…you are, it’s been working in my favor so far. Own your softs and speak their truth to power - if you did a lot to get here, this is the time to show it!
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Non-KJD applicant with unique softs and personal experiences around music and healthcare. Undergrad in music performance and post-bacc program in medical science. Also had an MBA at time of application. Looking at IP law (with contacts in boutique IP law firms making my law school decision less consequential than it…
GRE 320 GPA 3.69 2020–21 cycle
softs - Ivy league undergrad, prestigious academic scholarship winner, D1 varsity athlete, bilingual, double major applied GRE only because i decided to apply too late to take the LSAT, still wanted to throw my hat in the ring. Plan to reapply with LSAT next cycle if nothing bites
You are a tier 1 soft in my heart
…and Mary and NDLS by doing so, despite my GPA and lack of softs
White female, 2 years work, Columbia undergrad. Softs: Unusual international work experience, speaks many languages, LGBT
…as you can would be my biggest recommendation. put T3 softs as I’d won a prestigious Man of the Year award at my undergraduate school, available for all students by nomination. Maybe a stretch but I felt it fit well enough there, combined with my other professional and volunteer history
Wrote why x for every school. T5 undergrad. Softs are internships/ugrad clerkships with state circuit court judges & DOJ, and WE post-undergrad is an administration position not in law. Tough cycle, but life goes on.
Would classify myself as a 3.5 softs, I have won a national student writing competition for a sustainability policy paper. I already have an MPA and have been working in government work for 3 years. My Schools GPA was on a 4.0 scale and while my undergrad GPA was not good on paper I still graduated with honors. This…
…statement (undocumented immigrant, mild poverty). my softs are ok: number of internships+ jobs (city gov, state gov, non-profit) focused on immigrant rights started a non-profit startup this past summer to feed immigrant families during COVID.
Tier 3 Softs: First-gen, low-income; prestigious merit scholarship; T10 Undergrad Submitted diversity statement and optional essays. Applied later in cycle (December-January apps)
read international justice lit to cope 10/10 would recommend (im going ma in polisci > law school and it really shows 🤡) regarding my softs, i did a 4+1 program, and graduated w a BA in french, a BA in political science, and an MA in political science at 20 ++ renegotiated my scholarship amount at Duke from $111,000…
Have spent the last 7 years working in secondary and higher education. Current director although split between T2 and T3 softs. Have a Masters in Education with a 4.0 (hopefully covering for my mediocre undergraduate GPA). Essays are thoughtful but probably not on par with some of the top writers applying in this…
i have no wisdom. this cycle literally broke me lol my softs are honestly like 3.5 but that might be an exaggeration. going to pretend i am special For anyone curious about my WL —> A at Arizona, I got the admit email about 2.5 weeks after getting the WL email (4/15–> 4/29)
LSAT 171 GPA 3.91 2020–21 cycle
Attending Washington University in St. Louis
Combination of T2/T3 softs with relevant work experience in a niche interest. Applied as soon as applications opened for each school and received decisions during first wave except for NYU, Yale, and Stanford.
Softs: Political Science undergrad specializing in East Asian Foreign policy& Philosophy minor at UC Irvine. Published undergraduate research on the implications of COVID-19 in East Asia. Grew up with a single navy veteran parent. Struggled to overcome undiagnosed ADHD until the end of high school. Three recs: 1st…
I have really weird softs, the kind that one admissions professional might see and say “how unique, that’s a great foundation for a lawyer” and someone else could easily say “this means absolutely nothing”. I put it in as 3, probably it’s really a 4, but the right reader might have given me a lot more credit.
LSAT 174 GPA 3.47 2020–21 cycle
Attending University of California—Los Angeles
Weak tier 3 or strong tier 4 softs, so I rounded up. STEM Major, grade deflated school. Too bad none of that helps :)
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