Please write a GPA/LSAT addendum (if its valid). I regret not writing one, I was scared to write one for many reasons but I still regret it
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LSAT 172 GPA 3.14 2021–22 cycle
Addendum for a semester where I dropped from a 3.67 to a 3.18 Solid amount of community service work/ PI-focused app. Whoever is looking at this, super splitters are the peak of human society and I believe in you
…my GPA is tragic no matter how you parse it out. Wrote an addendum about learning to manage my health on my own for the first time in college, and the downright miraculous medical advancements that I benefit from now. Wrote Why X for Michigan, UVA and Georgetown. Otherwise tailored personal statements for specific…
…last paragraph of each personal statement. Did write a GPA addendum but did not submit to all schools. Most importantly I would say I’m satisfied with all my application materials because I wrote a philosophically exploratory personal statement on norms in the alternative community instead of focusing on adversity.…
…I didn’t talk about race) and a pretty wild academic addendum. I know for a fact that my essays and interviews were what got me very far in the admissions process- spend a lot of time on those and don’t short change yourself! To any URM applicants looking, don’t listen to Reddit- shoot your shot and know that with…
Criminal Justice undergrad, 1 year Paralegal. Two LSAT scores. Optional Essays: Why Berkeley, Why UCLA. Wrote LSAT Score increase addendum at request from USC
…information about my cycle, if you care: ⛧ I wrote a GPA addendum even though a lot of people would have said not to. I finished a five-year undergrad program in four years, and both majors that I studied had a lot of additional requirements outside of normal class hours. I essentially used the space to say that I…
…withdraw my apps for Berkeley ED. Didn’t bother with a GPA addendum, wouldn’t recommend for only kinda bad GPAs unless you have a real good reason for your bad GPA.
NDLS class of 2024! 🍀🍀🍀 Wrote optional essays for Columbia, Cornell, Georgetown, UCLA, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, Pepperdine, SMU, and Tennessee Wrote LSAT addendum for first LSAT score Received no interview invites Do your best to stay positive throughout the admissions process and try to not obsessively check LSA…
Wrote addendum on significant medical events and changes in medical care during my sophomore year that impacted my attendance and thus my grades during that time.
I had an awful GPA due to a traumatic event that happened the beginning of my second year in school. Had to throughly explain that in my addendum. I had super strong softs in my opinion that saved me lol. I interned for my city’s courthouse, I started a nonprofit at 17 plus had so many volunteering hours outside of…
Wrote LSAT FLEX 3x (170 -> 166 ->177), no addendum. Wrote 3 Books Essay for Stanford, Core Values Essay for Penn, Why Xs for Michigan and Berkeley, Programmatic contributions for UCLA, applied for Furman Academic for NYU. For most schools (all but Harvard and UCLA because of space restrictions) tailored the final…
queer woman closer to 5 years of WE than 9. work was in political campaigns (local to national and everything in between) wrote a gpa and lsat addendum (retook the lsat for waitlists and got a 166 - likely not enough to move any needles) only wrote a LOCI for fordham bc i committed to dozo, signed a lease, and…
Wrote diversity statement and GPA addendum; Over 4.0 GPA at degree-granting institution (50% of units completed there); Wrote Why NDLS and Why Irvine; Wrote Programmatic Contribution for UCLA; Explained desire for criminal law through PS, Diversity Statement, and letters of rec Based on projections for this cycle…
No optional essays except GPA addendum. No excuse for bad GPA except basically didn’t plan to apply to law school. 169–>174–>177 LSAT. Journalist, covered legal issues in a high-profile role for a national news outlet.
HYSP Undergrad in STEM Wrote a GPA addendum explaining rocky freshman year but upward trajectory; other extra essays - Why Berkeley, Why Michigan, advice to younger self for GULC HTE from NYU on 1/28
LSAT 166 GPA 3.80 2020–21 cycle
…race, Y250 about Muslim injustice in Italy. Wrote GPA addendum (straight A’s throughout UG, except one semester). Raised LSAT score by 30+ points.
…of rec both from undergrad professors *1 pg double sp addendum for academic suspension (Got poor grades and flunked out) UNH adcom personally liked this he told me it really made the decision because I “owned up and was blunt about failing out’ *Not a great personal statement (3 pgs double sp) If I could go back in…
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