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Applicant Wisdom & Insights

Learn from the experiences and advice of successful law school applicants

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badrasmalai
GPA: 3.85 • LSAT: 167 University of California—Irvine

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...

1 year ago
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user123124125
GPA: 3.55 • LSAT: 158 Southwestern Law School

Apply early, grind your LSAT preparation, work hard in undergrad and work for a few years afterwards.

2 months ago
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Demagorgon
GPA: 3.11 • LSAT: 151 CUNY

You are enough, it’s not just about the LSAT or your GPA. If you want it badly enough and you work hard, you will become the lawyer you are destined to be!

1 year ago
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stars
GPA: 2.8 • LSAT: 155 Albany Law School Of Union University

I applied to a lot of reach schools because I just wanted to go somewhere with great employment options, so I shot my shots. My GPA from undergrad was a 3.5, but because of one bad semester and a...

1 year ago
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Lalalalalalalalal
GPA: 3.83 • LSAT: 174 Northwestern University

TOUGH cycle but grateful to land my dream school with generous scholarship. After two months of drafting and then hating what I drafted, I came up with a very incompetent PS on a extremely...

2 days ago
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killmepls
GPA: 3.73 • LSAT: 158 Case Western Reserve University

For me i always wanted to see people like me’s advice. So lets start at the top. Be Realistic with yourself and craft your school list meticulously: if your below both medians more than likely...

1 year ago
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Swarley1989
GPA: 3.63 • LSAT: 179 University of California—Los Angeles

General Thoughts: We’ll see how my cycle goes but my general strategy so far has been to apply broadly and take every chance to write an optional essay that I can. This was a lot and I started...

1 year ago
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aridfoodexcavator
GPA: 3.29 • LSAT: 169 George Washington University

Try to apply early in the cycle. I think a good number of my waitlists would have been acceptances if I’d applied earlier. That or my essays suck

1 year ago
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