This law school sample resume has a separate section for publications. Since you mentioned your resume is lacking and publications are a good soft, I would make it a separate section. http://hls.harvard.edu/content/uploads/2008/11/golitely-resume.pdf
... places they were on the waitlist. Up until August, the class ... applicant who sits on the waitlist; even if just two people ... get off the waitlist at HLS, that opens up ...
... are taking people off the waitlist into August. Heck even AFTER ... /2 tuition scholarship off the waitlist the FRIDAY before school started ... to, at first, get off waitlist (15) and now to get ... WONT consider June, even for waitlist BUT even schools like USC ...
Let's say you take again and get a 173... Harvard/Yale/Stanford might ding you for the 7 takes, but everyone else will probably still take you, assuming the rest of your application is good.