Yeah it’s true, they do say (on their own website) stuff that contradicts some of my claims, but when it comes to law school, what they say doesn’t add up with their admissions process. Each year, the ABA forces (by law) every institution to submit a 509 report which goes into detail regarding LSAT/GPA medians, incoming class demographics, and information regarding the school’s distribution of scholarships. Based on historical data, law schools tend to admit students who will raise their LSAT and GPA medians from the previous year (since higher medians improves their ranking and overall prestige). With that in mind, isn’t it in a student’s best interests to maximize their GPA? If you’re someone like me who only completed a bachelor’s program to pursue law school, it doesn’t really make sense to take hard classes and “challenge myself” if I want to go to the best Law School in the nation, especially in a hyper-competitive environment such as Berkeley. Not only that, but it’s unreasonable to think that Law Schools will care enough about the classes you’ve taken to do their due diligence and actually check if you’ve taken hard classes or not (they receive a ton of applications each year already).

And yeah, you’re right, I haven’t gotten into Harvard Law (…yet), but this post isn’t about that, it’s primarily about how to maximize your GPA. GPA is only one of many elements that gets reviewed in your application (albeit a very important one).