Self-study
Interviews can be a kind of harrowing experience for some people so I wanted to give a kind of play-by-play for folks who may be interviewing at Texas Law. It was a fairly straightforward interview.
Kira Talent (the company that many law schools outsource their interviews to) interviews go as follows: There is no interviewer. You can take the interview at any time within two weeks of registering. You can practice on the questions as many times as you'd like (the practice questions are the same for every school), but you only get one shot during the actual interview (which are different for each school). I would recommend repeating the practice questions until you get three questions in a row that you feel like you answered well. They asked three verbal questions, each of which allocated sixty seconds of prep time and ninety seconds of response time. They also asked one written question, which provided fifteen minutes of writing time within a 300 word limit.
I believe that the questions are likely switched out, but also likely recycled. Here are the questions they asked so that you can prepare:
VERBAL (paraphrased)
WRITTEN (paraphrased)
If anyone else has taken this interview and wants to contribute their questions, that would be extremely helpful!
Overall, for any interview, I would recommend coming up with thoughtful answers to the following questions:
If you're looking for more interview tips and stuff, I'd recommend this guide here, which has been super helpful for preparing me all of these interviews: https://www.collegeessayguy.com/blog/preparing-for-a-college-interview-tips-and-strategies
I think experience, generally speaking, is important, regardless of whether it's "work" (ie. paid) or "academic" (ie. unpaid stuff for school) or "extracurricular" (ie. school-related, non-academic).
So outside of professional experience, my question is, "what did you do with your time instead"? Were you especially involved in student organizations? Did you conduct research in a lab or independently? If you were heavily involved in them, if you showed leadership, and/or if you made considerable impact through them, can potentially be even more impressive than a lackluster job experience. The schools just want to know that you weren't doing nothing.