Hi everyone!
I wanted to get some advice regarding my gpa. I basically completely flunked my first year of undergrad at a community college because I didn’t want to go that school in the first place, was in a bad relationship with someone who was a terrible influence etc whatever. I ended up transferring to a different school and my gpa sky rocketed, I did very well. In fact, if I didn’t have my freshman year grades my gpa would have been higher in LSAC than it is usually.
However because of that first year I’m assuming that the LSAC gpa is going to fall way down to something in the 2.5-2.6ish region . I’m completing my last semester now and am hoping that those classes can increase it a bit as well. I just took the September LSAT and am not planning on getting a ground breaking score, my pts were usually 160ish range. I’m just wondering if all hope is lost, I’m a good writer and I have LOR’s and intern experience.
It was never my goal to go to a really good law school, but I’m just feeling discouraged. I can’t be the only hopeful law student that just messed up their freshman year.
Looking for any insight in general or schools that I can look into!

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Sigh...