I'm on waitlist for NYU and I got a Kira invite-to do an interview. Any and all advice welcome and what kind of questions are they likely to ask, that I should be practicing? (other than why law/why NYU)
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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
For GPA, should it be our LSAC GPA? Because my LSAC and school GPA are a drop different.
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.
Any suggestions on books to read to prepare for law school?
Start studying earlier.
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.
Congrats!!! Wow!!
What was your LSAT score? and did you have job experience?
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
I'm waiting to hear back from one law school and recently I just had the attorney general's office decided to join in on a brief that I wrote for a law firm. Is this something that I should update the schools with and let them know? It's a reach school for me. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Mine went up; however, that was because I transferred schools after yr 1 and I had a much higher score there.
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.
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
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.
Congrats! That's great!
Has anyone received a larger than 50k scholarship from Cardozo in the past 2 or so years?
I want to try to negotiate and not sure what to do because I heard that lately its the highest they go
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.
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.