Applicant Wisdom & Insights

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BasedRomanGibbon

GPA: 3.76 • LSAT: 173 • University of Chicago

Law school is a risk, and lawyers are all about risk reduction. While the rest of your career will be spent on minimizing chances for a failure, lawsuit, etc., law school applications provide an...

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HocJoyousChimpanzee

GPA: 3.86 • LSAT: 177 • Harvard University

Very proud of all my statements. Wrote all optionals. Several T3 and T4 softs. FGLI. 1 year of relevant WE (I think not having more hurt me for YLS). Did everything I could to make my GPA the...

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trees1234567

GPA: 3.83 • LSAT: 164 • University of California—Berkeley

General vibe: Softs can get you onto waitlists and from there, your LOCIs and determination may get you off of one! Make sure you go to info sessions! easy way to get your foot in the door and...

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UtopianLopsidedWalrus

Still waiting for a wave (◕︵◕)

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janesser05

GPA: 3.85 • LSAT: 174 • Boston University

The earlier you can apply, the better. I was very busy in the fall and left it for break, and by the time many schools got back to me with financial aid and admissions decisions it was cutting it...

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SelectiveMountian

GPA: 2.69 • LSAT: 153 • University of Baltimore

My wife became sick so I had to drop out after my university withdrawl date to take care of her, and I was rejected a medical hardship form. This tanked my GPA. I’m grateful I managed to find a...

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TheWhit3W0lf

GPA: 3.21 • LSAT: 154 • University of Detroit Mercy

Red eyes, Jon realized, but not like Melisandre’s. He had a weirwood’s eyes. Red eyes, red mouth, white fur. Blood and bone, like a heart tree. He belongs to the old gods, this one. And he alone...

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JollyWolfHound

GPA: 3.91 • LSAT: 171 • Cornell University

Ask for fee waivers if you don’t get them. No point in being squeezed by both law schools and the LSAC if you don’t have to be. Schools are very generous with them. (And ask early, it can take a...

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FlatSmoothGnome

GPA: 3.53 • LSAT: 155 • University of Miami

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