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Applicant wisdom

Advice applicants left on their LSD.Law profiles, searchable by topic, school, and stats.

LSAT 177 GPA 3.99 2020–21 cycle

Attending Stanford University

…for any schools that had prompts. Otherwise, very boring KJD who’s had a lot of luck this cycle :)

LSAT 177 GPA 3.78 2024–25 cycle

Attending New York University

Reapplicant. Last year is https://www.lsd.law/users/creep/MindlessUsefulFox. Focusing on my essays and not applying as a KJD helped a lot the second time around.

LSAT 179 GPA 4.00 2023–24 cycle

Attending University of Pennsylvania

…was way too casual. Don’t try to be funny :( Re-applicant KJD 169-> waited a year reapplied with a 179 + one year work experience

LSAT 174 GPA 3.85 2023–24 cycle

Attending University of Michigan

**Please please PLEASE take time off in between undergrad and law school! ** So many KJDs just want to go straight through “to get law school over with” or “not waste time because they’re 100% sure they want to be a lawyer.” And while the latter may be true for some, there is so much you learn—about yourself, your…

LSAT 177 GPA 3.96 2024–25 cycle

Attending Harvard University

I was convinced going into the cycle that my KJD status would completely bar me from the t 3-5 schools, but I’m happy to have been wrong. Work experience is the right call for many people, but if you have high stats and have had exposure to legal work, I think you can have some confidence going in. A few random…

LSAT 173 GPA 3.61 2022–23 cycle

Attending Stanford University

…originally dead-set on wanting to go completely through KJD, but the pandemic happened and it didn’t work out (I didn’t want to do Zoom University School of Law). Honestly, so thankful it happened that way (everything happens for a reason as the cliche goes.) I was not emotionally, mentally, psychologically,…