I just want to point out that when you speak a professor from a top ten law school they are likely to have a very strong bias of going to a higher ranked school because that is where they are. I would say take what they say with a grain of salt. Although, I definitely do not think it is worth the risk of going to a much lower ranked school without a great scholarship. Still important to remember though that sometimes going to a lower ranked school is actually optimal if location wise it is the best school and that is where you want to practice.

For my resume for law school, I kept out my GPA because I figured that the law schools already have it twice and don't need to see it again.

I always pdf when submitting documents

I don't think its a problem to be indecisive about two kinds. Most people go in with no idea of what kind of law they want to do. Wavering between two kinds of law-if you have a solid reason for doing either is not a problem. Admission knows this and I think that you can write about those programs that interest you.

For GPA, should it be our LSAC GPA? Because my LSAC and school GPA are a drop different.

I think you can also still send your applications in, just LSAC won't send your report anyways, so there's no harm in waiting till its all ready. For some schools though, it may make a difference, so I would call the schools and ask what they recommend and they may give you an insight with how they do it.

I don't see why not, although if there's a place to explain why you weren't able to go that would probably be best

Wait, what schools already sent out acceptances?

I think you definitely still have a chance because LSAT is weighed much more heavily than GPA and your GPA isn't terribly off from their median.

I agree with the above comment, but I would strongly suggest that you look for other people who can also write strong LOR's for you, maybe from school or other people from work. I also think it might depend on who's looking at it and that if you have other things going for you, it probably won't be a negative.

I would push it off until January and then work it out from there based on what you get and where you want to go. Even if you take January, you can wait until next year or you can apply to schools this year. It really depends on where you want to go and what kind of scholarship you are looking for

It very well may not be enough time. After taking the practice test see where you are and if you're lower than where you wanna be by more than a few points, you should probably postpone

I think if the personal statement is very good then more can sometimes be less. Meaning that sometimes its better to keep it shorter anyways, so if you go below the word count I don't think they will hold it against you unless you have ideas that are not fleshed out and you had the room to do it in.

I think something to think about is because Cardozo is so new, many of the people who go there or the alumnae who graduated from there care very much about helping out the students who are there now.

I would definitely say Cardozo is better than Seton Hall unless you want to stay in New Jersey

They will look at the average--whatever LSAC gives them, but they also look at trends--and your grades went up and not down, so they'll factor that in. Of course, LSAT matters heavily so focus on that and don't worry about GPA.

Congrats! That's great!

You should definitely add it

There is also a way to add a letter of recommendation from the same recommender. I know because I did this--I think you need to send a new request, as if its from a new person, even though its the same person submitting it. Just do it with a different description

Congrats!!! Wow!!

What was your LSAT score? and did you have job experience?

I was told by people including admissions officers from law school that you don't need to put your GPA on your resume for law school applications because they already have both.

They said also if you do, you can pick which one to put on, just don't make one up/make sure its updated because if it says a different GPA than both LSAC and your school one then its a problem.

Start studying earlier.

Mine went up; however, that was because I transferred schools after yr 1 and I had a much higher score there.

What you can do is make sure to write a top notch personal statement.

Also, we had admission forums at my school and they said now it is something that they can definitely look at. Before the digital, they said, they couldn't always read any of them so many times it wasn't worth it, but now that everything is digital that doesn't apply.

I don't think that really the LSAT says anything about how smart a person is. Its written in a certain way and I think there are many people who do well later in life or in law school may not do well on the LSAT