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…
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Admitted to University of OregonDon’t compare yourself to others. Do your best to be your best and you will be successful.
Work as hard as you can in college, study hard for the LSAT, try to apply early if possible – and above all else, PLEASE take care of your mental health. If that means stepping away from this site for a while, then do it. Do NOT sacrifice your wellbeing during this process. Develop good habits now, and carry them…
Received LSAC Fee Waiver. First-generation college and professional applicant; low-income (Pell Grant recipient); Southeast Asian male (second-generation); went to top public university; super KJD (dual enrolled through high school, graduating two years early). Wrote diversity statement on being second-generation…
Get your materials ready ASAP. I got mine ready to apply in the previous cycle, realized I would get no scholarship money so I waited for the next cycle since I had the ability to do so fortunately. With that I definitely feel it has benefitted me in the scholarship department. Also really think about where you…
Pay as much money as you can to do well the LSAT, especially if you are a splitter. A few thousand on a course can make up for tens of thousands in scholarships. Originally applied to 5 schools 2020-21 cycle with a 15low and got 4/5 waitlists, no acceptances. Reapplying this cycle with higher LSAT and fingers…
if you take the LSAT for the first time in 2018 apply then instead of two years later in a global pandemic lol apply as early as you can would be my biggest recommendation. put T3 softs as I’d won a prestigious Man of the Year award at my undergraduate school, available for all students by nomination. Maybe a…
Prestige isn’t everything; what really matters is happiness and making an impact in the lives of others.
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.…
just don’t do it…. but if you’re going to - do everything (LSAT, submitting apps, questioning all your life choices that led you to this decision) at the earliest possible moment. find hobbies and interests outside of LSData and r/LSA. mine is my obsession with ginger ale, but to each their own. Law school is just…
Looks like an R and R year for me. I initially put down a deposit for Oregon Law but will be withdrawing. It is simply too expensive and they gave me hardly any scholarship. Plus, I just got a new job that is amazing so law school may not be even worth it now. Still holding out on U of AZ for on the waitlist just…
Mid-cycle advice: Apply widely, its good to have options. Get all the fee waivers you can get, almost every school will send them out. Start planning early (I should have started earlier!). Take the LSAT early so you can retake it if needed. End of cycle advice: I am attending the best school that offered me a full…
Run the ball!!!
Below both medians for both UO and DU. Strong softs, LORs, and personal statement connecting to Why Law. Highly encourage applicants to get work experience and build connections in the legal industry of the city you wish to reside in. I truly believe having that boosted my application this time around as a…
Didn’t write any “Why X” essays but wrote optional essays for all the schools that had them GULC - group interview in November, “special group” in the priority waitlist in December, admitted off the waitlist in April UChicago - interview with an admissions staff member in December, waitlisted in January L&C -…
“Life is for the bold, to seize the opportunity when it comes, not those poor intrepid souls that stay close to shore. But it is the person that goes out in the storm that reap the high rewards”. -Ferdinand Magellan
Apply early, but if you aren’t just know that applying late doesn’t close all the doors in your legal journey. I applied late and got into one of my top two schools.
There are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and say, “Morning boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?”
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