I agree with the above. I started with 4 months, wasn't ready and now I'm at 7 months and I'm still not ready. I overestimated how tired of looking at a screen I would be after work... those hours I put in afterwards were not nearly as effective as the hours I put in before.

All that said, here is my advice if want to do this 4 month plan: study in the morning before work. My job that starts at 7:45 am, so I aim to wake up a little bit after 5 to get in a solid 1-2 hours of studying beforehand. My weekends are pretty much entirely dedicated towards studying/chores, maybe a couple hours off one of the nights. Breaks are important!

I burned out more than once doing this, so I can't guarantee that you're safe, but everyone is different.

I was on it quite a while back! We've had plenty of alum go on to law school (one of my chairs is at UVA Law right now), but I'm not sure how they used it in their application. My guess is, if you were a leader on it (like a co-chair or something), you have a relationship with the Dean of Students, who can write a strong rec letter.

W&M is one of the few schools, I think, that has a completely student-run honor council. On its own (like a resume line), it won't mean much to admissions deans; if you can talk about it extensively in a statement, that's your opportunity to make it a strong extracurricular. Otherwise, it just shows that you were involved in college and didn't just take classes.

Feel free to DM me if you want to chat more about it.