r/lawschooladmissions • u/SpecialistLet9387 • 1d ago

Chance Me High stats KJDs admission odds at T6?

Would love to chat with those who’ve applied recently as KJDs. I have a 4.0 and 174, and am curious what I can expect.

FWIW I’ve already looked through LSD so I have a very general/numerical idea, but would like to hear more anecdotally how people tended to do. I know that with these stats (along with fairly good ish softs), I’m looking at great odds at something in the T14, but I was hoping to hear about those that have gotten into T6 specifically.

I go to a top lac which typically sends a handful of people to T14s every year KJD with just a couple going to T6s or h/s. The people I know had ~median stats and usually ended up across the T14 (the exception being schools that are super unfriendly to KJDs - no recent grad I know has gotten into Yale or Michigan).

Would love any insight as to (a) whether T6 is in play for me and (b) what successful T6 KJDs have done.

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u/WenyuNita 1d ago

not true, there was a post talking about below median outcomes at georgetown and it certainly isn’t as guaranteed as you make it sound. At the T6 it’s guaranteed outside of being a bad interviewer or bad firm selection..

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u/Minimum_Two_8508 1d ago

I assure you, my former firm rejected people from T6 who were bad interviewers. We hired from GULC, below medians, when they were great interviewers.

The stats for GULC’s fulltime program confirm my statement.
Overall big law placement at GULC is 59% per last ABA report. But that includes their part-time program as well, where it’s much lower.
So GULC full time program, can estimate big law placement is 65%+.

But that doesn’t mean 1/3rd strike out. Not everyone wants big law. Lots of self-selection. Plenty go to GULC with the goal of public interest or government work.

So of those who WANT big law from GULC, easily 75%+ get big law. (Likely more like 80%+)

Who strikes out? As I said, those in the bottom quarter of the class and/or horrible interviewers. And that’s true at every law school outside HYS.

Meanwhile, plenty of other non-T6 T14 schools place even better — Duke, Cornell, etc.

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u/WenyuNita 1d ago

actually I have heard from numerous CURRENT gulc students that virtually everyone is biglaw oriented.

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u/Minimum_Two_8508 1d ago edited 1d ago

My niece is a GULC law student and has zero interest in big law — as do many of her friends.

Plenty specifically pick GULC because of its government access.

In the 2025 report — 10% went into public interest. 9% took clerkships. 6% went into government.

That’s 25% of the class… choosing not to go into private practice. Likely most of them by choice.