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Advice applicants left on their LSD.Law profiles, searchable by topic, school, and stats.
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Admitted to Hofstra UniversityYou gotta jump in to swim! When choosing which schools to apply to, I focused on location (mainly the northeast) and maximizing scholarship opportunities/minimizing debt burden. I relied on 509 reports to see which schools are the most generous with scholarships and from there, applied to mostly to schools where I…
Get off Reddit and touch grass.
If anyone finds it interesting that someone with my stats got waitlisted to BLS, PM me.
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take! Everyone can count you out, but the one person in the world that should believe in your capabilities is yourself. Just apply.** ** 05/07/2025: My cycle is officially over! Heading off to Cornell in the fall. Please, bet on yourself!
LSAT 162 GPA 3.81 2025–26 cycle
Admitted to Pennsylvania State - Dickinson Law
A rejection isn’t a bad thing, it helps narrow you to the place you’re meant to be
After 20 years out of high school, a full professional career, and raising my 18-year-old son as a single mother… I am finally attending law school. I just graduated from undergrad in May 2023, so my journey is very different than most, but my advice is all the same… shoot your shot, especially as a minority or…
When trying to decide on a school, trust yourself. You’ve done the research. Don’t let strangers on the internet pressure you into life-altering debt or going to a school that just didn’t feel like the best fit. You got this! :)
*** Off the UNH Waitlist, my top pick! I sent one formal LOCI, a handful of informal ones, two additional letters of recommendation, and increased my LSAT from 152 to 161 - all after being placed on the waitlist in January. *** R&R, previous year’s results are under ‘mayungiles’. Reapplying because the Army offered…
For all my “top choice” schools, I wrote “Why X” school essays. I also tried to maintain point of contact with people in admissions when I could or when there were no “Zoom” admissions events (scheduled a call with an admissions officer, asked questions that I may have already known the answer to, etc.) just so that…
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…
Apply as early and broadly as you possibly can. If you’re not BigLaw-or-bust, don’t go to the fanciest school that accepts you. Go to any school with adequate career outcomes that you personally like and can most easily afford. If you won’t be satisfied outside the T14, be prepared to R&R no matter your stats.
-public interest inclined girlie (civil rights/human rights/immigration) -spring 2024 recent graduate -apply widely if ur a fellow reverse splitter !!!! final notes: -cycle went far better than i thought - essays will make or break you if you are a splitter or reverse splitter. ZERO rejections. i wish i tried…
Applying: October 1st-November 16th URM: Hispanic Female T3: Disability, Co-founder of Small Personal Finance Company Work Experience: Pro-bono, Family Law, Criminal Law Extra-Curriculars: Election volunteer, Pre-Law Society President, Mock Trial Team member, United Culture Organization, Spanish Culture Club,…
Having an abysmal undergrad GPA is not ideal but isn’t the end of the world. Getting at least a 160 on the LSAT opens a ton of doors. In hindsight I waited way too long between undergrad and law school due to my undergrad performance. Ideally, a 3 year separation between end of college and start of law school…
Suffolk Law - Accelerated J.D. Program (Got status update at like 9:30 AM; E-mail at 4:45 PM). CUNY Law - Received e-mail at 7:00 PM (E-mail and status update at the same time). Hofstra Law - Accepted via status checker at (4:40 PM). Email and scholarship email (they’re two separate emails) two hours later (in spam).
Life didn’t end when I got a 126 on my diagnostic and a 146 on my first LSAT
Make sure you have safety schools!!! Scholarships > Rankings
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