Resume for top law schools?

JDDS0220

Hello everyone!
I was just curious if resume matters for top law school admission. I'm still studying LSAT, but just wondering if it is important. Without many/outstanding working (or internship) experiences, does it matter to get into good law schools?

(I know.. hard numbers like LSAT score and GPA are obviously more important.. haha)
Thank you!

EagerestBeaver

What you are referring to are sometimes called "softs" where as your grades and LSAT would be your "hard stats." Softs are things like your resume, accolades, letters of recommendation etc. How much do they matter? They matter more if you don't have them. If you have no letters of rec and zero experience, that is bad. Softs are less important than your grades and LSAT. Having a dope GPA and very high score will make your softs pretty much irrelevant.

https://www.reddit.com/r/lawschooladmissions/comments/660o4h/classifying_softs_and_clarifying_what_is_and_is/

Here is a long reddit post that will give way more info, but in short, it depends and the admissions committee's job is to evaluate your softs. Having dope grades and LSAT will mostly overcome softs unless they are truly brutal.

hopefulling

7Sage's admission site and the Ivey Guide to Admissions book both talk about this specifically. You'll want to have a lot of extracurriculars. BUT, most schools require the résumé as part of their package. So you might have to create one if you want to apply to a top school.

It matters in the sense that according to an adcom: it's the first thing they pick up to really get to know who that candidate is (after looking at their GPA/LSAT). Then they might go into the rest of the package.

LOWERCASE EVERYTHING

you asked for "top law school admission"; if you were talking about schools like yale, yes they will matter because hard stats may not be enough to gain acceptance, with so many other applicants with great numbers.
but in many of the lower-ranked schools, hard stats can outweigh your lack of softs, especially if your numbers are above their medians.