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Leah M B
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@LSATcantwin said: NORTHWESTERN RULES You’re coming to an amazing school! One of the coolest things ever is to be able to look up, teary-eyed from your Martin Redish Civ Pro readings, and see the beautiful Lake Michigan spread out i…
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It's definitely a good thing, because as the others said, there will be some amount of noise on test day. I highly highly recommend doing PTs in a bunch of different places so you get varying levels of background noise. It's best not to get too comf…
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I second pretty much everything @hawaiihi said above. If your goal is NYC biglaw, Fordham or BU with generous scholarships would be great decisions. GULC only makes sense to me if you want to go into PI/government, or DC biglaw. And honestly, I don'…
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Putting it on the desk is fine.
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I don't believe it makes any difference. For the most part, law schools don't factor in "prestige" of your undergrad, so I would suppose community college would be the same. I wouldn't worry about anything - they are mostly just concerned with your …
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@D2446829 said: How would law schools know you used any consulting service? Yale directly asks on their application. Or sometimes, because something like your PS is phenomenally written, and then your writing sample elsewhere is sub par and…
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This is great!! Super helpful. I’d also personally like to plug the Admissions course for anyone who may be considering it. It’s so so cost effective and gives great advice! It helped me a lot in my writing as well as how to approach the whole proce…
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Do you have an estimate of what your total out of pocket cost of attendance would be? Are you paying for COL with loans or savings? That could have an effect, and of course COL varies by school.
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I would heavily avoid being not fully truthful with a law school. It’s not a good look - if for some reason they discovered that you had already lapsed on that offer but were pretending it was still in play, it could be seen as a negative in your ch…
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I will say, if by chance the offer that you are contemplating is the Rubenstein at Chicago, it is largely regarded as one of the best possible outcomes. They have something like a 75% rate of federal clerks coming out of that. From what I hear, it's…
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It would help a bit to know which T10 you are thinking about. However, in basically every single case, I would say 100% to take the T10 offer. There is very little that Yale will bring you that is worth $225k more than another extremely good school.…
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There's also of course the calculation of if the help from a consulting service would benefit you more than it would harm you. If you feel like you're rusty on writing and need a lot of help, I'm sure that the benefits of having a professional edito…
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Yeah, agree a lot with @Ohnoeshalpme. If these schools are only so-so on employment, then having the least debt is the best plan. I would also look very carefully at where they place graduates too. If you are dead-set on working in a specific region…
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If it helps any, I was just admitted to a school last week that I applied to on January 2, and rejected from one a couple weeks ago that I applied to on December 17. This cycle is simply moving very very slowly. I can understand the anxiety though. …
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Seconding @cqas190517 here. The CA bar is horribly difficult. Schools in CA, even the lower ranked ones, tend to have much higher CA bar pass rates. You can look on law school transparency and see the CA bar passage rates for schools. This doesn’t a…
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PS - similar to the above, I think the best way to control anxiety and nerves is to be super, super prepared. You have less to be anxious about if you are crushing it and PTing at your goal score. The way to study that most people around here recom…
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So, here’s my blunt advice about saying that your issue is with timing and you just need to speed up: the only way you speed up is by perfecting fundamentals. If it’s taking you too long (and I mean significantly too long, like not doing an entire g…
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Yeah unfortunately I have the same takeaway as @akistotle. I think that is form language and doesn’t necessarily imply you have better odds at being accepted as a transfer. Personally, I think attending a school planning on transferring is not the …
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Agree with the others above. The best plan with the LSAT is to only take it if you are ready. If you do think you're ready, go ahead and take it in June. However - I'll throw this out there. I know there is some anxiety about the July test because …
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Hi there! I'm a non-traditional myself, 35 and applying for this Fall. My take on it is that it is a very slight boost at some schools. But overall, it's not worth a whole lot. I would say it's more like if you had similar stats to someone else and …
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Thanks 7sage
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I don't know how useful talking to your proctor about timing will be. Go for it if you'd like, I guess. And ironically, your print out about LSAC rules wouldn't be allowed in the test room haha. So you wouldn't get much farther than the check in wit…
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I'm 35, likely to start this fall. The reasons for the big career change are myriad. Partially because I want to start on a completely different track and transition to the public sector. Without any previous work experience in that field, education…
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Typically, business casual is appropriate. But you will see everything there - jeans and hoodies to full suits. Things change depending on the school's culture as well. The Southern California schools tend to be more relaxed. I can imagine some of t…
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So generous of you to offer! Thanks so much. Did you summer at your firm? Are you in a major city (LA, Chicago...) or in a smaller secondary market? How did you feel about how OCI went? Did you get offers for what you were hoping? Do you have a se…
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@sc1293 said: Hi all! Again, thank you so much for your kinds words. I just heard back from Berkeley, and it looks like I'll be going to Berkeley with a full ride (BLOS). That seals the deal for me. My boyfriend and I will give it our best sho…
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1) Just by perusing LSN and looking at offers this year vs last year. It appears that folks with an LSAT 1 point above mine are getting the kinds of offers that folks with my LSAT got last year. Plus, many schools were able to raise their median LSA…
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Can confirm, I have first-hand experience with @"selene.steelman"'s point above. Received a full tuition offer from a school last year, decided to re-apply. Received about a 2/3 tuition scholarship this year. Ouuuch. They appear to be making a push …
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I think @"Chika.onyejiukwa"'s comment is the best. I'd double check any of the information given when you signed up - does it say they'll have it back to you in any amount of time? It would help your case if so. Either way, I think I'd go straight t…
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Hahah CONGRATULATIONS! That is a remarkable feat - not just the determination you showed in raising your score by so much, but refusing to let others tell you what you are capable of and bouncing back from depression. You persevered and are reaping …