Softs and a cohesive matter so much more than you think.
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269 entries matching "softs"
…I knew my gpa wasn’t great and found ways to get my soft stronger.
…for rushing your apps just to start school a year earlier. Softs are everything, and the tiers most people use to categorize them are nonsense. Never feel like you have to do anything law-related in your free time if you don’t want to (i.e. paralegal, pre-law frat, pre-law classes). Doing something that actually…
…education after undergrad. Those schools who value those “softs” may admit me in spite of my sub 25 percentile GPA. Those who do not either simply don’t have enough spots or value numbers in a way that probably would not work well with the kind of producer I am.
Ivy+ undergraduate degree, one year Master’s degree (’23-’24 year) from prestigious school in legal-adjacent field. On the strong side of T4 in terms of softs. Reapplicant to 7/14 schools. Took LSAT 4 times, scoring well below PT numbers until the 4th attempt. Applied with public interest as the goal and many of my…
…essays helped set me apart. And yes, I have some good softs, but my two cents is that it’s more about *how *you write about them and use them to tell your story more than what they actually are.
Softs: AmeriCorps, Public Defense Advocacy, Military Service @ 3 letter agency, LGBTQ+, bilingual
…“should have” acted differently according to the numbers. Softs are important, and you never know what the admissions team is specifically drawn to in a certain app. Just try and maximize your reach and don’t get hung up on a specific school because anything could happen. You got this! Special Note for other people…
Softs do matter!
I reject the premise of soft tiers and so should you.
softs tiering is for the birds
…I almost certainly underperformed my stats. I had no solid softs to speak of though, and if I did it all again I would’ve focused more on experiences ahead of time and developed a well rounded application instead of just a stat-heavy one. Happy to walk away with only two R’s, but getting waitlist after waitlist was…
International KJD student, attending a top 10 liberal arts college T3 softs: focused on international law and rights Submitted every possible supplemental essays for every school except WashU, GW, UMiami
…A professional career spanning 19 years and additional softs in profile.
…applicant and had to focus my application around my softs. Reddit doomscrolling is the equivalent of undergrad CollegeConfidential - do so at your own risk, but it is not helpful. The emails will come in as they come in! I stopped applying to safeties after the GW A and just moonshotted applications for the heck of it
My law school app is pretty unique which both helped and hurt me (t1 soft which helped, and convicted felon which hurt. Also I’ve always publicly maintained my innocence which in a lot of cases can hurt). LSAT 171 Diagnostic->178 after a month or so of studying. Was pting 180 pretty regularly but during the actual…
…at your essays for too long. My only super “unique” soft was an experience with a health emergency and subsequent disability in my senior yr of college, which I wrote about as a diversity/perspective statement. Otherwise, I was a fairly standard KJD-adjacent applicant (graduated May 2023), with lots of…
Didn’t write any optional essays Applied RD to all schools in December No major C&F issues Softs are academic awards and honor societies, including PBK. Interviewed at GULC, Cornell, and WashU Scholarships from Vandy and Emory
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