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Let me begin this with some context: I have never qualified for any type of diversity related situation in my life. However, somebody said something to me the other day that popped a lightbulb on in my head and now I need your advice 7sage...

I am a twenty-something year old without social media. That's right, not a single one. Zilch. Do you think that would fly? The group of people I was talking to informed me that I was the only person they knew in the world (lol) that didn't at least have facebook.

My initial thought was to spin it as not being influenced by Silicon Valley algorithms all day (no offense), and how disconnecting myself from that sort of content has opened up both my mind and my personality more to other's point of view.

Am I crazy? Will an adcom laugh me out of the building?

#HELP

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Hi everyone. I attended three schools to obtain my undergrad. First I was dual enrolled and graduated high school with my associates degree. Then I went to Northwestern where I didn't have a great time. Many issues and some problems left me with academic dismissal after I left the university midway through a semester and didn't finish out the year. I then went to FIU and used none of the credits obtained at northwestern, just the credits I got from my associates. So my question is do I have to submit transcripts from northwestern at all? Or can I choose to omit them since they had no bearing on my collegiate career?

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I originally planned to apply to both PhDs (history, just finished a Master's with a 4.0 at UChicago) and, separately, JDs this cycle (have worked in a lot of paralegal and legal research jobs); but I made veeery slow to no progress on the LSAT, and it became clear to me by November, when I needed to focus on getting the PhD applications out the door, that it was unlikely I would reach a super competitive LSAT score for this cycle (which would be necessary given my terrible UGPA at Princeton - 2.51 10 years ago due to medical issues long since resolved). I determined to finish the PhD applications and then make a decision on whether or not it made sense to apply in January/February with my current GRE score.

I'm now at the juncture of trying to understand how my current GRE score stacks up (170 Verbal 99%, 159 Quant 69%). The ETS's GRE-to-LSAT calculator says this is equivalent to a 172 (weighting the verbal 60% and the quant 40%). But I see on 7Sage that that conversion is not necessarily followed by law school admissions and that the best indicator is the GRE percentile. However, since the GRE does not provide an overall percentile, my question is, how should I look at those two separate percentiles for the GRE verbal and quant scores and figure out what an overall percentile is roughly? Would I look at the two percentiles evenly, weighting them 50-50, or, like the ETS conversion calculator assumes, weight the verbal percentile more? And how much more?

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Hello,

So I received an email today because I accidentally selected yes for one of my character and fitness questions on one of my applications when I meant to mark no for all. I immediately responded and told them it was a careless mistake and the person followed-up by saying that they appreciated my prompt response, that they made a note in my file, and are now preparing my application for review.

I think this is a positive response, but I am still embarrassed and worried. Does anyone know if this happens more often than I think it does and if it will be okay? I am just worried this mistake will negatively affect my application.

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Hi can anyone with experience with this please give me some insight! I am beginning the process of getting my LORs in order. I am conflicted about the access rights waiver. The LSAC says they encourage you to waive your right to view your recommender's submitted letter so that they are more candid. They claim that in return law schools will look more favorably upon your application. I am hesitant to wave them just so I can see which letters are strongest before choosing which to attach to my applications. Does waiving your rights really make that much of a difference? Any information or advice is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

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It seems like only some schools have the NALP reports available. Is this not required because it is all self reported? I see all the employment outcomes for the schools I’m looking at but only found about half of the NALP reports?

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So happy to say I've accepted an offer at my top choice! Deposit down and ready for the fall! Anyone else make their decision yet? I would love to hear everyone's hard work pay off!

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When law schools evaluate geographic diversity, do we know if it's based on your undergrad institution or where you are a permanent resident now? (3 yrs out of undergrad)

Trying to determine if being a permanent resident of KS vs CO is helpful to my app. (went to school in KS)

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Hi all. Hope y'all are well.

Like a spectacular idiot, I underreported my GPA on the resume I submitted to law schools.

Not by much, just 0.05

I know they will see my real GPA on my transcripts, and I assume they will consider that number over the one I misreported.

Any chance I need to do something like email them a corrected version of my resume with my real GPA or am I being neurotic?

Thanks buds!

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So basically I'm applying in Feb. and my GPA is currently a 3.54 but next semester I'm doing an internship program for credit and you get As in all 12 credits pretty much automatically and that would def boost my GPA to like a 3.6 and I'm sure that would be advantageous to my application. How should I go about using this to my advantage? Could I add an addendum and if I did..would they care? I'm hoping that the GPA I actually graduate with would be reported in the rankings (which I assume would be the only consideration for GPA in terms of a tiny difference such as this).

Thoughts?

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Hey 7sagers,

I will be reapplying to law school this year. I like my previous personal statement, however, there are some changes I will be making.

Admissions counselors recommend not submitting the same exact personal statement twice and I will not be doing that, but i am wondering how much one is expected to change their personal statement when reapplying? Also, any recommendations of editing services?

Thank you!

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Hey guys, this is really just a rant from me because I just finished my NU Kira interview and let's just say no amount of practice prepared me lmfao The questions weren't tough by any means, but as someone who has pretty bad anxiety, I just choked for like 3/6 of the questions. I did become more comfortable for the last 4 questions, but oof. I did 24 rounds of practice and still managed to slaughter myself in the 6 question interview LOL brb while I go cry in a corner since I may have just ruined my chances lmfao Good luck to everyone who is still applying and are interviewing soon!🥲🥲 If anyone has some interesting interview stories or rants they would like to tell, please comment below. I'm going to need some funny stories to get over this.

Edit: if anyone had a bad interview and still got admitted, please comment below. Need some sort of hope 😂😭

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Hi everyone,

The ABA has published its 2020 509 reports. We've updated our resources to include (1) the most recent medians for every law school and (2) a bunch of other data. New and exciting this year: we can finally see some statistics on GRE scores.

See the new medians here (in the same Coda doc that has application requirements) or here (a Google spreadsheet—scroll right for GRE information).

We've highlighted the changes between this year's medians and last year's here.

We've pulled out some of the most interesting ABA data for each school here.

A few quick points of interest:

  • Georgetown and Harvard each admitted more students by GRE (44 and 36) than any other law school, and more by percent (7.26% and 7.19%) than all but six other law schools.

  • Harvard's GRE medians (167/163/5 for Verbal/Quant/Writing) have percentiles of about 98, 84, and 93. Contrast that with their LSAT median of 173, which is about a 99th percentile score.

  • T14 LSAT medians were static. Only Chicago changed its median—with an increase of one. (There was a bit more movement in 25th and 75th LSAT percentiles and in GPA percentiles, but not a lot.)

  • Yield is funny. Did you know, for example, that Indiana University's McKinney School of Law has a better yield (48.48%) than Harvard (45.97%)?

    • Happy exploring, and happy New Year's!

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    Hi guys. Hope all are well.

    Certain schools have emailed me with offers of a merit-based fee waiver. They specified that I don't need to use any kind of code, and the application fee should be automatically waived when I go to checkout on LSAC.

    However, when I tried submitting my apps last night my application fees weren't waived for some of the schools that had sent me such an email.

    Has this happened to anyone else? Also, what do you think I should do...

  • Wait until admissions offices open next week and call them about this issue, then submit.

  • Submit and pay now, then write/call them next week to ask for refunds.

    • I.E. Should I be submit ASAP because of rolling admissions, or submit a week from now to ensure I get these waivers? Does it even matter if I submit a week from now, since no one is in the admissions offices anyways?

    Thanks so much y'all. (3(/p)

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