Congrats!! This cycle is soo slow ugh it’s killing me. After feeling relieved like I was done with all of my interviews and my fate is sealed, I got an interview request last Friday from a t13 which i’m at 75ths for. I applied even earlier than you on the first week of October!
If you only mention one program, then you need to talk about your background/your skillsets that you can bring to the program/that would make you a good fit for that program or would align with your interests/your future goals. Otherwise the essay would just be you marketing the program..to the school itself.
@jstought347 said:
what's touch typing?
I think it means typing without looking at the keyboard. I honestly didnt think this was a thing anyone under the age of 30 even thought about. It was so rare to see anyone handwriting notes in college.
Every close friend I have spoken to, >who is a current student or alumni, >talk to me about law school with >shades of regret and sadness, and >they're all incredibly successful >relative to their peers in T14 schools.
I’ve been working at law firms for 5 years mostly with attorneys who went to low ranked schools and I haven’t met a single person who didn’t love law school and isn’t happy with what they’re doing. Even the unsuccessful ones.
I don’t think that telling people “you might have a shitty time in law school” is helpful at all. One might have a bad time with anything one does.
@yifeiwang926 said:
Hey, sorry to ask a question instead of answering. I'm curious about the concept of the JD-LLM in international law, but don't understand the point. Can't you learn the exact same thing, and can't you spend a semester abroad as a normal JD? What is the benefit of the JD-LLM?
PS: I am also really eying Duke and Cornell. Hope to see you there~
Those are my same questions. I wonder if it makes someone a stronger candidate for jobs overseas or if JDs have the same opportunities. I’m also curious if for some countries maybe an LLM is just necessary to work there as an attorney and in others it isn’t..
@ninaleaoishi762 said:
Here's Cornell's: https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/admissions/degrees/jd/index.cfm#CP_JUMP_32581
Yeah I saw that. My question still stands if anyone has further detail
I got my gtown decision right before Christmas and still haven’t gotten scholarship info. Emailing them wouldn’t hurt but you just have to wait. It seems to usually take a few weeks after you are admitted. Once you get the scholarship info try to negotiate with them or see what resources they can provide for DACA students.
@59424 said:
Hi thank you so much. I’m trying to find one that can come in person not online. Seems to be a lot harder.
Why do you need someone in person? It won’t be any different than a Skype call.
If you search tutors in the search bar there’s a list of 7sage approved (online) tutors.
Get your lsat score then choose where you’ll apply. You may change your mind on what schools you want to go to once you realize how little/how much scholarship money you’ll get from certain schools. You may even decide to postpone a cycle. You’ll be bored and research schools while you’re studying and you’ll figure it out. Most people decide based on scholarship which is based on your lsat.
@chelseastipek987 said:
@aristotlejones432 said:
Location isn't so much a problem for me, just not west - given the amount of money it takes to live on the west coast.
As someone who has lived all over the west coast and is currently on the East coast, so feel it’s my duty to tell you that there is a huge continuum of cost of living on the West coast, and many East coast schools have a much higher COL than many West Coast schools.
It’s not about west vs east, but the local housing markets. The Bay Area and LA are comparable to NY and DC, but many other areas are very affordable.
Yeah I agree, I live in the west coast as well. I’ve never heard anyone say that the west coast is more expensive to live in. Usually people who consider moving to NYC from LA/SF are worried about how expensive it is in NYC. In any state there are cheaper areas to live in which are still safe and clean ie suburbs further away from down town/metro areas. You can’t compare a small town in the east coast to SF and generalize that the west coast is more expensive..
Update after reading that above link I guess the only consequence of not withdrawing your apps from other schools/applying to other schools is “Failure to honor these commitments will result in New York University School of Law revoking its offer of admission.”
So if you don’t want to attend NYU then yeah apply to Yale.
Yale sends that email out to a lot of people. I got it too and my stats are barely median for t12 so there’s no reason for Yale to be sending that to me. You can’t even withdraw from NYU, you signed a contract agreeing to attend NYU this cycle.
Congrats on the acceptance!
More specifically in Penn and down since I didn’t apply higher than Penn. Duke seems to have really good resources but I found this out through speaking to the LLM dean and JD-LLM students. I was looking into Cornell and couldn’t find much about it online.
When I had a similar work schedule I managed to study from 5/6pm-9/10pm for a few months daily and took one week day off. I would drill a few sections and PT and BR on weekends. When I got a diff job which ended up with me getting home at 6-7pm I would study at least 40 min during my lunch break, 2-3 hours after work, and on occasion 1-2 hours before work.
@jjoushlyn203 said:
Thanks @oshun1 and @chelseastipek987 ! I really don't want to delay my timeline to another year. I am just trying my best to keep the anxiety down. Working a full time job and only being able to do one section a day feels like im never going to reach my target score.
Unless you work 80 hours a week, you should be able to get in more than 1 section a day. There’s also your lunch break and before work. Sometimes the best thing for anxiety is to have a deadline to work toward. A 6month-9 month deadline isn’t that bad and once you get to like the 3-4 month mark you’ll start feeling relieved that it’s almost over. If you have actual anxiety (as opposed to regular test stress that everyone experiences) you should seek medical help ie a therapist.
I wouldn’t worry about abiding by the schedule, it wasn’t really helpful for me at all. The schedule includes taking every single PT and I’m not sure if it leaves a realistic amount of time for Blind review, foolproofing the logic games, or for days off. It also includes random sets of LR ie every single LR question from PT 40-60 and I don’t think anyone does that. I think I finished the curriculum within 3-4 months while working full time and I went thru it really slow. Then I PT’d for 2-3 months and took 10 or so tests. I ended up 2 points below my target score on the July lsat but I didn’t want to retake.
TL;dr the schedule doesn’t matter and includes hours of things you won’t need to do. 6 months is feasible although you may need more time just for PTing to get to your target score.
I agree with the above comments but I think you should aim to take the LSAT within the next year instead of already planning on delaying another year. There’s nothing wrong with delaying and you should certainly do so if necessary but you shouldn’t do so just bc you’re nervous to take the exam. You can’t be sure of when you’ll reach your target score but if you’ve been studying for years then you should push yourself a little bit and aim for a certain date this year and if your target score isn’t there within a couple months then keep pushing it back until you get there. I don’t think it’s healthy for people to spend consecutive years regularly studying for the lsat.
You also don’t need to get your apps in by September, that’s a huge amount of pressure and taking away potentially months of additional studying. It’d be better to reach your target score and apply in like November or even December than to apply that early.
Professors are humans dealing with teenagers who send them drunk emails at midnight asking them for paper extensions, you don’t need to over think it. You aren’t being graded on your email.
In an email I wrote to a professor who I socialized with more than Professor X, I wrote something similar but didn’t include the classes I took or my grades and just mentioned a trip I took over the summer, the new job I was working at, some books I was reading, and that I’ve been stressing over law school apps.
I probably could’ve just written hey could you start working on that LOR?? But I wanted to write something lengthy to make it seem like I put some effort in my email.
Subject: letter of recommendation question
Good evening Professor X,
I hope you enjoyed your summer and hope that this new school year has been treating you well. I took your X class in Winter 2016 as well as your Y class in Winter 2017. I greatly enjoyed your classes and received As on all papers. I was the only 100% in the class on the Z midterm which I took immediately after missing two weeks due to a family illness.
I would like to respectfully ask if you would be willing to write me a Letter of Recommendation for law school. If so, I can send you the link to upload the letter, as well as my resume, personal statement, and/or transcripts. I would appreciate the letter to be uploaded as soon as possible, before December. If you are uncomfortable writing a letter for me I will take no offense.
Thank you for your consideration,
My Name
Attached for your reference is the Z final I wrote as well as my unofficial transcript for the two quarters which I took your classes.
I was just looking into this for georgetown and one recently admitted student said they received their scholarship info 3 weeks after applying. It varies.
Not to be discouraging but that 168 average may drop drastically once you get to the newer PTs in the 70s and later. You need to start doing the most recent PTs. It doesn’t matter if you burn through them, do every other PT or every 3rd PT in 70-86 if you’re worried about wasting fresh PTs. Drill the LG in the newer PTs too. You can rip up a few from 60-80 to drill.
Doing 1 PT a week is fine. Since you’re studying full time you probably have time to do 2 but I don’t think it’s necessary.