Man! I wish I applied earlier! Dedicate a couple months to your personal narrative, and take a whole year for the LSAT. I only dedicated a couple months, which I really regret since taking a whole year would’ve yielded results more exacting to my potential… I think! Applied to pretty much every school in January…
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Admitted to University of California—IrvineBackground: 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…
Shoot your shot, I came into this cycle thinking I didn’t really have a chance at the T14s due to last cycle’s LSAT inflation. Be yourself and have a concrete overarching narrative as to why you want to pursue law and why that law school will help you achieve your goals. Low-income & first-gen were also emphasized…
ᕙ(▀̿ĺ̯▀̿ ̿)ᕗ Optional/Why X: Columbia**, Michigan, Northwestern, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, North Carolina, Notre Dame,**** Arizona State, UC Irvine, Illinois, William & Mary, Richmond, Penn State, Cincinnati, ****West Virginia **
this one is for the boys with the boomer system Mexican-American gay boy from California with PI and unicorn goals <3 Wrote pretty much all supplementals T6 down (included a Why Columbia and the Song/Class essays at Stanford as well) Also had an LSAT addendum about test-day performance. Accepted to UCLA’s Epstein…
if I were to do it over again I’d try and retake my LSAT to get a better score … but also, my favorite school that I’ll probably end up attending is one of my “safeties.” **I’ve been told by so many people that the best thing is to go somewhere you’ll be happy and where money isn’t an issue, and so I guess that’s my…
My name is Nathan Fielder, and I graduated from one of Canada’s top business schools with really good grades. Now I’m using my knowledge to help struggling small business owners make it in this competitive world.
stop spending so much time here and on reddit. go meditate. Latina, ivy undergrad, double-major, 3 years WE in legal field, low-income, first-gen everything, immigrant, LGBTQ+. Wrote programmatic contribution + Achievement Fellowship essay for UCLA. puro perreoooooo
Initially applied with a 167. Scored a 172 on the January 2021 LSAT and applied with that afterward. DACA recipient. (out-of-state for UC system schools, which made me ineligible for any aid.) FYI I was able to afford my apps because I qualified for the LSAC waiver.
If you’re an international applicant w/o a GPA, your best shot is at schools where your LSAT score is at or above 75ths. (Especially if you have mediocre softs like I do!) Also, 2020 was the worst year to R&R. ha ha ha learn from my mistakes im not crying you are
Sometimes life don’t be like it be, but it do.
Shoot your shot! Don’t let places like reddit tell you your LSAT/GPA are everything. Of course you need to fit the school, but your softs can really push you over the edge. Being a well-rounded applicant is a much bigger plus than people think.
Just keep surfin
Softs and a cohesive matter so much more than you think.
Wrote diversity statement for all schools. Did research and reached out to current students for required Why X essays. Showed strong improvement from first LSAT to last. Recent work experience was not very strong.
Do every optional zoom, every optional essay, every optional interview. go to every admitted student’s day you can. i had no clue each school would actually differ in terms of culture, academic rigor, etc.
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