Stats: 163 LSAT (Retaking in November; PTing high 160s) GPA: 3.1 (I know; I don't speak of it); Not URM; Strong softs (Fed. government experience)

I am only going to ED to a place that offers a full ride scholarship, as I really don't see the point of paying sticker to get a decision early or get into a school a couple rankings higher.

Here are the three options I'm considering:

(1) George Washington Law (Presidential Scholarship) - It's a reachhhh (Chances are low; I know)

Pros - DC fits with my resume/experience, Top 25; Con - Odds are low; might be throwing away my ED.

(2) George Mason (Scalia Law Scholars) - It's a reach, but less of a reach than GW. Still unlikely.

Pros - Near DC (See above); I have family in Virginia. Cons - A lot of better schools in the area.

(3) Arizona State (O'Conners Merit) - It's a reach, but I might actually have a slight chance of getting this one, which is a bit scary as I'm not sure I want to live in Arizona. Nothing against Arizona, I'm sure it's a great place, just it's not high on my list personally.

Pros - Top 25; Con - Arizona

Other pertinent info: I'm a Florida resident (aiming for UF Law)/my family is in Florida. I'm 25 (so I'm not sure if I'm considered a nontraditional applicant. I think I'm on the line).

Hey there,

Does anyone have advice on strategies or resources for deciding to which schools I should apply? I have looked at the lsat/gpa predictors, and I'm more interested in how you distinguish between schools within the ranges. For context, for undergrad I knew what school I liked, applied ED, and went. So I am new to school researching and gauging likelihood of acceptance.

Any advice would be appreciated! TIA!

The 7Sage law school admissions site says you probably shouldn't write about mental illness and I am wondering why. If the purpose of a personal statement is to share something that happened and how you learned from it, why would mental illness be off the table? Surely schools can't reject you on the basis of you identifying as mentally ill right?

Hi guys

for the personal statement, do you think its okay to write about having anxiety and overcoming it as well as how it helped shape you into who you are today? i also make it clear that i do not struggle with it anymore, bc i know ive seen things where people say they might be biased against that

thank you!

Good afternoon everyone,

I had a quick question about C&F formatting. I have to disclose two incidents and wanted to know if I should separate them by pages, or by headers/ titles? Neither one fills a page but was wondering if I should put them on separate pages regardless

I am wondering if anyone would like to do an exchange proofreading of Personal Statements. I proofread yours and give you my thoughts. You proofread mine and give me your thoughts. I feel like it just helps to have a second set of eyes look over it. If anyone is up for that, message me!

Hi everyone! I'm thinking about applying to Berkeley Law School, but I would first really like to talk to a current student or alum to find out more about the school's culture and academics.

If anyone knows of someone currently at Berkeley or a graduate who would be willing to speak with me over email, please let me know!

I took the LSAT today and I realized that I misdiagrammed one of the games entirely. It could be the case that I still got a couple of them right, but I am trying to decide whether I cancel my score or not.

I have a 169 from the July LSAT, and I was hoping to submit applications after receiving this score back. I am worried that if I missed all the questions from one game, I might not get a score higher than 169. I want a score in the 170's. If I cancel my score or if I get a score at or below 169, and take again in November (October deadline has passed), I worry about my application being turned in a month and a half later than when I had planned to turn it in. I also worry about committees seeing that I took the test three times in one year.

Any advice is welcome!

Hi all,

I realize this is probably a silly question but I'm a first-time test-taker and I'm a bit confused. Can you choose which LSAT score you send to schools, or will they see the scores of all of your attempts? I ask this because I don't really see the point in paying for a "score preview" if you are able to choose which score to send. Why would you cancel a score for a test you paid for? Wouldn't you want to see how you did, regardless of how poorly you may have done? Thanks in advance! :)

I took the August LSAT a few days ago and am planning on retaking it in October just to be safe. Should I apply as soon as possible, even if I don't know all of my scores yet, or submit at the end of October once I know both scores?

I just applied to a few law schools today. I'm already feeling anxious about waiting for decisions. I know I most likely won't hear back for months.

If any of you have applied to law school in the past, when did you hear back? Also, if anyone has any advice on how to relax while waiting, I'd love to know!

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This is random, but!

Does anyone internalize it when a law school emails you and tells you they'll waive the application fee? Is that their way of saying they want you there, and you'd be very likely to get accepted if you apply?

I'm gearing to take the LSAT for the second time, but I'm getting emails from all these schools that I've been considering, and it makes me wonder if I'm wasting my time taking it again and studying like crazy, if I'm already gonna get into the schools I want to get into.

Any input would be greatly appreciated!

I planned to apply for the 2019 - 2020 cycle and my LSAT didn't go as well. Now that I am scoring near my goal score with a significant 20 point improvement I will be applying this upcoming cycle but wondered if it is ok to use one of my old LORs from Dec 2019. The LOR that I am thinking of is from a professor who taught me years ago in undergrad and is now the president of a Fortune 500 so pretty busy...I've asked for several letters from him in the past as well so was thinking to just use his letter that is already on my LSAC account from December 2019 which he stated was very detailed. Has anyone used an older letter or have any advice regarding this? This would be the only letter from undergrad which I've been out of for about 3 - 4 years so I cannot replace it. The other letters will be more current from my now workplace and a gap year fellowship.

Hey guys! Starting this for general questions, comments, concerns regarding fall 2021 admissions and decisions! Feel free to comment where you’re applying and for those who have been through already, when can the rest of ya expect decisions?

Hello when I was originally applying to law school, I was going to apply my senior year of college and so my professors from my major and my two minors wrote me letters based on my performance up until the fall of my senior year. Those letters are up on LSAC/CAS already. Should I ask them to update it since I graduated in May 2019 and did classes that spring? As well as have worked since then? I have been working since I graduated, should I include/ ask my supervisors from my position for a letter?

Hi all,

I'm writing because I am curious if anyone knows whether law schools care to see an upward trend in undergraduate GPA. My first two years were tough and I spent my later years working hard to earn mostly A's and a few B's just to raise my GPA. My final GPA is a 3.05. I am dedicated to law school and want to showcase my growth as a student and as an individual. I sat down with one of my recommenders and he said that he would like to touch on the financial issues I had as a young college student that affected my grades during the first two years. I am wondering if that is enough, or if I should touch on it in my personal statement, or write an addendum to bring light to the upward trend. Any and all advice would be greatly appreciated!

Is the january 2021 LSAT too late to make applications for 2021 school year?

I'm wondering if anyone with admissions insight can tell me if there's a big difference between applying in mid-late October vs mid-late November. I took the exam yesterday and didn't feel great about it (mis-wrote a rule, had to spend more time than normal on one game, ran out of time on LG which is uncharacteristic; I had been PT-ing in the low-170s). I'm signed up for the October exam but now I'm wondering if I should try for November as well. It would push back my admissions timeline and I know earlier is better, but I don't know how consequential it is before American Thanksgiving.

I am taking the LSAT in October and November and am applying in hopefully November or December. Should I start thinking about my application materials like personal statement now, or should i spend all my time studying for the LSAT?

White heterosexual male here. Ergo, don't have any 'typical' diversity factors and I'm curious if I could write a diversity statement about the languages that I have learned/studied.

I actually think I have an interesting story to tell around learning languages - committed myself in High School to learning another language because I thought it would let me see the world through another lenses (the linguistic/psychological research actually says that this is not one of the many benefits of bilingualism lol); self-studied Arabic for 9 months - FAILED, self-studied Spanish for ~1 year - FAILED, self-studied French and it actually worked out! I was able to teach English in France and have around a ~C1 proficiency (can communicate well but not fluently). From there I studied Chinese (studied abroad) and got my HSK 3 which is a true intermediate level and have also circled back to Spanish and am working on that which is slowly improving.

Don't want to write another essay per se but I'm hoping to be able to express how intellectually curious I am since I didn't attend a prestigious undergrad (although have solid GPA). In general, learning languages have also been a big part of my adult life and I feel like it would be important to include.

On the flip side, I don't want this to feel like a stretch especially because I am not claiming actual fluency in anything but English lol.

Thoughts?

Hi! Does the Unlimited Admissions Package include brainstorming + unlimited revisions for the PS, Diversity Statement and Addendum?

Additionally, does it include scholarship/waitlist negotiation help?

Hi all,

Can we complete the writing sample at any time? I am taking the August Flex tomorrow and I know they opened up the writing sample 8 days ago, but I just want to verify that I'll be able to complete it on test day or in the days following. The language on LSAC's site just says candidates can complete "starting 8 days prior to their LSAT administration."

Logistically, do I need to sign up for a Proctor U time slot or is it an LSAC proctored thing?

Thanks!

When you go to add a recommender on LSAC it asks for their contact information including street address. Do you have to get their real address, or do you put the address of where they work?

I was wondering if I should take this into consideration when using the calculator to determine the likelihood of being accepted.