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Advice applicants left on their LSD.Law profiles, searchable by topic, school, and stats.
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Admitted to Tulane UniversityApply to safeties, targets, and reaches Leave no room for doubt. LOCI’s are better sent too soon than too late. You wont start to be scared of the debt until it becomes more of a reality. I thought a 50% chance at BL was worth any kind of debt level. This was wrong. Visit your schools. Do you personally feel…
wrote “Why X” law school at the end of each PS; addressed ROUGH start to undergrad, break (+ WE), & upward GPA trend in addendums not sure how to note my WE since I’ll be graduating undergrad in the spring and starting law school in the fall (like a traditional student), but I accumulated approx. 2 years of WE on…
Apply to more places! It’s worth it to have the backups and will save you much in terms of emotional stress. I didn’t think it mattered until I had been waiting for decisions for two months. Also, while it may seem like a waste of money, applying to schools solely for the purpose of using their scholarship award for…
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…
It’s not over until it’s over. I applied to most all of my schools in November, and by February I was either waitlisted or rejected at all my targets and reaches and I only got into safeties. I applied to ASU on a whim because I was interested despite being below both medians and late in the cycle, fully expecting…
Overall, I feel as though I outperformed my stats due to a compelling PS. I took the LSAT twice and was PTing higher but decided to quit after the second time because I knew with work and school I couldn’t afford (both financially & time) to keep studying. My advice: if your stats are mediocre write a great PS and…
i am EXTREMELY debt averse, i think paying tens of thousands in tuition for grad school, especially when i intend to enter a very low paying field (public defense) is a fucking racket. so while i’m disappointed by not getting the Toll at Penn, I feel very good about turning down my other offers for a full ride at…
Took June & October 2023 LSAT. Both were not my goal score, but I still applied to all law schools listed below. Ultimately decided to retake the exam one more time & did significantly better on the February of 2024 LSAT. I hope this is helpful to those who are discouraged or worried about taking the LSAT one last…
It’s a long process, and WL and rejections hurt, but stay focused and do the best you can. Good luck!
Employed as a presuit writer at a law office. Published author (not academic though) Was a STEM major…(big mistake) Reaches: Upenn, UT, UF, UNC Chapel Hill, Wake Forest, UGeorgia, Washington and Lee, FSU Targets: UMiami, Tulane, Temple, Baylor, URichmond, Northeastern, Georgia State Safety(are there really any…
VIRGIN SHOULD GO TO UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA virgin actually got waitlisted sorry :/ 2e
Background: 3 years law firm WE, 1 year of teaching English abroad. GPA went down from dual enrollment city college classes I took when I was 14 and the fact that LSAC refuses to calculate my entire Junior year which was spent abroad. Write the optional essays! It is like extra credit. I did for every school that…
Based on 7 sage predictor and the percentage is chance of acceptance Yale: 3.1% R UChicago: 9.4% WL Harvard: 6.7% R Northwestern: 13.2% UMich: 12.0% WL UT: 24% WL WashU: 27.8 % A with $$$ Vandy: 28.9% NDLS: 49.7% BU: 39.9% WL BC: 24.7% Emory: 88.5% A with $$ Northeastern: 83.1% WL Loyola Chicago: 97.2% Tulane: 93.1…
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Start visiting schools earlier if you can afford it!
I think I likely underperformed, but the C&F issues definitely came back to bite me. I think my advice would be you are better off waiting a few years with WE than applying as a KJD, especially when there are negative aspects in you application (Low GPA or C&F). Show growth and maturity rather than say it in you…
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