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Thursday, Aug 26 2021

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LOR's for Older Students?

Does anyone have any insight into what types of LOR's would be most beneficial for those of us who have been out of undergrad for a long time (10 years)? A recommendation from a former professor feels very irrelevant at this point. I'm planning on asking for letters from a few lawyers, a former employer, and the CEO of the non-profit I work with. Wondering, for those schools that only accept 1-2 letters, which might be most impactful.

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Monday, Oct 25 2021

Jessica,

I am in a similar boat. I just submitted all my apps, and had to tweak my resume to make it more appropriate for law school. I did subscribe to the "greatest hits" thought process, and cut down specific roles and responsibilities to a one sentence or 2-3 bullet point highlight. I also spent significant space on non-profit and association involvement. My resume ended up being a full 2 pages, cut down from what could have been 3. I feel like that was a comfortable length to establish a reasonable history of my past 14 years of adulthood, and hopefully I'll be finding out soon if it worked! :) Good luck!

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Monday, Sep 20 2021

Mine took about 2 weeks - I'd follow up since it's been a while!

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Friday, Nov 12 2021

I had the same thing. I asked my proctor for help and she was able to fix it. It was very distracting though, and I had to flag about 5 questions in a row to come back to once I was able to focus again.

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Monday, Oct 11 2021

I had a two hour delay - I logged in at 9:50am (test time), got through section 1 (LG) and half of section 2 (LR), then the site went down. There was literally nothing I could do for 2 hours, but wasn't about to leave the test until they made me. I finished around 2:25pm. For future test takers, the best I can say is be patient, don't panic! Your work won't be lost and I didn't lose any time. This was my first time taking it so I'm not sure what to expect of my score!

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Thursday, Oct 07 2021

I also have a history of anxiety/panic attacks and even though I take stuff for it, I try to stay ahead of it so that it doesn't overwhelm me. I'll bet, that you've been working your butt off, and any gains to be made in these last couple days really won't override you taking care of yourself. You're as prepared as you're going to be, and it might be fair to say don't spend much time at all practicing/drilling these next few days. I've been tapering off of it, too, and taking some nice outdoor walks, and even a really hard afternoon workout to blow off some steam! I have been cutting off the studying early, or whenever my brain turns to mush, eating a good dinner, watching mindless Seinfeld (now that it's on Netflix!) and getting a good night's sleep. I feel like that's the best stuff you can do right now! Trust that you've made the strides that you need to, and that it will all work out. :)

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Tuesday, Oct 05 2021

Definitely getting 160+ this Saturday! Good luck everyone!

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