Hi everyone — I started my undergrad at Florida International University in Miami,Florida. unfortunately due to tuition and family circumstances I had to return to northern Virginia. My gpa leaving FIU was a 2.5, then I took courses at a community college and transferred to George Mason University where I graduated with a 3.39. I am very nervous as to what my GPA will end up in LSAC as I just requested my transcripts. Has anyone been in a similar situation and can offer insight? Thank you in advance.

Hi everyone! I am hoping someone can give me some advice on how to approach a personal statement when I don’t have any legal experiences. Since graduating I have worked as an audience development assistant (briefly) and Client Relationship Specialist (2 years in October) at a credit union consulting firm, working directly with clients. I’m not sure if I should even mention my current role or if I should focus on my passion and why I want to go to law school (specifically American in DC). Any insight or tips will be super helpful! Thank you!

Morning everyone–

I am in the process of drafting a diversity statement for my applications, but I am not fully convinced I need to write one. My PS already addresses my religious/racial diversity. My diversity statement would just be highlighting a different aspect of my diversity not mentioned in my PS. I feel as though it would be repetitive to submit both, but I would love to hear y'alls input on this. Thank you in advance!

My LSAT increased 7 points the second time I took the exam and 6 points the third time I took the test -- in terms of an addendum, if I were to write one, would I treat the increase as a 13 point increase, or would I write about them individually?

Thank you!

Hi there,

I have written my personal statement. The topic isn't about why I want to go to law school, but rather a life experience. I have gone on a few law school websites seeing they have wrote to write the personal statement about why you want to go to law school. I am wondering if I have to write another personal statement that addresses this topic for these schools, or if I can keep my personal statement as it is.

I've read that personal statements should be 11 or 12 pt font, double spaced. Does the same apply to diversity statement, GPA addendum, etc? Additionally, do these ever begin with a salutation like "Dear Admissions"?

Hello!

During my freshman year I received a noise complaint. I was written up and received a formal warning that exists on my academic record.

Of course, for schools with C + F questions that specifically ask if you have received any warnings from a college, I plan to disclose this and submit an addendum. My plan was to just err on the side of disclosure and do the same for all schools, but I am wondering what others think.

A number of schools ask specifically "“Have you ever been subject to any disciplinary action" but do not mention warnings explicitly. Because this exists on my academic record, I was going to answer "yes" in these scenarios too, just to be safe, though I am not sure warnings are considered being subject to disciplinary action and if doing so would be unnecessary.

Would love to hear the thoughts of others.

Thanks!

I’ve had a couple of schools I’m applying to ask for my SAT & ACT scores.

I did not have these handy, thus it took a while to get this done.

Make sure you have these available as a just in case!

Hi all,

Would anyone be interested in swapping drafts of their personal statement for peer review?

Let me know!

I just finished undergrad and moved to a new city, so I'm trying to decide if I should solely focus on the LSAT or if it would look better on my app for me to have a job durning this time?? I'm planning on taking the LSAT in Feb and applying next cycle, so obviously I'll be getting a job, but I'm wondering if that's something I should be focused on now or if I'm okay simply focusing on the LSAT for the coming months until I take it. TIA!

For universities that are christian schools but say that they prefer to have diverse bodies, including those with different sexual orientations and that they don't discriminate on orientation, is it okay to send in a personal statement that talks about your experience as part of the LGBTQ community? Or is this something you should error on the side of caution with and create a new personal statement just for those schools?

Hey everyone,

Sort of an off-topic topic re. law school admissions, but if anyone has any useful advice for me who has been through the cycle or just has a lot of knowledge from others re. the admissions process, I would highly appreciate it.

So, I am currently a Junior in undergrad (so about a year from now I will be applying to law schools). I have a strong gpa so far and pretty good extra curricular activities on my resume. Recently, I have been introduced to a possible legal internship which would occupy me for the entire rest of the school year.

My main question is: Is it worth it to take it, or am I better off just sticking to my rigorous LSAT prep and keeping me GPA up? I know the LSAT is the determining factor, but would it largely benefit me to have a legal internship and the contact on my application? I'm really torn on what to do, and don't want to take away my focus from the LSAT (I am in the PT faze), but I also don't want to pass on something that may very well help me get into a good school.

Thank you for anyone who takes the time to read this and gives me advice.

I am a US citizen with family in Toronto and I am looking to apply to a couple schools in Toronto. I am wondering if it's even worth applying to the University of Toronto and/or what my chances would be since there is not much information online that I can find (like 7Sage's predictor). My stats are as follow:

LSAT: 162

GPA (3 best years): about 3.95 (calculated online, OLSAS is still receiving my transcripts)

Overall GPA: 3.89

Hey I noticed the post "what affects your chances of getting into law school" only uses October as the earliest application date. This is the same with the law school predictor. How about if i apply in september? Does that give an even earlier boost?

I got a 172 on the July exam so I figured I would be contacted by a few schools with fee waivers and things. Will they only reach out after my transcript is submitted through CAS?

I'm interested in business leadership programs such as the Doctoroff Program at UChicago and Jacobson at NYU. As a K-JD, would applying for these programs put my overall application at a disadvantage? Is it possible to be accepted to the school without acceptance to the business leadership program?

On the section where it asks you to list all your previous employment and the dates, if you are unsure of the exact month of when you started or ended is that penalized against you? For instance, I worked at Perkins for my first job when I was 15 and I am unsure of when the exact start and end dates were.

#Help — How necessary is it to follow a specific anecdote throughout your entire personal statement? I have been writing mine about a disability that I have, and I start it off with an anecdote of me at the doctor’s office for the intro paragraph, but I largely depart from that for the rest of the essay in order to describe how that disability affected me negatively for years, then how I learned to cope with that disability while still feeling as though it would only ever hold me back, and finally how I discovered that the coping mechanism I learned in response to my disability is actually a skill that is underutilized in law and one that I plan to use in my legal career.

I feel like my essay is pretty good (I’m not finished writing it, but in terms of where I see it going), but it seems as though every personal statement I read follows a singular anecdote throughout the essay. Also, 7Sage recommends that you focus on a scene (specific point in time), rather than a summary (span of time), but I don’t see how I can squeeze my idea into a specific anecdote/point in time. Help please:(

Hi everyone, does anyone mind proof reading my PS and giving me some feedback on how to condense it and how to make it better?

If anyone can, please let me know!

Does anybody want to exchange and proofread each others resumes for grammar, style, spelling, etc. errors? If so comment and I'll message you!

Hey guys! With applications opening today, I can say I am still lost with the process of using LSAC and CAS to apply to the schools I want. Now that applications are open there is a button that says "apply." Should I have all of my letters of recommendation and transcripts on LSAC before hitting apply or is this just where you can edit your application and save it as you go?

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if it's necessary to write an addendum for explaining why I worked at a job for less than 6 months. I was also wondering if it's okey to include such jobs on resume or it's best to leave them out.

I would greatly appreciate your response. Thanks!

So I worked as a substitute paraprofessional (aka a substitute teacher's assistant) at a bunch of elementary schools during my junior year of college. In the NYC public school system, the school year begins in September and ends in June. I did not get my first call on the job till October of 2016, and I continued to get called by a few schools until February 2017 when I decided to decline the calls to focus on my full-time school schedule.

Anyway, should I put on my resume that I worked for four months? Or for the entire school year (since my license was technically active for the whole school year) ?

Thanks a bunch!

Has anyone applied to law school while still completing their undergrad? I plan on applying to law school in Canada for the fall 2020 semester, however I won’t be completed my undergrad until April of 2020; a few months prior to the start year. Is it possible to get a conditional acceptance or should I wait until fully completed ?

I took the June 2018 LSAT and although I wasn't happy with my score, I was happy with my writing sample which is handwritten. I took the June 2019 LSAT and am happy with my score, and am wondering whether it would look bad if I submitted my June 2019 LSAT with my June 2018 writing sample.

Thank you!