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

LSAT 156 GPA 3.86 2025–26 cycle

Attending University of San Francisco

…applicants but exacerbates anxiety for current applicants. splitters: apply as early as u possibly can, and pour ur heart and soul into your essays, even the optional ones first-gens: weigh your options! meaningful upward mobility + minimal debt > prestige (imo) :) love u down, a first-gen splitter

LSAT 173 GPA 3.27 2021–22 cycle

Attending University of Virginia

The Big Lessons From My Cycle: The biggest lesson to take from my cycle in particular is that, for super-splitters like myself (below every 25th uGPA median and above every 75th LSAT median), writing really strong essays can move the needle and make you stand out from the big crowd of “very good but flawed” T14…

LSAT 163 GPA 3.94 2020–21 cycle

Admitted to George Mason University

-Reverse Splitter -Late applicant due to personal circumstances -Relatively unknown state school undergraduate -Took some graduate classes with a 4.0 grad GPA -Wrote why x for some but not all schools -Included diversity statement in all possible applications -Applied to schools in every tier because this cycle left…

LSAT 166 GPA 3.98 2020–21 cycle

Attending Duke University

Good luck! If you are a reverse splitter really try to have a memorable personal statement! I think taking a bit of a risk there paid off for me.