Shoot your shot, put good essays together, and sell yourself to the max (and always, ALWAYS negotiate scholarships)!
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Admitted to Boston Universityi am EXTREMELY debt averse, i think paying tens of thousands in tuition for grad school, especially when i intend to enter a very low paying field (public defense) is a fucking racket. so while i’m disappointed by not getting the Toll at Penn, I feel very good about turning down my other offers for a full ride at…
To all my low-income, first-generation black applicants: Trust yourself! Do not be afraid to ask for what you deserve. I know my success relative to the circumstances of my peers puts me in that top tier. I asked for a fee waiver from every school and a CAS waiver from many. I asked for RUBY I asked for Mordecai I…
take that gap year(s) & put thought and effort into your writing elements!
It all turns out okay in the end.
Super Splitter, non-traditional. My resume includes an MBA on which I received a ~3.50 GPA, as well as a hardship-based explanation for my low uGPA. I focused on my post-undergrad career (mid/high-level management and engineering positions in a fortune 250 company, volunteer experience, graduate work) in my essays…
Hello future splitter law applicants (if you ever see this). I’m a first-generation college student, and aside from that, am not in any way a URM. I only wrote a “why X” for Duke and wrote the “unpopular opinion” optional essay for Georgetown. In retrospect, I wish I had applied ED to GULC, and wrote more “why X”…
Message me on Reddit u/LawAndOreo if you have any questions! Looking to help as many people as I can!
-applied for PI programs/schollys at all schools, why x at Cal, top ten list @ Georgetown -one year out of undergrad, strong internship experiences during college, year abroad and foreign language fluency, research and student awards, currently working in a law firm -dream is international public interest work,…
I used admissions consulting services (btw I would not recommend this. Find a friend to proofread.)
Strong essays are worth spending the extra hours/days on- even if you need to delay submitting your apps a week or two. Your LORs are much stronger coming from people who know you, not someone with high-status (think a partner at a law firm) who you barely work with. Apply early if you can, but just make sure you’re…
Have a compelling reason for why you want to go to law school (whatever that might be), and show it in your application! I also wouldn’t apply to 20 schools like I did – a few safeties is alright, but I think what I did was overkill. I attribute part of my success to my decision to write very specific why X essays…
Blanket the T-20 to humble yourself :) Just relying on God. Hopefully a T-20 is part of his plan
I went to an utterly irrelevant state undergraduate institution and did virtually nothing of note after graduating, but I had an (apparently) interesting story of self growth to tell of my 5 years post college. Study hard for the LSAT and write your ass off on the essays and you’ll surprise yourself.
making my profile public to help anyone who has the same stats at me! i stopped recording scholarship amounts after i got my award to the school i will be committing to. i didn’t remain on any waitlists. best advice is to NOT apply to as many safety schools as me; it was a waste of time and money and provided no…
My best advice to splitters, beyond having a high LSAT score, is to write every essay for the school you’re applying to, even the optional ones. It shows the school you’re serious about them; plus, any opportunity to showcase who you are will put you ahead over other applicants who didn’t write those optional essays…
If you are at all considering public interest, please read into your school’s LRAP.
VIRGIN SHOULD GO TO UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA virgin actually got waitlisted sorry :/ 2e
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