Don’t worry, be happy. Don’t focus on just the highest school in ranking, focus on what suits your short term and long term goals Placed my dream school on hold so I could score a better LSAT and be competitive
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LSAT 153 GPA 3.45 2025–26 cycle
Admitted to University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
I wish that I had been more confident in the schools that I had applied to, and that it is actually worthwhile to study for the LSAT FOR A REALLY LONG TIME. I took it without studying and regretted it after seeing how much others had improved because of how much time they had studied.
It all turns out okay in the end.
End of Cycle Recap Chose where I wanted to apply based on location, alumni network, and job placement. . . . in that order- Tried to find schools where I was at or slightly below one or both medians to apply to Visited UofSC twice before deciding to commit there and not R&R I used 7Sage for the LSAT and while I did…
It’s a long process, and WL and rejections hurt, but stay focused and do the best you can. Good luck!
Super Splitter, non-traditional. My resume includes an MBA on which I received a ~3.50 GPA, as well as a hardship-based explanation for my low uGPA. I focused on my post-undergrad career (mid/high-level management and engineering positions in a fortune 250 company, volunteer experience, graduate work) in my essays…
Reapplicant (0 admits for the previous cycle) Resident alien 3.85 in my Academic Summary Report (for finishing my college degree in the U.S.) Above Average in my JD Foreign CAS Evaluation (for receiving education aboard for 2.5 years) STEM major with professional experience in a big name. Got a patent for my…
You + me both need to stop obsessively checking this and reddit; they’ll get to us when they get to us.
LSAT 170 GPA 3.60 2020–21 cycle
Softs: -Full-time employment at prestigious law firm for 4.5 years (part-time employment before graduating) -Overcame significant childhood adversity (abusive home) -Co-authored on six academic publications on epilepsy Wrote GPA addendum regarding my senior year. My mother was arrest for alcohol-related incident and…
Lots of apps = lots of work/time preparing apps… Fee waivers saved my wallet and sanity! Buy Ann Levine’s law school admissions book… Listen to Mike Spivey’s podcast for advice… Use all online admissions “sources,” but know when to leave them, have patience, and let the decisions come (@LSData - the tornado of data,…
You need to, and I cannot stress this enough, submit your application as early in the cycle as you are able to. I had a pretty satisfactory cycle, and I am extremely happy with where I will end up going. However, I know that - had I submitted my applications earlier than I did (for context, I submitted most…
Ph. D. in a humanities field related to the law I wish to practice, connection drawn (I hope convincingly) in the personal statement. Have four peer-reviewed articles in print (sole author) and a dissertation. I’m sort of known in my field, not a celebrity by any means but definitely a member of the profession.…
Hello future splitter law applicants (if you ever see this). I’m a first-generation college student, and aside from that, am not in any way a URM. I only wrote a “why X” for Duke and wrote the “unpopular opinion” optional essay for Georgetown. In retrospect, I wish I had applied ED to GULC, and wrote more “why X”…
Red eyes, Jon realized, but not like Melisandre’s. He had a weirwood’s eyes. Red eyes, red mouth, white fur. Blood and bone, like a heart tree. He belongs to the old gods, this one. And he alone of all the direwolves was white. Six pups they’d found in the late summer snows, him and Robb; five that were grey and…
Rank your law schools into reaches, targets, and safeties. Next, build a contingency list of lower-tier “true safeties” for if all your initial targets reject you. Finally, keep a plan to reapply or gain work experience as your absolute worst-case fallback.
“If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away” - John Steinbeck
email and ask for fee waivers if you have even mildly competitive stats for that school on that note, budget for your application cycle, I ended up spending about $1200 between apps and the lsat, and that’s on the low end there’s so much info on law schools, especially between this site and the ABA 509 disclosures.…
Best advice I got: “you don’t need to stand out, you just need to get in” - Notre Dame admissions rep.
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