Applicant Wisdom & Insights

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GreedyDeliriousOcelot

GPA: 3.9 • LSAT: 170 • Northwestern University

If you can avoid checking the status checker, do that. A couple UR dates may be inaccurate (specifically USC), I didn’t check my status checker too frequently. Wrote a Diversity Statement related...

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NumberlessFuturisticBear

GPA: 3.65 • LSAT: 167 • University of Washington

Application Components:  https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PKETmeTic01VbUu0nRdaOcLqXJbejtd8?usp=sharing Finding any examples of personal statements, addenda or scholarship applications were...

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HungryAgreeableGrasshopper

GPA: 3.99 • LSAT: 180 • Columbia University

Softs: 4+ years of work experience in progressive advocacy, 2+ of which have been at a legal org that has worked on multiple Supreme Court cases Letters of Rec: 2 from professors (one of whom was...

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NotTodaySatan

GPA: 3.6 • LSAT: 169 • University of Southern California

RENOGOTIATE, ALWAYS. Say that five times fast and then do it. Even if the amount received at backup schools are smaller than the one offered at your goal school. Asking never hurts, only helps! A...

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AmericanBison

GPA: 3.77 • LSAT: 173 • University of Pennsylvania

Worry about the things you can control and do your best to let everything else go. Be a real person. There are hundreds of other people out there with your stats. You are more than just a dot on...

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ToastedWhiteBread

GPA: 3.83 • LSAT: 171 • University of Minnesota

Three LSAT takes 159->163->171. Reapplicant from last cycle, when I applied with 3.86/163. Full 2021 cycle details: https://www.lsd.law/users/creep/AlcoholicCockroach

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Army2Law

GPA: 2.65 • LSAT: 153 • Campbell University

4-year college athlete in undergrad multiple surgeries affected my ability to get around, in turn, my academic performance (uGPA addendum) DUI during freshman year, at 18 (C/F issue) Current...

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Posidonius

GPA: 3.91 • GRE: 319 • University of Notre Dame

Columbia: EOCI 2/20/22 Chicago: UR3 11/17/21, UR4 1/18/22, LOCI 5/2/22 NYU: LOCI 2/1/22 (after midnight ET, so 2/2 by ET) Penn: LOCI 3/24/22 UVA: LOCI 12/29/21, EOCI 2/1/22, WL form 4/29/22 Duke:...

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PotatoLawyer

GPA: 3.9 • LSAT: 174 • Harvard University

First Gen/Low Income – PI or Die Has anyone seen my “F*ck the Patriarchy” keychain??? I think I dropped it somewhere on the ground. Please stay off LSD and r/LSA as much as you can!! Stop...