Applicant Wisdom & Insights

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Gladiolus013

GPA: 3.06 • LSAT: 163 • (Part-time) Loyola University Chicago

It is never too late to change your path. If you’re not happy with your direction, your career, or your sense of being, trust your mind and heart to get you to where you want to be. You wouldn’t...

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Gurdy5ever

GPA: 3.71 • LSAT: 155 • University of New Mexico

This is so hard, give yourself grace

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Maracuya99

GPA: 3.97 • LSAT: 167 • University of Virginia

Softs matter. Shoot your shot! Blanket the T20, especially if you’re a splitter or reverse splitter. If a $45 CAS fee gets you an extra acceptance or even $50 extra in scholarship money it’s...

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WindyThickParrot

GPA: 3.88 • LSAT: 172 • Harvard University

(in the order that they notified me) Harvard - A Penn - A - just updated my diversity statement to mention Penn by name; didn’t write any specific why Penn essay. Yale - A - 250 was on a time...

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StemSplitterGirly

GPA: 3.2 • LSAT: 176 • University of California—Los Angeles

I spent some time working as an engineer. I never considered a law degree in my undergrad, I was just trying to make it through. I decided in March that I wanted to pursue law and took the LSAT...

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Dandman781

GPA: 2.91 • LSAT: 148 • University of Illinois—Chicago

When someone shows you who they are, believe them The First Time!

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LawPilled

GPA: 3.6 • LSAT: 161 • Ohio State University

Even in a hard cycle, you can still admit at a school above your medians. Should you do as I did? Probably not, I did because my tuition is paid for fully by my parents. Your UGPA should be your...

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Bakkhai

GPA: 3.01 • LSAT: 164 • Michigan State University

When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state, And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries, And look upon myself and curse my fate, Wishing me like to one...

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lawblondiee

GPA: 2.66 • LSAT: 162 • University of Oklahoma

Applying to a few schools for this cycle late after doing better on my first LSAT than I thought I would! Will apply more broadly and earlier with probably a higher GPA for next cycle after...