Applicant Wisdom & Insights

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Pharaoh

GPA: 3.75 • LSAT: 175 • University of Michigan

Some notes about my merit aid reconsideration process at UMich: I initially recieved $105,000 total over three years (~44% tuition). I submitted my seat deposit in early April in order to apply...

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cheesestick

GPA: 2.9 • LSAT: 173 • George Washington University

Not editing these to preserve the stats, but got a 3.8 GPA 1L fall and transferred to GULC with financial aid. If you don’t get it the first time, try, try again!

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GunnyDragon

GPA: 3.73 • LSAT: 157 • (Part-time) Brooklyn Law School

Softs will help, but even if you’ve got exceptionally high ones, many schools, given how the game is played, will still care most about your LSAT and GPA. That is just how it is. So, live in the...

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KimWexlersBurner

GPA: 4.2 • LSAT: 173 • Cornell University

It’ll all work out. Probably.

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SWWSW

GPA: 3.97 • LSAT: 174 • Harvard University

Yes, you have to write all the optional essays. Schools that called: UVA (434), NYU (212), Northwestern (224, caller ID = “spam risk”), Harvard (617), Penn (215). During the process, a very...

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auctionlentils

GPA: 4.09 • LSAT: 169 • Columbia University

don’t listen to any admissions predictors. essays/resume and your fit with a particular school are more important than your stats

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Only-Rs

GPA: 3.36

Unless you have a 4.0 GPA, a 178+ LSAT, and like to throw away your money at pick-me institutions that aren’t really there to educate anybody, find another field. There are plenty of options out...

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UnredactedRegulatorySasquatch

GPA: 3.29 • (Part-time) George Mason University

“Admissions committees probably know your Starbucks order by now.”

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MusingForensicFirefly

GPA: 3.7 • LSAT: 145 • Wilmington University School of Law

Trust the process whatever is meant to happen in your law school journey will happen. Don’t be so extreme with prestige. I lived in a city all my life and I never felt more unhappy here in the...