…I applied one year removed from undergrad (so, not a KJD but no “significant” work experience besides the internships). LOCIs: The only LOCIs I wrote were for Harvard and Columbia because both of those schools sent me emails that pretty much explicitly said “we would love some more information from you.” For…
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…I have to offer you as a bright-eyed, barely drinking-age KJD: Take the LSAT multiple times if possible—a point’s difference can be the difference between an acceptance or a denial For your personal statement/essays, have the smartest people you know critique them, and make sure they don’t pull their punches. When…
i don’t have palatable advice for the majority. but if you have a passion for justice, shoot for the stars. nobody can stop you — not even a kjd chud.
Taking a year off and working may have helped with admissions instead of coming in as a KJD.
…has released, but I can’t recall which one. Lastly, the KJD tax is real and will cook you with some schools if you’re not careful to highlight relevant work experience or show that you can be competitive in the job market. This was true in some of my apps and I saw it happen with so many others.
LSAT 169 GPA 3.85 2025–26 cycle
KJD tax is real. If you have the option, get at least one year work experience and max out your LSAT. With medians climbing every year, shooting for last cycle’s 50th percentile isn’t enough. Use the 75th as your benchmark. Apply to more than 8 law schools.
…they tell you not to write a “why law” PS if you’re a KJD polisci major (like i was) but ultimately i think law schools like to see that you have an actual reason for undertaking the giant project of becoming an attorney, have direction, and generally aren’t just running around like a chicken with its head cut off,…
LSAT: 167 -> 168 -> 174 I used LSAT Demon + The Loophole (highly recommend both) GPA: 4.0/4.0 (top 1% – humanities classes only) softs: average for a KJD who knew they wanted to go to law school early (summer legal internship, legal research assistant, a handful of undergrad awards, a couple leadership roles in…
As a KJD, this will probably be the hardest academic process you’ve ever gone through in your life. But, it isn’t impossible: keep your head up and remember that not everyone can go down this path, and rely on the skills that got you to this point!
161 Nov LSAT 164 Jan LSAT KJD, just have been working since ever
…lowly 166 so that’s just my two cents /s Applications As a KJD who has been working as a barista for the past 4 years, my applications aren’t anything super impressive, so I did my best to focus on my hard stats and put all my effort into my essays. I’m mostly just slightly above average so I didn’t apply to any T14…
WISDOM FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS Take this with a grain of salt since I kind of did everything but remained KJD (1) start early college students, if you have a pre law program on campus meet with the advisors sophomore year or very early junior year to let them know this is the path you want to go on and take the…
…statement. Otherwise, I was a fairly standard KJD-adjacent applicant (graduated May 2023), with lots of extracurricular involvement and some internships but nothing crazy in the way of work experience. If I had to guess this would be one of the reasons I struggled with H/Y/S/C, but who knows. I had a very hard time…
…essays that have a strong why law, especially if you’re KJD. KJDs routinely make up the majority of applicants who underperform their stats and it’s almost always due to lackluster essays with a weak why law. Don’t take your results personal. Admission decisions are so random and this isn’t a meritocracy. Just…
International KJD student, attending a top 10 liberal arts college T3 softs: focused on international law and rights Submitted every possible supplemental essays for every school except WashU, GW, UMiami
…(expect email sometime before the A asking for KJD fall grades) BU: around 10:30 am ish or between 12:15 pm and 1:15 pm or around 12:45 or between 1:30 pm and 2:15 pm (call) USC: at 9 am or around 12:30 pm or around 1:15 pm or some time around 2 ish maybe maybe?? (email) ThVanderbilt: at around 11 am or around 2 pm…
…taking time off before applying to law school (not KJD) If I were to do it again, I would have never applied to law school straight out of undergrad. My senior year would have been far less stressful // more fulfilling having focused on job applications, and then only start studying LSAT once out of college. For me,…
…to me so that’s what I prioritized. PRE-CYCLE NOTES (Super KJD) I entered undergrad with most of my first-year gen-eds fulfilled by AP credit. (LSAT) I took the LSAT three times: 158 –> 163 –> 162 I probably should have canceled the third test since I was happy with my second score, but I had already paid for it, so…
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