@kparish643 said:

I’ve done this and was re-accepted. Just explain the financial situation. Maybe say something like “after speaking to X in the admissions office and learning that it might be more affordable this year, I waited and am re-applying. I want to come to your school.” (Word it better than that but you get the idea).

Thanks--this is helpful. Were you offered more money the second time?

Congratulations!

Is it normal to feel like you have a migraine afterwards? 😂

Thank you!!

My average is -13 on LG 🙁

I love the one about weightlifting. So inspirational.

Thank you— that’s really helpful.

I'm applying to a part-time evening program while working full time, and raising a family... and I think it's going to be busy, yet doable. I will have to commute to class 2-3 nights per week but my work schedule is flexible and I can also study at my desk like I do now for the LSAT.

I completed graduate school this way, and while I think law school will be more demanding, if I did it once, I can do it again. :smile:

@lesktat308 said:

Well since this took a somber serious tone, Trump made me do it.

Up until this summer I was your average soccer mom with over a decade of a decent engineering career behind me. Law was just an old pipe dream. Back in high school I took a law class and loved it. But I was a dumb kid then. I feared the responsibility the lawyer has where a mistake could ruin a person’s life.

But then Trump happened. He started separating kids from their parents. That was my breaking straw. I’m an immigrant. When I was a child I spent several years at a facility for refugees awaiting their court date. I still have PTSD from that time. We teach our kids kindness and compassion but refuse to give it to people who happened to be born outside the border. I saw violence and crime that police didn’t care about, I saw a baby die because it was denied medical care and the medical staff that denied it got no consequences. There was only one thing that got me through that hell - my parents. To see what happened this summer made me furious with the system. Normal decent human beings were just shrugging their shoulders and saying “that’s what you get for breaking the law”. When we cross the border our past becomes irrelevant. We become a label that is hated, and is more and more so today. We are forgotten about as soon as we are sent back to the danger we escaped from.

I’m tired of it. I want to give people like me a voice and their basic human dignity back. Human dignity is one of those inalienable rights that should be afforded every single human being. I’m going to use my white, educated, naturalized, English speaking privilege to hopefully change the system. Even changing it for one kid would make it worth it.

You have one hell of a story that will make a fantastic PS. I am also your “average soccer mom” LOL

I’m working in child welfare now, and I feel like the children I’m advocating for need my help in court just as much as they do at home.

Thanks! I also have to write one for an old boss, so this is perfect.

Thank you all!

I've been through about 20% of the curriculum so far.

Thanks. My hesitation to wait another year comes from the fact that I'm 41, so I'm already feeling like I'm too old :(