Wait as close as you can until the seat deposit deadline before attempting to get scholarships reconsidered.
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Advice applicants left on their LSD.Law profiles, searchable by topic, school, and stats.
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Admitted to Saint Louis Universitymy Law School Master Spreadsheet (ignore typos pls): https://tinyurl.com/4ykpnke6
A poor personal statement can overshadow your stats. Don’t overlook your written materials.
Love y’all! R&Ring and going for it HARD next year. Watch this LSAT score jump, baby!! xoxo!! Grown-ass woman (lesbian, formerly homeless child, first to graduate college/first to go to grad school, current legal-themed brewery owner, chronic illness, AmeriCorps) who decided to chase her dream of law school after…
Apply wide. Really wide. Embarrassingly wide. Then let the dust settle and make the smartest boring decision available. Prestige is a fine thing until you’re paying for it with money you don’t have chasing outcomes that aren’t guaranteed. The humble path taken confidently beats the prestigious path taken anxiously…
I think my personal statement was probably a bit weak, I really struggled to even write the mediocre one I ended up with. WashU undergrad with strong ties to the law school. Admittedly not the best applicant, but hey, worth a shot. Want to be back in STL, love the city, so SLU at $$$$ meant I was free rolling the…
Essays, recs, and other intangibles matter. Know why you want to do law, be authentic, and bet on yourself. If you’re stuck on an LSAT question, move on and come back. You’ll have fresh eyes and no point spinning your wheels. You may even notice context from later RC questions.
Extremely grateful for the decisions I have received and for being done with this process. If I had to start this cycle all over again, I would have cut down my school list. Although I received fee waivers to every school I applied to, there was never a realistic chance I would have attended some of these schools.…
Busted my ass for all of these decisions, especially the acceptance at Alabama. Debt is a prison, go to the best school that will cost you the smallest amount of money.
If I can do it so can you!!! Don’t let anyone rain on your parade!!! 🌟
You got it girl, You got it. -Drake (No Guidance)
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.
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.
Make sure you have safety schools!!! Scholarships > Rankings
This whole system is a scam designed for the 1% to win every time (and get richer in the process), but here we all are buying into it; spending ≥1 year of our lives, our energy, and stressing out so that we can play the game too.
Be kind to yourself
Slow yet steady, what is for me will come to me.
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