Email admission offices and ask for CAS fee waivers if you are a student with a LSAC fee waiver. You get either 3 or 6 for free with the fee waiver but was able to get multiple more just by asking. Even if you do not have a LSAC fee waiver it never hurts to ask!
Applicant wisdom
Advice applicants left on their LSD.Law profiles, searchable by topic, school, and stats.
6,732 entries
LSAT 143 GPA 3.33 2022–23 cycle
I hope the best for you all. I am unsure what the future holds and I hope I get into a great law school for me but I hope that sharing my process will help you all get a better idea of the application process! Will try to keep this updated as I get notified :)
Believe in yourself, sell yourself and be exactly who you really are in your essays! Got on a few waitlists, but never actually tried to get off any. Fell in love with UMN pretty early and the scholarship made the decision easy! Took the LSAT 5x - don’t give up!
The best decision I made was choosing to work for a few years between undergrad and applying for law school. My softs, my writing skills, my interview skills, and my perspective all changed for the better because I had gained real world, professional experience.
A little more info about my application: Took the LSAT once in September 2024, 164- Have a low GPA due to health issues during freshmen/sophomore year and course difficulty Have two internships, three TA positions, and my name on three published science papers
FYI on the quick UCLA turnaround – applied for Distinguished Scholars, which is full-tuition ED if you get it. If you don’t get it, your application goes to RD, but you are guaranteed a response by end of December. So a little twist on that specific data point.
LSAT 136 GPA 3.50 2026–27 cycle
That you have to have an LSAT score and not just a JD Next score. I am also a LSAC Scholar and I highly recommend the program for LSAT Prep!
Always shoot your shot kids. If they rejected you, they aren’t the school you want to attend. Let them miss out. If your top school waitlisted you, get started on those LOCIs. You would make an amazing fit there, they just need a little lawyer-style convincing.
Chemistry PhD 3.9 PhD GPA. Several talks at conferences, multiple first/sole author papers in my field. Want to do Intellectual Property law, so my app was pretty focused on the type of law I want to practice and why/my background. Maybe tier 3 softs idk lol
Practice all available admission tests and find your strength before committing. Don’t be afraid to use your life story thoughtfully in your personal statement.
Before I got any results back, I made predictions on which schools I’d be Accepted/Rejected/Waitlisted at. I was only wrong about one– I figured USC would reject me, but that’s where I’m going now :) Don’t count yourself out!
I ended up exactly where I needed to be. Coming from a no-name regional public university, now to top of my class at a well-regarded law school with an appellate clerkship already lined up, I never would have been happy anywhere else.
I took the LSAT 4 times, went through 2 different admission cycles (2020 and 2023), and was denied by 10 schools, however, in the face of it all, it only takes one school to accept you to become a lawyer, so always keep that in mind and keep your options open!
APPLY TO LAW SCHOOL. Don’t let anyone discourage you. Go to the best school that gives you the most money!!!!!!! I will only be including the day sent and when I received a decision date because law schools will take years to get back to you with a decision.
T1 softs from being ex hockey pro athlete with career ending injury. I wasn’t in the NHL, it was an overseas pro league, so maybe it’s considered as T2? Beats me. regardless, the trend seems that stats are still the primary decision of admission outside of T14
Renegotiated with Texas Law using all of my other scholarship offers, except NYU (hadn’t received my scholly info yet) – offer went from 54k total to 60k total (off of in-state tuition). Headed to Texas Law to stay close to my fam and significant other! :)
No LSAT plateau is permanent Apply earlier than I did Ask for fee waivers Talk to lawyers. Find out what they do and whether they like it Recommended resources: LSAT Demon, Thinking LSAT, Michigan’s A2Z, Harvard and Yale’s Navigating Law School Admissions
LSAT 174 GPA 2.41 2022–23 cycle
Admitted to University of California—Los Angeles
Take the LSAT seriously. Started with 152 diagnostic. 169 on the first official. 174 on the second official. Wrote a PS about my work in the aerospace industry and how it connects back to law school. Hired one of the law school admissions consulting services.
Your study break just got better: follow @lawschooldata on Follow @lawschooldata on TikTok & Instagram