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Advice applicants left on their LSD.Law profiles, searchable by topic, school, and stats.
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Admitted to University of Maine
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…
Just have a really high LSAT score. I’m a New York Press Club award-winning journalist who has written for Rolling Stone, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, and many other outlets. I’m a decorated combat veteran. I graduated summa cum laude with a 3.98 GPA. My memoirs were recently published by a prestigious British…
email and ask for fee waivers if you have even mildly competitive stats for that school on that note, budget for your application cycle, I ended up spending about $1200 between apps and the lsat, and that’s on the low end there’s so much info on law schools, especially between this site and the ABA 509 disclosures.…
Police Officer in Louisiana. Undergrad in Texas with a BS in Criminal Justice. Wrote any optional essays available. Studied for the LSAT for approximately one week for a few hours a day before work but really did not want to retake. Applied late because this is my first attempt at the process and I didn’t know…
It was like pulling teeth to get Ohio State to look at my application. I knew it was a reach, but still. I emailed them, received a response a few days later that they would check with the admissions committee about my application, and I was rejected the next morning. Disappointed that I waited over three months for…
heading to wake forest! went into this process hoping for northeastern, and i would hate to admit but i guess that i applied too late (12/25… so after their first deadline) which made me miss the big scholarships. if anyone else is hoping to go there i strongly suggest to apply before the early app deadline. excited…
I have really weird softs, the kind that one admissions professional might see and say “how unique, that’s a great foundation for a lawyer” and someone else could easily say “this means absolutely nothing”. I put it in as 3, probably it’s really a 4, but the right reader might have given me a lot more credit.
Applying relatively early doesn’t mean you will hear back early. Don’t stress out about it though. Go touch some grass and get more vitamin D instead of doomscrolling
Wrote why x for every school. T5 undergrad. Softs are internships/ugrad clerkships with state circuit court judges & DOJ, and WE post-undergrad is an administration position not in law. Tough cycle, but life goes on.
Don’t worry about the prestige and the rankings. It matters so much less than you think. Go to the school that fits you.
Slow yet steady, what is for me will come to me.
Don’t stress over your LSAT score. When all is said and done, no one is going to wonder what you scored on the LSAT while they sit in your office asking how you can help them.
Cast a wide net
I tailored the last paragraph of my personal statement to each school, and I believe that contributed (in part) to the scholarships I received.
I’d love to offer any sort of insightful advice, but know better than to try! Hard work and persistence does pay off, believe in yourself!
Take the test five times, get the best score you’re capable of, and apply broadly. Don’t limit yourself to a “local” school.
Idk i don’t have any words this cycle doesn’t make any sense 😭 ill fully update when im finished. don’t give up i guess!
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