Advice applicants left on their LSD.Law profiles, searchable by topic, school, and stats.
LSAT 162 GPA 3.10 2025–26 cycle
I was a STEM major my first year of school and was not cut out for it, I was also 16 and stupid. I changed and had a 3.9 gpa in my upper division classes. I also did dual credit when I was 14 and that counted into my LSAC gpa and pulled it down. Not a typical applicant w a lower gpa so if you have a similar…
Softs: Political Science undergrad specializing in East Asian Foreign policy& Philosophy minor at UC Irvine. Published undergraduate research on the implications of COVID-19 in East Asia. Grew up with a single navy veteran parent. Struggled to overcome undiagnosed ADHD until the end of high school. Three recs: 1st…
Do what you love in undergrad. Get some work experience, even if it’s just a gap year. It’ll give you a difference perspective about the real world and will give you time to make sure that law school is right for you. Write a cohesive PS that speaks true to who you are. Don’t get too stuck on this website the way I…
LSAT 172 GPA 3.85 2025–26 cycle
Just so delighted with how this cycle is going
Sancta Thoma, ora pro nobis
LSAT 177 GPA 4.00 2025–26 cycle
Don’t… juggle your keys… over a storm drain grate!
Took the LSAT twice: April ’23 - 165 June ’23 - 171 Full-time work in construction and full-time undergrad throughout the whole lsat/application process. So I’m both a non-traditional student with 15 years of work history, and in some ways a k-jd My low gpa was tempered a bit. All my low grades were from more than…
Went into this cycle fully expecting to reapply next year. Chose a short list of schools that a) have strong programming in my somewhat niche public defense subfield and/or b) are relatively close to my partner. Going to NYU! Please don’t do a throwaway cycle. I promise you won’t want to do it a second time. Luckily…
Wrote “Diversity Statement” “LSAT addendum” and “Why School” for all. Some schools’ “why school” were incorporated at the end of personal statements. Late applicant, because my internationa transcripts’ CAS evaluation took my several extra months, due to COVID-19 policy changes in my undergrad school’s archive…
Don’t ever stop fighting; don’t ever give up
Reapplicant from the ’20-21 cycle, waitlisted or rejected at every school I applied to. Reapplying to the same schools, plus added Stanford, Columbia, Chicago, NYU, and Penn to shoot my shot with a new and improved LSAT score. Georgetown date disappeared the same day as waitlist on 12/3 Went Duke UR3 on 12/7 Chicago…
Your spouse/partner will make or break your career. I hit a home run with my wife.
myriad C&F disclosures from several years ago when I had an underdeveloped prefrontal cortex 2020-21: (KJD) applied late November and December to the T14 + BU, Texas, WashU, GW, BC- A: none WL: UPenn, Duke, Michigan, Northwestern, GULC, WashU, Vanderbilt, Texas, BU, GW R: HLS, CLS, NYU, BC 2021-22: Why X for…
The earlier you can start planning and setting goals for your future the better. Knowing that I wanted to go to law school even before my first day of undergraduate helped me prioritize school and my GPA throughout my college experience. Also, real-world EXPERIENCE is worth its weight in gold. Beg, borrow, and…
Hey you, you’re finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there.
They can’t all reject me right….right? HARVARD- DA FIRST R BBY HIT ME WITH IT GW THEY TOOK ME- 1/13/2022 VANDY- LETS GOOOOOOO-1/19/2022 IT’S BIGGER IN TEXAS-1/28/2022 No Boston for me and on Chinese New Year :(- 2/1/2022 UCLA- Waitlisted 2/8/2022 Stanford R- Expected 2/11/2022 Berkeley R- I am rooting for the forest…
For advice, the best I can say is don’t apply late in the cycle like I did. Had I been able to take the LSAT earlier and apply earlier, I could have maybe gotten into some schools where I was waitlisted and rejected. My top choices where I was accepted were Washington and Lee, Kansas, Wisconsin, Idaho, and Florida…
slay <3 Now that my crazy cycle has come to an end here is my advice to future applicants: Put your soul into every essay - make sure they should who you are and your perspective. Find what you’re passionate about and follow it headfirst. Don’t let the application process stop you from enjoying life. Law school…
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