Hello everyone,

Anybody else interested? I skimmed through a lot of the thread on TLS and was curious if anyone on 7sage was interested as well.

I've always wanted to be in the military ever since I was hmm I want to say about 10-ish years old but due to a pretty bad back injury out of high school the recruiter and I decided it was in my best interest not to join, then after graduating university I was about to enlist but went forward with another dream of mine which is law school (studying for the lsat now) then that got me into considering JAG.

I will be applying for Fall 2017, and am taking the LSAT in September. I want to start asking for LORs asap. Do I need to purchase CAS before I get LORS? Also, when will I be able to see my LSAC GPA? I have submitted all transcripts over a month ago.

Hey everyone, just signed up for 7sage.

I wanted to post and get opinions of people on this discussion board.

My concern falls into letters of recommendations, I never really connected with my professors and my last two jobs don't write letters (I've asked), luckily I had an employer from years ago that said yes but that means I'm missing one letter. My question is should I email all my professors (I moved across the country so I can't ask in person) and try to get a letter that will most likely be generic or should I delay a year, get a job and ask them for a letter?

Oh and my GPA is below 3.0 and the last 5 PTs I've taken have been 165+ (diag was around 150). Sorry my numbers are estimates I can't recall exactly and I'm not home to check haha.

Thank you!

So I am in a very difficult position, I was just offered a position to work with a New York State Senator specifically with criminal justice policies and restorative justice. I have had 3 prior internships. One was with the Manhattan district attorney's office, another with a local county district attorney's office and one with the Bronx Defenders ( public attorneys). I am conflicted about whether or not I should accept the position because I really want to focus on the LSAT because I scored a 158 the first time and want above a 160 and already registered for the September LSAT and the internship requires 10 hours a week on top of my school work ( I am a senior in college). I was wondering would this internship help me at all during the admissions process even if I get a LOR from a New York State senator? Please help!

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How do law schools view "unique" UG majors? I'm coming from a science background (materials engineering to be specific) and I'm wondering if my background will give me an advantage, disadvantage, or not really matter when applying for law schools.

Thanks!

I go to a Canadian University that has grades in percentages. How do these percentages get converted to a US GPA?

Should I write an addendum asking admissions to see my undergraduate transcript for a better reflection of my GPA than the LSAC academic summarization? I had two one credit classes that I was given a "No Credit" for, but these classes were pass/fail and did not count towards my GPA. My GPA is .06 difference between the two reports. Not only this, but I had no idea I was ever enrolled in the classes. While I know I can call my undergrad institution to get them removed, I'm worried I won't have time for this with final deadlines approaching for fall admissions. Does admissions even look at my undergrad transcript or do they only look at the LSAC summarization? Need some advice!

How accurate do you guys think this site is in terms of people posting their actual UGPA/LSAT score?

Hi all,

I've been spared from receiving spam emails from law schools because I never released my info to law schools via LSAC's Candidate Referral Service (CRS). Now that I have my score, I'm wondering whether I should do so just to be safe -- though I'm targeting t-7 schools and I don't think they need to use CRS to recruit. Still, I suppose there's no risk, except annoying spam. What say you all?

Hello,

I have 3 withdraws on my transcripts. Two are the same class, its a hard class and I first tried taking it during an already hard semester, and that did not work out. The second time was this summer, and the professor cancelled class a lot and the first test came back and I flunked. At this point, I could stay in this class get a c, or I could drop it again and have 3 w's. What should I do? This would be a non punitive w. My gpa is high, so a C would make it drop a considerable amount. I just do not know what to do. Which would look worse 3 w's with 2 coming from the same class, or a c. I would rather drop, but just not sure how law schools look at that.

Hi,

So I am riding out a waitlist and received a second email from the school asking for continued interest. I sent one LOCI but am wondering what should the content be of the second? Anyone been through this and might have some suggestions? Any thoughts much appreciated. Thanks!

So I finished undergrad in ’08, which by the way was a really shitty time to graduate, lol. Anyway. So I haven’t worked with my professors in a long long time and I’m not sure how valuable those letters would be. I also feel a little uncomfortable asking someone to vouch for me who I haven’t worked with for the better part of a decade. At best, all those letters can truthfully say is, “he was a great student ten years ago." I can get great professional letters all day long, but I’ve been doing the same work since I graduated and it’s nothing so impressive that I want multiples. So, I’m really not sure what to do.

hello 7sages!

I'm considering buying editing services from 7sage or somewhere else, partly because I'm too busy (working 13+ hours a day), partly because I'm not an English native speaker. Paradoxically, the fact that i'm not a native speaker also stops me from buying editing service, because i'm afraid that the polished statement from David Busis will be too good to be mine.

I browsed a few top law schools' websites, Michigan Law School makes it explicit

May a foreign applicant who does not write well in English use a professional editing service to edit for language and style?

We expect that essays are the work of the applicant. It's one thing to show them to a friend or two for input, but we definitely frown upon a professional service. This is true whether the applicant is a native speaker or not; all too often, U.S. natives will hire "admissions consultants" to actually pen their personal statements, and we view that too as a violation of our expectation that all the work is that of the applicant. You'd be surprised how easily we are able to detect these professionally polished essays. We will often compare the writing style of the LSAT essay with that of the personal statement, for example, and when there's a stark contrast, we'll know why.

Some law schools have similar warning as well.

If it's ghostwriting by editors, it's no doubt a cheating and should be forbidden. But if I have worked hard to the best PS I can produce, and then buy the services I need to compensate my disadvantages (not living in the US, nor a native speaker), it's seems a little in the grey area to me.

But of course, if I know i'm going to have a editor help me, i may rely on him or her rather than trying my best at the very beginning of my personal statement.

I really appreciate all of your help and opinions! Thank you!

I will be applying for law school this fall, and have no idea when I should send my transcripts to LSAC. I have just finished my third year and have 86 credit hours. Is that enough to go ahead and send my transcript?

The law school rankings resource is useful, yet rather incomplete, considering I live in Canada and hope to attend a Canadian school...

What're the chances of one being set up? We don't have that many up here

As we're in the middle of seat deposit season, I thought I'd see where fellow 7Sagers will be attending law school this fall. I'm very happy to be attending Vanderbilt Law School.

note-I didn't see a previous thread on this, but please merge if there already is one.

Hi everyone,

At the end of this long journey of applying to law school, I've had the misfortune of second-guessing myself. I got accepted with no scholarship at NYU, but in the past few days the thought of incurring so much debt has felt daunting. I'm not horribly debt averse, but sticker price just seems overwhelming. My goal is to pursue a career in public interest law, so NYU has been my dream school for the past two years. I thought I could do BigLaw for 2-3 years, pay down as much as I could in that time, and then transition into public interest. With NYU's generous LRAP program, I thought I'd be able to handle the remaining debt. But as @"Jonathan Wang" stated in a previous post, 10 years is an extremely long time and my interests and goals could change drastically in the meantime.

With strong softs and an acceptable GPA, I'm confident that the only reason I haven't been offered financial aid at NYU and have been waitlisted at my other top choices is because of my LSAT score.

I had originally planned on applying to law school in 2014, but postponed in order to re-take the LSAT. Now I'm wondering, should I continue working another year and re-take and re-apply in the fall? I think I'd need to increase my score about 4 points in order to get generous financial aid from Chicago/Columbia or get accepted into HYS.

When I took the LSAT last time in October, I felt like I hadn't reached my full potential on the LSAT. However, I'm afraid that taking the LSAT a fourth time is very risky; what if my score decreases, stays the same, or only increases one or two points? Should I just count my blessings and go to NYU this fall?

What do you guys think? You guys have always been supportive and helpful in the past; any thoughts/advice would be greatly appreciated :)

I am aware that the most important factors in the law school admissions are LSAT scores and undergraduate GPA. However I don't have an undergraduate GPA since it is from an international institution (LSAC will only evaluate the score and give a rate but doesn't calculate the GPA for international institutions). I only have graduate level GPA from US institutions.

How should I improve and add some strong softs to compensate for that? I know military experience is a plus, how about military spouses? Is being a military spouse also a plus?

Thank you~!

I've been accepted to two T-14 schools and am now trying to compare the different LRAPs and general student debt assistance programs they offer. I'm unfamiliar with some of the terms and don't fully understand some of the conditions for the programs. Does anyone know where I can get a good, easy-to-understand, general explanation of how these programs work? Would be immensely grateful for the help :)

Hello,

I received my first scholarship offer last night. I applied late in the cycle so I am just now hearing back from schools.

How should one go about emailing adcomms? Should I just thank them and let them know that I will be waiting for other schools to also decide before accepting any offers>?

Thats what I have heard from many people. But just wanted to see what my 7sagers have to say!

Thanks

I have a deadline to accept a scholarship from one school, but I want to wait for my dream school's financial aid package before making a decision. Does anyone know if there are any serious repercussions to accepting the scholarship offer and then withdrawing my application from that school if I'm happy with the financial aid from my dream school? I don't think it's fair to give someone a one-week deadline to make such a huge financial decision, and if I'm not given an extension (which I've asked for), I'm trying to weigh all of my options. Any advice would be appreciated!

i was wondering what peoples thoughts were. Basically taking an acceptance from one school and show it to competitor schools in hopes of the competitor school to offer a better package to accept their offer instead. For example, im trying to get a 170 on the LSAT so i can get an acceptance letter from Vanderbilt. i would like to take that to another school thats maybe lower in ranking or in the same geographical area and see if they would offer me more scholarship/grant/stipens to accept their school instead. if its possible i would like to try it against schools such as Bama or Ole Miss (theyre all in the SEC) or maybe a school like Southern Methodist University. With the cost of law school as is and being from Canada, anything i can do to get as much of it paid by the school i go to i will. if anyone has tried doing this, how has that worked out for you?

So where does it look like everyone will be come August? Granted there is still some time before things become totally official but most of us should have a decent idea by now.

So far it is looking like Notre Dame for me, though it's not official yet

Hey y'all,

Due to popular demand, we've added a Law School Admissions discussion category (also known as a sub-forum). If you want to make or find posts related specifically to the admissions process, you can make/find them under Not LSAT > Law School Admissions. I'll be sorting recent posts of this nature into that container for you to peruse and enjoy.

Happy LSAT'ing, future lawyers!