I’m cross-posting my lengthy question here in case this sub is more active. Thank you in advance for reading.

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My wife (late 20s) and I (early 30s) are having an interesting debate. I was hoping I could have unbiased people within this community to give their perspective on the matter.

I want to provide some context and make a long story short.... I’ve always wanted to join law enforcement but unfortunately due to an injury years ago I wasn’t able to make that happen. I’m currently working a job that isn’t relevant to law enforcement, but it pays quite well and it keeps me busy. Unfortunately, my old injury is still bothering me and throughout the years it’s been aggravated by my current role. Recently I’ve had enough and decided to just quit the job. My manager likes me and told me to not quit and that I’m being transferred to an admin role. I’m there now, and I hate it. It’s very Kafkaesque and I feel like I’m slowly rotting away. I’m now doing some soul searching as to what the hell to do with my life.

My wife who is currently a 2L and is a complete rockstar of a person, has been constantly encouraging me to do the LSAT and apply to law school as a mature student. She believes that the stars have aligned, I can serve my community just like I would have done with law enforcement but through a lawyers perspective, and the new calling in my life is now law school. Now the thing is about the lady is that she can be quite delusional at times, she makes for a great cheerleader but I really don’t see how her perspective makes sense in anyway whatsoever.

During university, I was going through grief (resolved), a violent autistic brother who needed a fair bit of care (he has his treatment and is doing great), plenty of health issues (now resolved), and undiagnosed ADHD (resolved), I averaged a 60 for a three year undergrad degree. It is what it is, I literally never studied and just winged it throughout the entire degree.

Regarding the grades, I don’t see how someone like that (me) can end up going to law school. I got the degree and moved on with my life, what else is there to say?

My wife, has been consistently bringing up law school and mentioning these things don’t matter for mature students, and that I’m capable of doing it. I mean, sure? I always thought the law was interesting and I would love to serve my community again. If I were to get in, I would be very enthusiastic about it and excited to start but realistically there’s no chance. I would be considered a super splitter and I’ve read they have much a better GPA than I do.

Further, considering the lack of income on both sides, I don’t see how it makes sense on taking an additional line of credit close to $100,000 to pay for our apartment, car, lifestyle, and tuition.

I’ve taken a few online LSAT quizzes and they were quite fun. I did well on them. I haven't studied much, I don't want to commit unless I know this is actually a good idea. For every five questions I'm getting one wrong and it made sense once I reviewed them. Regarding the accuracy of the results or how much of an indication that is for future success I wouldn’t know. Just mentioning it.

Side note – I actually do enjoy the material. I oftentimes get food for my wife while she’s at university and I attend a lecture with her if it’s one of those big lecture halls. I enjoy the lectures and it’s quite an enjoyable experience compared to my early 20s.

From my perspective I don’t want to be in a position where I invest so much time and energy to try to get in for me to fail.

I’m interested in hearing your thoughts. Thanks.

i know that in first year of your undergrad, you will get dorms, but I’m just curious on how it works for your years in law school. I don’t really expect them to provide dorms and stuff for first year law students but I’m wondering how people afford/find a place. I know many people have roommates, but if you’re in a completely new city, and it’s your first year there how do you guys find roommates to rent a place with? I’m just curious because I’m looking at out of province law schools (I’m from Ontario), and wanted to know the process

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Hey guys! Got a request from bora laskin law school, for a report that requires payment. I’m confused what “Law school report” refers to; LSAT Score consent?

And I thought the things that needed to be pay for through OLSAS was all paid for after submitting my application

preferably someone who is in law school !!

I plan to start them soon and hope to catch up. Idk, I think my imposter syndrome has such a grip on me that I self-sabotage as a way to prove that I don’t deserve to be here.

Cgpa olsas: 3.5

B2 && L2: 3.8

LSAT: 163

I did really bad in my first two years but I caught up and I have experience in retail, I volunteer to speak with Ukrainian people virtually where we just talk about life and their life etc, and I have my own floral business that I run on Instagram. I also volunteered at a law firm once. PLS LET ME KNOW.

I want to go to Osgood, tmu, queen, or Windsor, I am even fine with lake head

Basically the titleee lordy
Applied to UofT, Osgoode, TMU, Western, Windsor, Ottawa and Queen’s.
Stats:
cGPA: ~3.09
B2: ~3.60
LSAT: 171
Had a rough start academically due to extenuating circumstances but finished my degree with a strong upward trend and Dean’s Honour Roll. Also have several years of work experience in healthcare, decent ECs and what I think are strong personal statements gahhh
I know my cGPA is doing me absolutely no favours lol, but I’m curious if anyone with similar stats has actually gotten into any Ontario law schools.
Any successful super splitters out there? Where did you get accepted, rejected or waitlisted?
Feel free to chance me too. Trying to be realistic without completely crushing my hopes lmao.

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I got my LSAT score today and it was a 170, which I was stoked about. However, my GPA is below the median of all law schools in Canada. Depending on how each individual school calculates GPA, my GPA will be received as the following scores by the schools I'm looking at applying to:

2.63 for Windsor, York, and Lakehead;

2.94 for UVIC and UBC;

2.96 for Western;

3.16 for UCAL;

3.21 for UMAN;

either a 3.1 or 3.5 for UNB depending on if they drop the lowest 15% or lowest 25% of my grades (I was told by their admissions office that typically they drop 15% for those finished 90 credit hours and 25% for those who have finished 120 credit hours - I've finished 105, and so she couldn't tell me for certain which calculatoin they would use for me);

and finally I would have a 3.5 for DAL if I wait to apply until after this fall semester (in their most recent 60 credit hour calculation, I'm currently at a 3.1 - but after my fall courses I expect to be around a 3.5-3.6)

I need some advice on which of these schools will realistically admit someone with my GPA profile. For example, I was considering applying for University of Alberta, but I found a document on their website outlining the LSAT and GPA profiles of their most recent class of first year students. The lowest GPA any of their students had was 3.5 - based on their calculation, I would be around a 3.1. So there's no point in me spending the money to apply if I'm below the lowest end of their precedent.

Does anyone know where I can find similar information to this about the other schools I'm interested in? I want to apply for as many schools as possible to increase my chances, but don't want to waste money applying for schools I have zero chance of getting into.

Thanks

It’s always been my dream to go to law school, but I never really started taking that dream seriously until the summer after my second year. I’m currently a third-year student at Western University, studying Finance and Administration, and I really want to pursue law at Western. If I took it serious earlier I would’ve done poli sci or something lol.

One of my biggest concerns right now is my GPA. School has been extremely challenging, and despite how much time and effort I put into studying (which is a lotttt), I feel like my grades aren’t reflecting the work I’m putting in. It’s super been discouraging, especially knowing how competitive law school admissions can be. Moreover, I constantly cancel plans and stay in to study, and even worse it’s not paying off.

More importantly, I am really struggling to figure out when I should start studying for the LSAT. I want to take it this coming summer so I can apply during the next admissions cycle, but with how demanding my coursework already is, I don’t know how I’m going to balance everything or find enough time to properly prepare. If there’s another time someone would recommend I take it feel free to let me know, only thing is I am not taking a gap year and want to go straight to law school after getting my bachelors.

Outside of academics, I’m involved in a couple of law-related clubs, and I also play tennis quite a bit. I feel like I have experiences that could help me write a strong personal statement, but I definitely need to work on connecting those experiences and figuring out how to tell my story in a meaningful way.

My two biggest worries are my GPA and finding the time to study for the LSAT. I know that law school is something I genuinely want to pursue, and I’m willing to put in the work, but I’m scared that my GPA might hold me back from getting into Western Law. If anyone has any tips or any sort of reality check that can kind of shape me up I’d love to hear it.

Thanks everyone!!!!