These are the questions Yale recommends applicants prepare for their interview. Your interview will focus on questions selected from this list.

1. Based on your career aspirations, why Yale Law School?

2. Can you describe a time when your work was criticized?

3. Can you describe your study habits?

4. Can you tell me about an academic or professional disappointment and how you responded?

5. Could you tell me more about your current position and describe what you most like and don’t like about it?

6. Describe a conversation you’ve had with someone with whom you disagree.

7. Describe a significant academic project you completed during your undergraduate education and why you chose that project.

8. Describe a time when you struggled academically and how you responded to that challenge.

9. Describe an experience that humbled you.

10. Describe the work you pursued [are pursuing] during your graduate degree and why you chose to pursue that degree.

11. Describe your leadership style.

12. Describe your thesis and why you chose that topic.

13. How do you approach conversations with people with whom you disagree?

14. How do you handle conflict?

15. How do you like to spend your time?

16. How do you think your classmates would describe you as a fellow student?

17. How would you describe your ideal peer community at the law school?

18. If you could teach a course on any topic, what would it be and why?

19. If you worked in the admissions office at YLS, what would you see as your biggest strength?

20. If you worked in the admissions office at YLS, what would you see as your biggest weakness?

21. Tell me about a course you found challenging and how you approached that course.

22. Tell me about a time that you disagreed with a rule or policy and how you handled it.

23. Tell me about a time that you’ve been a member of a group that disagreed and how you handled that.

24. Tell me about a time that you’ve changed your mind.

25. Tell me about a time when you made a significant mistake and what you learned from that experience.

26. Think back to a class that was challenging for you. How do you think the professor of that course would describe you as a student?

27. Walk me through something on your resume that you’d like to highlight and explain why you chose it.

28. What are three words that describe your character?

29. What are you passionate about?

30. What are your career goals?

31. What do you believe are the pros and cons of attending Yale Law School?

32. What factors are most important to you when choosing a law school?

33. What is a legal issue that you’re passionate about exploring at Yale Law School?

34. What is a legal issue that you’re passionate about exploring?

35. What is something that you’d like the admissions team to know that may not be easily gleaned from your application?

36. What is your ideal learning environment?

37. What is your most significant achievement?

38. What motivates you?

39. Where do you see yourself five years after graduating from law school?

40. Which Yale Law School programs are you interested in?

41. Why did you decide to apply to law school now?

42. Why do you want to attend law school?

These are the questions Yale recommends applicants prepare for their interview. Your interview will focus on questions selected from this list.

1. Based on your career aspirations, why Yale Law School?

2. Can you describe a time when your work was criticized?

3. Can you describe your study habits?

4. Can you tell me about an academic or professional disappointment and how you responded?

5. Could you tell me more about your current position and describe what you most like and don’t like about it?

6. Describe a conversation you’ve had with someone with whom you disagree.

7. Describe a significant academic project you completed during your undergraduate education and why you chose that project.

8. Describe a time when you struggled academically and how you responded to that challenge.

9. Describe an experience that humbled you.

10. Describe the work you pursued [are pursuing] during your graduate degree and why you chose to pursue that degree.

11. Describe your leadership style.

12. Describe your thesis and why you chose that topic.

13. How do you approach conversations with people with whom you disagree?

14. How do you handle conflict?

15. How do you like to spend your time?

16. How do you think your classmates would describe you as a fellow student?

17. How would you describe your ideal peer community at the law school?

18. If you could teach a course on any topic, what would it be and why?

19. If you worked in the admissions office at YLS, what would you see as your biggest strength?

20. If you worked in the admissions office at YLS, what would you see as your biggest weakness?

21. Tell me about a course you found challenging and how you approached that course.

22. Tell me about a time that you disagreed with a rule or policy and how you handled it.

23. Tell me about a time that you’ve been a member of a group that disagreed and how you handled that.

24. Tell me about a time that you’ve changed your mind.

25. Tell me about a time when you made a significant mistake and what you learned from that experience.

26. Think back to a class that was challenging for you. How do you think the professor of that course would describe you as a student?

27. Walk me through something on your resume that you’d like to highlight and explain why you chose it.

28. What are three words that describe your character?

29. What are you passionate about?

30. What are your career goals?

31. What do you believe are the pros and cons of attending Yale Law School?

32. What factors are most important to you when choosing a law school?

33. What is a legal issue that you’re passionate about exploring at Yale Law School?

34. What is a legal issue that you’re passionate about exploring?

35. What is something that you’d like the admissions team to know that may not be easily gleaned from your application?

36. What is your ideal learning environment?

37. What is your most significant achievement?

38. What motivates you?

39. Where do you see yourself five years after graduating from law school?

40. Which Yale Law School programs are you interested in?

41. Why did you decide to apply to law school now?

42. Why do you want to attend law school?

1. Tell me a bit about the work you pursued during your graduate degree and why you chose to pursue that degree.

2. “Perfect segway” to hear a bit about what you are up to now.

3. Which Yale Law School programs are you interested in? (Asked about specific clinics as a follow up)

4. What is your most significant achievement?

5. Describe a time when you struggled academically and how you responded to that challenge. / Tell me about a course you found challenging and how you approached that course. How would the professor describe you?

6. Tell me about a time you had a conversation with someone you disagreed with.

7. Where do you see yourself five years after graduating from law school?/ "You make pretty clear what you're interested in working on, but how do you see yourself building your career early on in those first few years out of law school?"

1. What is a book you've read that has impacted you, and why?

2. What is something you learned from each place you've lived in?

3. What type of organizations are you looking at to work after graduation?

4. What are you currently obsessed with?

1. What is a book you've read that has impacted you, and why?

2. What is something you learned from each place you've lived in?

3. What type of organizations are you looking at to work after graduation?

4. What are you currently obsessed with?

1. Why UChicago?

2. What do you like about working as a paralegal?

3. Do you want to work in BigLaw?

4. Do you have any questions?

1.    Why law?

2.    What would you enjoy about the day-to-day aspects of being a lawyer?

3.    Why UVA?

4.    How could you see yourself getting involved with the UVA community? 

5.    Tell me about a nonacademic challenge you have faced and how you overcame it.

1. Why law?

2. Why UVA?

3. Tell me stories about your time in undergrad.

1. Why law?

2. Why UVA?

3. Where do you see yourself career-wise after graduation?

4. Tell me about a difficult experience that you've overcome.

5. How do you see yourself getting involved in the UVA community?

6. What's something you're looking forward to?

7. Do you have any questions for me?

1. Why law?

2. Why Penn?

3. Explain to us a little more about your multiple attempts on the LSAT.

4. Which student organization would you be interested in?

5. Do you have any questions for us?

Toward the end, she explained a bit about the process.```

1. Explain your journey from your previous career to law.

2. What's been your exposure to law so far?

3. What do you plan to draw on from your previous background?

4. How do you see yourself contributing to the community and what student organizations were you involved with in undergrad?

1. Tell me about your journey from choosing your undergrad degree to your decision to apply to law school.

2. Tell me about an experience you had in an extracurricular, internship, or job that makes you proud, particularly one where you have to dig in.

3. Law school goes by quickly. What sort of things do you hope to do in law school?

4. Imagine you're sitting with your career counselor at Duke Law before starting 1L fall. What sorts of things would you tell them you hope to accomplish in your career after law school?

5. Do you have any questions for me?

1. Why Law?

2. What are you doing at your current job and what have you learned from it?

3. How do you see yourself? How would you engage with HLS community and your peers?

4. You mentioned you want to pursue a field of law that is tangent to technology. But what area are you exactly interested in?

5. What makes you most excited about HLS?

6. Do you have any questions for me?

1. What has been your biggest takeaway during your time as a (current job)?

2. Why is now the right time for you to go to law school?

3. What are you excited about for law school?

4. What will you be like in the classroom and community at HLS?

5. What do you think will be the Pros and Cons of Harvard?

6. What are your short term and long term goals after graduation from law school?

7. Tell me about a time you failed and how you responded to it.

8. Ask me 1-2 questions.

1. What do you like most about current role?

2. Follow up question, since I transitioned in a new role

3. What challenges do expect at Harvard Law? What are you excited for?

4. Describe a time you changed your mind.

5. Why law? Why law now?

6. Why Harvard?

7. What will you contribute to the Harvard community?

1. What inspires me?

2. Why law?

3. Name a time when you overcame adversity.

4. Why Michigan?

5. Who or what has contributed to your success?

1. How does NYU align with your career goals?

2. Name a time you encountered a problem, how did you solve it?

3. Name a time you were struggling on a task, how did you move past that?

4. What social issue are you passionate about and why?

5. NYU has a diverse group of students, how would you help make sure that all voices are heard and understood?

The student only had 45 seconds to prep for each question.

1. Why NYU?

2. Why law?

3. Tell me about an idea you had that led to a success.

4. How did you overcome a challenge?

5. How do you make sure that everyone’s ideas are heard in a group?

6. [Question about meaningful projects during undergrad]

7. [Question about social issues that you are interested in]

1. What type of student are you now, and how is that different from a year ago?

2. How would you describe yourself as a student in one word?

3. What excites you most about going to law school?

4. What are you going to specifically contribute to the Columbia Law community?

5. Tell me about how you contributed to your community in college.

6. Tell me about your experience with your college.

1. Where are you located and what you are doing right now?

2. Do you have a thesis? What would you like to write about?

3. Why Law?

4. Why Columbia?

5. What do you like to do in your free time?

6. Do you have any questions?

7. What do you learned from your internship?

1. What have you been busy with?

2. Where do you see yourself in one or two years after graduation?

3. Why ED to Columbia Law?

4. Questions for me?

5. Why J.D. since you already have an education background in law and are qualified to practice law in China?

1. Why Law?

2. Why NU?

3. Name a time you were overwhelmed by your work and explain the outcomes

4. What is the best example of your leadership skills?

1. Why law?

2. Why Northwestern?

3. Best example of leadership experience

Why law?

2.    Why Northwestern?

3.    Describe a leadership experience

4.    Describe a time you felt overwhelmed by your workload and how you overcame the challenge?

B (Distinguished Scholars Interview)

1. Why UCLA

2. Why law

3. I was asked about campus organizing during college

4. Majority of my interview was about high vs low tuition and scholarships being harmful to the larger student body. I was not expecting the majority of my interview to be a discussion on tuition, but in the end we ran out of time and I was not able to ask questions.

Overall, it was informal, conversational, and everyone was really friendly.

1. Views on food policy

2. Interest in mycology

The interview was with the director of admissions. The student was an ED applicant.

1. Why UCLA?

2. What would teammates and coworkers say about you? What do they like about working with you?

3. What would you like to do after school?

4. Where do you see yourself in the future?

5. How did you choose your college?

6. How did you end up at your current job?

1- What specific program (clinic, project, etc.) you'd be interested in and why.

2- What role logical reasoning plays in law.

• Describe why you are applying to Berkeley. Provide specific courses, programs, clinics that you are interested in.

• What would you do if you discovered you made a mistake on a project you were working on/tell us about a time you have made a mistake? How would you/did you handle it?

Looking beyond the four corners of your application, please share more about why you are applying to law school by answering one or more of the following questions:

1. What about you (your experiences, your values, your perspective, etc.) calls you to law school?

2. How will you use your law degree with integrity, vision, creativity, and/or to innovate?

3. What makes you hopeful, optimistic, or excited about entering the legal profession?

4. How do you see yourself contributing to or advancing the public good as a lawyer, scholar, or advocate?

4 minutes, or 500 words maximum

You can do either a video or a written answer (but not both).

Introduction:

1. Your Name

2. Where you're from

3. Where you're currently residing or studying

4. A fun fact about yourself

Case Discussions:

1. Case A: Stellar applicant with dean's appraisal, AI plagiarism issue during freshman year. Rate the issue minor to major.

2. Case B: Oxford withdrawal case, To rescind or not to rescind.

3. Case C: Sloppy PS with typos that was addressed to the wrong school. Rate 1-10.

Closing:

1. One word to describe a successful applicant

Case Discussions:

1. Case A: About a student using Chat GPT on something they had to turn in and getting suspended for a semester

2. Case B: About a student who dropped out of their graduate program at Oxford due to having to go in front of the honor board

3. Case C: A student who had lots of errors in their personal statement, but all their LORs were about how great of a writer they were

1. Case A: About a student using Chat GPT on something they had to turn in and getting suspended for a semester

2. Case B: About a student who dropped out of their graduate program at Oxford due to having to go in front of the honor board

3. Case C: A student who had lots of errors in their personal statement, but all their LORs were about how great of a writer they were

There are 4 video questions and one written question. You start by reading instructions. Then they take you to a page where you have the chance to do a recorded practice question.

Each question starts with a short video of an alumni or faculty reading the question. You then have (if I remember correctly) 30 seconds to think of your response. It may have been 1 minute, but I can't remember for sure.

Here are the questions asked:

1. How do you respond to challenges and name a time you were challenged

2. What is the role lawyers play in our society?

3. How did COVID-19 impact you?

4. What is the biggest problem facing our country and how would you fix it?

Then you have 15 minutes to complete a written question. The word limit is 300. The question is:

1. Why do you want to go to UT and what do you think you can bring to the UT Law community?

1. Tell me about a time you were challenged while working on a team. What did you do to solve the problem?

2. When did you decide you wanted to become a lawyer? What prompted that interest?

1. Tell me about a time you were challenged while working on a team. What did you do to solve the problem?

2. When did you decide you wanted to become a lawyer? What prompted that interest?

1. Questions about undergrad majors and internship.

2. Why Law?

3. Why Vandy?

1. Tell me about yourself

2. Why law?

1. Tell me about yourself/what is your path to law school?

2. Why are you interested in Vanderbilt?

3. Why are you interested in law? Have you narrowed down a specific area by talking to people?

1.    Why WashU?

2.    What are you planning to do until law school starts?

3.    What are your short-term and long-term goals?

1. Why law?

2. Why WashU?

3. How would you handle challenges?

4. What are your future career goals?

1. Tell me about yourself

2. What have you been doing in your past year?

3. Question related to experience on resume that was discussed in PS

4. Why WashU?

Video Interview Prompts (they give you 45 seconds or a minute to prepare for and three minutes to answer)

1. Tell us about a time you failed at something you put a lot of work into and how you dealt with it.

2. A time you disagreed with someone (coworker, family member, or friend) and what happened (how you discussed it, what you said, etc).

3. How you deal with conflict with coworkers, peers in an extracurricular, etc—a time when it happened, and how you deal with it.

4. How you keep and utilize your contacts to reach out and get advice/discuss when you have a challenge.

Written responses. (For the first question, they gave me five minutes. Then the next two were three minutes each.)

1. What was your favorite project you’ve done outside of work or school?

2. What would you do if you could do anything you wanted for a day?

3. What have you learned about yourself from your law school application process?

1. How much time do you spend on social media?

2. Some pretext about the environment and sustainability, and so how do you practice sustainability in your daily life?

1. Choose a policy position from a past presidential campaign. How would you advise the president on this topic?

1. Which UMN campus organization would you join and why

2. What is your favorite book or movie and why?

1. What Minnesota Law club/org would you join or start?

2. What destination birthday party would you pick if you could pick anywhere?

1. What Minnesota Law club/org would you join or start?

2. What destination birthday party would you pick if you could pick anywhere?

The count down from the question and the recording is about 5-10 seconds I think, then 30 seconds to answer it.