Not everyone has to have the same résumé – in fact, I encourage you to be unique (Being a political science major and doing legal internships over the summer is not the only path) Without rushing, apply as early as you can*. It shows initiative, organization, and interest – also you beat out the hordes of other…
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Admitted to Texas A&M UniversityDon’t take the LSAT until you’re ready, I took it 4 times and would not recommend. 164 -> 169 -> 171 -> 168. I ended up fine though so don’t let it stress you out too much! I really recommend perfecting your essays; any story can be successful, you just have to convey it the right way. Try to get a wide variety of…
***BLANKET THE T14 AS A URM, MILITARY, SUPER SPLITTER, AND REVERSE SUPER SPLITTER!!!! IMMATERIAL OF YOUR STATS, JUST DO IT!!!!!!! ***(Super means above a 75th but below the other 25th) Motivation and good advice: https://www.lsd.law/users/creep/Glaucon191 ***BLACK APPLICANTS READ THIS PLEASE!!!!!: ***…
Here’s a condensed version of the advice I’ve given to others that is based on what I did: Start working as early in life as you can. Don’t wait until you’re graduated from college to get your first job and think that’ll be impressive to law schools. I was working full time in high school and at least part time…
**About Me: **Went to undergrad at a relatively unknown public university. Failed my first semester of undergrad, came back swinging with a 4.0 the following semester. Ended up with a 3.83 institutional GPA. I think my main strength is that I have a very cohesive resume. Every internship, extracurricular, and job I…
Apply EARLY. Apply early. Apply early. When I first began researching the process of applying to law schools, the conventional wisdom from a lot of sources went that anytime before Jan. 1st was perfectly fine, and that even applicants submitting throughout January were not significantly disadvantaged. I think that…
DO NOT BELIEVE ONLINE ODDS-CALCULATORS!!!!! In all seriousness, I feel very lucky that I got into an amazing school with a full ride, but with the rapid increase in law school applications, especially amongst 170+ scores, online calculators made me extremely overconfident in the schools I would get accepted into.…
LSAT Do not sign up for an official test if your PT scores are not consistently in your goal range. I made this mistake three times. Cold Diagnostic December 2022: 152 September 2023 LSAT 176 **GPA: I was six years removed from college when I decided to apply to law school, so there wasn’t much I could do in this…
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Reverse Splitter that ended up with a good number of waitlists. All in all, my cycle went well, and I got scholarship money at every single school that accepted me. One thing to note, if you’re LSAT is on the lower end like mine, EVERYTHING matters. Your Personal statement, your recommendations, your why x essay,…
The LSAT is not everything. Have Faith. Send consistent letters of continued interest (around 1 every two weeks to 1 every month) and tour the law school you want to go to multiple times. Set up meetings with the Dean, sit in on classes, and get to know the faculty. Remember you aren’t out until you are rejected, be…
REQUEST FEE WAIVERS FROM EVERYONE!! EVEN IF YOU DON’T THINK YOU QUALIFY!!!
Live laugh love But for real advice: for the LSAT, when you study, go through missed answers, note what “type” of question it is, and try to understand the “why” - it helps to identify patterns and get better at the test Understand your “why” for law and build your narrative around that for your application,…
Start drafting your application materials EARLY!!! There will always be unexpected bumps in the road during the application process which will slow you down, and you want to start the process well before your intended submission date. In hindsight, my two biggest takeaways were that I wish I had: applied to more…
Going into this cycle, UChicago was my top choice, and I was so happy to get in! I realized later on that Chicago was not a city I wanted to be in long-term (having grown up in a small/medium-sized city), and the debt was not something I wanted to take on. I visited the University of Minnesota and fell in love with…
Life is not T14 or bust. Look at the market (or markets) where you’d potentially like to live and work, then work backwards from there to find schools that place well where you want. Make smart decisions, as in not taking out $300k (that becomes $500k before you know it) in debt to go to a school hardly ranked above…
Apply before December. Makes a huge difference. Also - be yourself on the essays - let your personality show. Lot of people with similar stats are applying here, make your essay standout (not in a controversial way) Don’t be hard on yourself or take rejections/ WL personally. You are not failing if things don’t…
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