ZoeOpalRose '23–'24 app cycle Class of 2027 class year

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This is going to be long, and sort of sappy, but I’ve worked with some of the top corporate lawyers in their field, public interest lawyers, judges, and justices. The one thing I learned is that you can go to a barely accredited school, or one of the best in the country, but what makes you successful isn’t the school you go to, it’s YOU. YOU are what makes your career successful, and I believe in you! It is so easy to think that if you don’t get into HYS, that your life is over. However, one of the most incredible judges, turned justices, that I know, did not go to any of those schools. I know a judge that didn’t go to an accredited law school, and had to take the baby bar. She’s been practicing now for 30+ years. I know attorneys that are well-respected in their field that went to T2 and T3 schools. At the end of the day, you are what makes you successful, and whichever school accepts you, is going to be so lucky to have you.

Another thing that I think may be helpful is that at the end of the day, you don’t know what’s going through the mind of admissions officers. Additionally, admissions officers know their best and are trying to create the best class for their school. There are any number of reasons that you didn’t get into a particular school, and the vast majority of those reasons have to do with either the admissions officer themselves, or the school, not you. I went to an admissions webinar for a certain school that drops in and out of the T14, and in the webinar, they admitted that it is possible that something you write or do in your application could piss off the admissions officer, and that could be the difference between your R/WL/A. Don’t take a decision you don’t like personally.

Now I’ll write why I applied to certain schools and what I did for the school, as well as whether I was admitted: