I own the WE category in my field. No one has more expertise than me when it comes to being a bum. Here are the reasons: I didn’t choose the bum life, the bum life choose me. I was not born into a rich family. Because there are no such things as rich bums. I was so delusional I started hallucinating during the LSAT,…
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Admitted to Cooley Law SchoolApply early (september) get involved and get a legal job. low LSAT dont matter when the rest of your application is fireee
Cycle Notes Stats Undergrad GPA: 3.63 LSAC GPA: 3.30 - first couple semesters in 2020 quarantine were difficult for me to adjust to. Classes being forced online was not my preferred method of learning, or best way of learning for that matter. Traditional in-person was best for me, a setting where I could actively…
Picking a law school based on where I get the most Hinge matches Wrote all the optionals I could for all of the T14, and an absurd number of LOCIs. In another life I might have chosen Michigan, but I visited UVA and fell in love, and the extra 60k at this point felt pretty worth it for my dream school/clerking…
Someone has to be in the 3%. “You miss 100% off the shots you don’t take.” -Wayne Gretzky
Apply wide. Really wide. Embarrassingly wide. Then let the dust settle and make the smartest boring decision available. Prestige is a fine thing until you’re paying for it with money you don’t have chasing outcomes that aren’t guaranteed. The humble path taken confidently beats the prestigious path taken anxiously…
Patience is everything, don’t check your status everyday because it will consume you. Let what will happen, happen. Also LSAT is not everything, don’t let a score lower your confidence or make you feel less than. The worst part is over, and you will become a lawyer.
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.
Do not quit, ever, you keep it going even at a snails pace.
My mistakes: •Originally considered a gap year to study and work. Instead, I graduated in December 2021 and changed my mind, studying for almost a month and got a 156 on January LSAT. •Applied late in the cycle and got phenomenal responses from low tier and month-long static from my top choices. Be less impulsive,…
Practice all available admission tests and find your strength before committing. Don’t be afraid to use your life story thoughtfully in your personal statement.
Sometimes life just turns you upside down and you have to really look at yourself to decide what you want. Even then, you still may not know. Patience may be a virtue, but that doesn’t mean I have any. (waiting to hear back from schools)
Keep taking the LSAT. And take it in-person. I went 162 -> 168 -> 167 -> 168 -> 175. The last one was the only one I didn’t take at home or in a stupid hotel. Remote test-taking sucks. Go to the testing place.
Let the schools tell YOU no if you have the means to make it rain applications. I strongly suggest 7Sage to study. I also used the LSAT Trainer, and the first 5 pages of the PowerScore Logic games bible.
Grind hard. Make money. Protect the Law.
Everything happens for a reason. Work hard and know you’ve done your best. Above all, have faith and trust the process, and let the chips fall where they may.
You are good enough.
Non-traditional applicant applying with only JD Next score of 800-84th percentile.
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