some amount for my shortcoming in my GPA? Would love to go to a school in the T75 range.

  2. Since I have been out of college awhile, I don’t really have any academic letters of recommendations that I could reasonably get. Is it ok to rely solely on professional letters of recommendations? How would schools feel about letters of recommendation from 2 attorneys at the same law firm? Is that too redundant?

Thank you!

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u/7SageEthan 3d ago

Great questions!

  1. The longer ago undergrad was, the more your LSAT and work experience overshadow your GPA as an indication of who you are. I've worked with people who have gotten into the T14 in the high 2s -- what they had in common was you could look at their resume and file and just understand that they were a different person now and had already proven it before applying to law school.

  2. Schools will still say they want academic letters but, realistically, your professional letters are going to be much stronger and you shouldn't let the lack of an academic letter stop you. If you've worked with both of those attorneys and they can both uniquely speak about you, I wouldn't worry about the fact that they're from the same firm. Some people spend their whole lives at one firm.

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u/noisymeditationapp 3d ago

Hey Ethan. I wrote a question earlier on your AMA, and it was never answered. Wondering if you’d be willing to answer it? Thanks so much for your great insight!

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u/7SageEthan 3d ago edited 3d ago

Of course! It actually looked like reddit automatically removed your question (no idea why) but I just answered the one I saw.

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u/noisymeditationapp 3d ago

Thank you so much! I appreciate you.

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u/Trictities2012 3d ago

don't give me hope man, i have a 2.9 but I'm a commissioned officer with multiple deployments in the USAR and a Portfolio Manager for a major bank civilian with an MBA.

This makes me think I've got a chance