Can I get into grad school even though I screwed up in college?
SeizeTheDay, I have spent a dozen years involved in, to a greater or lesser extent, or at least closely observing, the law, med school, and business school applications of scores (if not hundreds, by now) of family, friends, co-workers and acquaintences, the vast majority of whom shared the same common goal (any top law or b-school, any med school, period, as the case was) and many of whom had a GPA problem to overcome. However, the analysis I make can be verified by spending some time on the appropriate bulletin boards (Vault.com, and the BusinessWeek bulletin boards are a good place to start), as well as consulting the admissions statistics published by the law school and business school admissions-director associations, and by consulting the statements of admission policies and GPA/board score spreads on the schools’ websites. With all due respect to everyone you have spoken to regarding law school, they are simply incorrect. Every school that is not Yale provisionally determines th
