Take as long as you need to achieve your dream LSAT score. I studied on and off for three years, with lots of experiences in between before I received my score and it was totally worth it. My three major considerations were: Employment opportunities Scholarship provided Location (big city preferably) Overall, this…
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Admitted to George Washington UniversityI don’t think it helped that I applied early - the cycle was slow and I heard back later than others with better stats. If you’re debating taking the LSAT again, take the LSAT again. Get money not waitlists. I suffered from having an international gpa (see lowball $cholly offers from Brooklyn and Cardozo) and a…
Don’t refresh this page every 45 minutes, they’ll email or call you. Just turn email notifications on. Good Luck!
reapplicant from last cycle. was waitlisted to 12 schools (ranked from penn to american), rejected to two (harvard and fordham), and accepted at lewis & clark with a small scholarship. after talking with current students in public interest they convinced me not to attend. i applied w same gpa but a 164 lsat. retook…
WRITE ALL OPTIONAL ESSAYS AND APPLY AS EARLY AS YOU CAN! Worked as a legal assistant in my final semester of undergrad and through the summer. Planned on waiting out all T14 waitlists until the end, but by early August they did not look promising so I requested deferral offers. Michigan responded back within one…
APPLY EARLY! I submitted all applications except for Penn and NYU in early September. While I had strong personal statements and wrote optional ‘Why X’ essays for Berk, Duke, Mich, UVA, Georgetown, GW, and Vanderbilt, I think being in the first wave of applicants in the early fall helped me stand out. I also highly…
Don’t be afraid to fail. For the longest time a fear of failure ruled my life. If I hadn’t overcome that, I wouldn’t be here today.
Good luck yall! For my engineers out there applying with lower GPAs, just nail the LSAT…I know you can. Also go where you feel like you are most appreciated!
Don’t have dreams, don’t have hopes. Just accept defeat and concede your future to what little you deserve. Shoot your shot, but don’t create mental space for those possibilities. Someone else will always be better. Someone else will get the chances and experiences you won’t. That you don’t deserve. Other people…
BU status date change 12/12/2022 w/o status change, status date changed again 12/17/2022 with prompt of “your status is now complete and waiting to be reviewed” etc etc gone from the top of the status page, 12/19/2022 status date change w/ substatus “complete” added and “your status is now complete” etc etc back at…
write all optional essays spend time cultivating a strong narrative connect with current law students at the law school you’re applying to if you use reddit, use it with discretion attend info sessions for the schools you’re applying to write your essays the summer before so you have time to edit them and get them…
Feeling overwhelmed? Take a break from this site and Reddit. Touch grass. You’ll feel better. I promise :) If your school does need based aid PLEASE apply for it! I thought I would get nothing but USC threw 2k/year my way. Things that I thought were worth it: 7Sage one-time personal statement edit- LSAT Demon (Their…
Reapplicant from the ’20-21 cycle, waitlisted or rejected at every school I applied to. Reapplying to the same schools, plus added Stanford, Columbia, Chicago, NYU, and Penn to shoot my shot with a new and improved LSAT score. Georgetown date disappeared the same day as waitlist on 12/3 Went Duke UR3 on 12/7 Chicago…
myriad C&F disclosures from several years ago when I had an underdeveloped prefrontal cortex 2020-21: (KJD) applied late November and December to the T14 + BU, Texas, WashU, GW, BC- A: none WL: UPenn, Duke, Michigan, Northwestern, GULC, WashU, Vanderbilt, Texas, BU, GW R: HLS, CLS, NYU, BC 2021-22: Why X for…
Hey you, you’re finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there.
They can’t all reject me right….right? HARVARD- DA FIRST R BBY HIT ME WITH IT GW THEY TOOK ME- 1/13/2022 VANDY- LETS GOOOOOOO-1/19/2022 IT’S BIGGER IN TEXAS-1/28/2022 No Boston for me and on Chinese New Year :(- 2/1/2022 UCLA- Waitlisted 2/8/2022 Stanford R- Expected 2/11/2022 Berkeley R- I am rooting for the forest…
Focused more on my GPA to retain Summa, hence being a bit of a reverse splitter (only took LSAT once), but I recommend this: APPLY EARLY! Some at Fordham had similar stats to me but applied a month later, to be outright rejected while I got some scholly money (renegotiate attempted and failed, but I was happy enough…
Don’t let people scare you away from taking the GRE if you have a very strong application (high GPA, great softs, solid narrative) and you feel like you can score better on the GRE than the LSAT (or if you already have a good GRE score on file). Just be prepared for two things: **1) **outcomes are even less…
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