Hi Cortez,
Thanks for the message! Let's break the analysis into two parts, work experience and GPA:
- Work Experience
Being an Army officer will serve you well in law school applications. It has responsibility, discipline, organization, and commitment built right into it. So, this is a plus right out of the gate, and its a great thing to have on your resume.
GPA
This is obviously the point of concern, and I can see you know that. There is good news here, though. In law school admissions, your LSAT score outweighs your GPA (this has always been amazing to me, but that's the way that it is; 4 hours of testing outweighs 4 years of schooling). Thus, despite the 2.0, if you can post a sufficiently high LSAT score, you still have a shot at Houston. How good are your chances? Let's take a look.
LSAC, the makers of the LSAT, produce a GPA/LSAT Calculator (https://officialguide.lsac.org/release/ ... fault.aspx) that allows you to input various numbers and receive an estimate of admission chances. Here's what they say for Houston:
- GPA = 2.0
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160 LSAT = between 0 and 10% chance of admission.
165 LSAT = between 6 and 32% chance of admission.
170 LSAT = between 45 and 85% chance of admission.
175 LSAT = between 89 and 99% chance of admission.
So, you can see that a score in the upper 160 to low 170s would give you a very reasonable chance at admission. In other words, the 2.0 isn't helping you, but with a strong enough LSAT score you can overcome the GPA.
If I were in your shoes, I'd take a practice LSAT and see how I did. If you do that and come back here and let me know your results, I'll give you an evaluation of your prospects for increasing your score (we can get a decent sense of the type of improvement you can make based on your initial score and the composition of that score by section).
Please let me know if that helps. Thanks!
