Retook the LSAT in Feb and got 164 Applied to ASU after 164 Accepted off Hold at W&L after 164 Scholarship Increase at GW after 164 Scholarship Increase at Maryland after 164
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Admitted to University of RichmondApply early, speak from the heart, don’t waste money on advising or tutors, apply early, be confident in your own merits. Only apply where you actually see yourself attending.
For advice, the best I can say is don’t apply late in the cycle like I did. Had I been able to take the LSAT earlier and apply earlier, I could have maybe gotten into some schools where I was waitlisted and rejected. My top choices where I was accepted were Washington and Lee, Kansas, Wisconsin, Idaho, and Florida…
never kys 🤍
Another thing, of course, is life will have terrible blows, horrible blows, unfair blows. It doesn’t matter. And some people recover and others don’t. Every mischance in life [is] an opportunity to learn something and your duty [is] not to be submerged in self-pity, but to utilize the[se] terrible blow[s] in a…
“I ought to have read more, for I find I don’t know anything, and it mortifies me.” - Louisa May Alcott
Apply early and write the supplemental essays; even though they’re tedious, they’ll help you have a better chance of acceptance and scholarships.
As a re-applicant who got into 0 schools last cycle with a 15(high) LSAT - can confidently say majority of schools who claim a “holistic review” are full of shit. Schools only care about LSAT/GPA and raising their own medians. I was way too naive about this during my first cycle. If you have the time/ability to take…
165 -> 163 -> 168 -> 166 (lol). Previous career in healthcare/med school. Goals are Dallas big law. Admitted to SMU 11/29 with 165 LSAT Accepted to TAMU 12/22 with 168 LSAT After receiving a laughable 6k/year scholarship from TAMU decided to apply to some more schools in late Jan for leverage to negotiate. Accepted…
Military experience seems to be a very useful “x-factor” in applications. Don’t self select, if you want to go to a particular school, apply. Maybe you get in, maybe you don’t, but it’s worth it to know where you hit your ceiling. Lastly, don’t stress too much about the whole process. Draft your essays, complete…
2 years UG gap to help family pay rent. Started studying March 2024, final test was October. Diagnostic with LG’s was 156, w/o was 160. Highest PT so was 177 (PT#158), average 167 but average for last 5 was 168. Study 2 times a week, practice test every 1-2 weeks using 7Sage. J.Y.‘s explanations are not super useful…
My advice is threefold: Retake the test: a few more points could make the difference between a waitlist and an admission, or a scholarship over sticker price. Keep your expectations low: This is a long, slow process full of high and low points. Try not to go crazy. Decisions will come. It’s just going to take…
Apply early, write optional essays, and really dive into the schools you’re applying to. See what programs exist, what schools have similar clinics and externships and compare between them to understand the differences, understand how law school works – and then you’ll be able to write more convincingly about why…
Do not screw up the LSAT. I mean it. I thought my softs could carry me but they couldn’t. My 158 killed me. Suspecting that’s the cause of my overwhelming WL results. I’m happy to attend the school I am, but because of my low LSAT, the schools that admitted me offered me little to no scholarships. Apply to schools…
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.…
Wrote ‘Why X’ statements for UF, Wake, UNC, U Richmond, George Mason, and FIU. GPA out of 4.0 not 4.3 Double Major in college and graduated a year early LGBTQ+ Woman so Underrepresented Individual in Law –> Contributes to T3 Gap Year of Service through Americorps –> Contributes to T3 Fine with 157 because COVID hit…
Because this cycle moved so slowly, I wish I had taken the LSAT again and gotten my score up. Because it was “rolling,” I wanted to get my app in as early as possible (I applied early November to all schools). However, people who applied much later than me heard back way earlier and I wish I could’ve made my…
Application Advice: Visit schools! Attending virtual info sessions is great, but I think visiting schools made a huge difference in a some of my outcomes (especially UVA and Duke) and allowed me to figure out where would be the best fit- Write all of the “Why XYZ” essays. Schools want to know that you are…
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