here is my daughter's response. i hope it's helpful and can answer some of your questions.

My best advice: call the admissions offices of all of the law schools that you are potentially considering. They will be able to give you their take on it, as all schools are different. Although law schools do base a lot of the admissions process on your LSAT and GPA that is certainly not the end of the inquiry. Each school has an index score that they use where they assign a certain weight to your GPA and a certain weight to your LSAT (usually more), they take yoru scores multiplied by the weight and add them together and then you get a number. If you are a certain score you are automatically admitted. If your score is too low, you are automatically rejected. If you are anywhere in the middle (which is the VAST majority) your file is individually considered. In doing so they read your personal statement etc. Law school admissions officers seriously considering obstacles people have faced etc. They really, really try to create a class that is diverse in many ways: race, age, and most importantly life experience because they think that it making the classroom more enriching when people are able to hear several viewpoints. They always give you the opportunity to explain your life, and they genuinely want to know, either through your personal statement or a separate portion of the application. The best website I can recommend is www.lsac.org. It is the official ABA site and has detailed information about admissions and every ABA accredited school.

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Dawn
Taking the Road Less Traveled
The Journey of A Thousand Miles Starts with The First CLEP
BS-Psychology - Excelsior College
Enrolled in the School of Business, BS in Accounting
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72 CLEP Credits, 21 DSST Credits, 25 ECE Credits (Including Inf Lit), 6 TESC Credits, 2 FEMA Credits = 126 Total
Withholding 6 Credits for Accounting = 120 for Psychology
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