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Advice applicants left on their LSD.Law profiles, searchable by topic, school, and stats.

LSAT 155 GPA 3.40 2022–23 cycle

Admitted to Drake University

My priority was staying out of debt, so I used this site to maximize my scholarship potential. You should too! I didn’t apply to any “reach schools”, only schools were people with similar stats got a decent scholarship. My number one piece of advice is to prioritize staying out of debt over rank or prestige. I’ve…

LSAT 158 GPA 4.12 2021–22 cycle

Attending University of Colorado—Boulder

Applied early in the cycle, wanted to give myself the best chances for admission/scholarships knowing that I have a mediocre LSAT score. I attended a small liberal arts university for undergrad, where I majored in Business Administration, and double-minored in pre-law and German. I was a four-year NCAA…

LSAT 150 GPA 2.96 2020–21 cycle

Attending University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

I didn’t write any additional essays. I also focused my personal statement specifically to Arkansas and Mississippi. I worked since I graduated high school and obtained a director role while raising 3 children. So though my lsat score wasn’t great and my gpa looks terrible, the last two years I got all As but during…

LSAT 165 GPA 3.63 2025–26 cycle

Admitted to Temple University

Another thing, of course, is life will have terrible blows, horrible blows, unfair blows. It doesn’t matter. And some people recover and others don’t. Every mischance in life [is] an opportunity to learn something and your duty [is] not to be submerged in self-pity, but to utilize the[se] terrible blow[s] in a…

LSAT 165 GPA 3.60 2025–26 cycle

Attending Duquesne University

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…