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Selene Steelman
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Former admissions officer here. According to LSAC's State of Good Admissions Practices, https://www.lsac.org/about/lsac-policies/statement-good-admission-and-financial-aid-practices, a candidate who has deposited at one school is free to deposit at …
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Former admissions officer here. Please first carefully review the scholarship reevaluation policies of each school with which you are working. Schools have unique policies and procedures; you should follow their instructions strictly. I recommend th…
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Former admissions officer here. You should format all your essays and addenda in a consistent manner with similarly formatted headers, margins, spacing, and text. You want to make your application materials as clear and easy to read as possible for …
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Former admissions officer here. You will find a lot of good information about the WL, LOCIs, and timing at https://classic.7sage.com/admissions/lesson/what-to-do-after-you-get-waitlisted/ and https://classic.7sage.com/admissions/lesson/when-is-the-b…
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Former admissions officer here. For ranking and reporting purposes, the GPA used by admissions is the LSAC generated cumulative GPA, which considers all academic work completed towards your undergraduate degree. Any graduate-level work is not includ…
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Former admissions officer here. You might consider mentioning in one sentence that your partner is connected in some way to the city in which your target law school is also located. Suppose an admissions committee is trying to determine the level of…
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Former admissions officer here. Some applications will ask you in the body of the application itself how you would like admissions to handle future test registration. Some, as @shawlowry5 states, will have a separate section addressing the matter. Y…
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Former admissions officer here. Each school has its own process and reasons for offering partial scholarships, housing stipends, or full rides. Financial incentives like these are often used to secure commitments from those candidates in which the s…
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@ceilinginthedark I wouldn't assume anything about a school's admissions policy with evaluation and test results. If you are at all unclear about what admissions might do, I strongly encourage you to reach out for clarification and tell them exactly…
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@perezb8 If your target school has a policy of delaying review of an application until the new score is received, your file will not be reviewed until February. If you submit your materials now, you may get a slight benefit in terms of timing becaus…
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Former admissions officer here. Do you want the school to HOLD your application for review until after your January results are released? Each school has its own policy about how it treats future test registration, whether they will wait to review o…
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Former admissions officer here. You should do your best to present the information so a reader can distinguish the information. You can begin each activity with a number and separate the information with ( ) and , and . 1.Activity, your role (month…
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You may find this information to be helpful: https://classic.7sage.com/admissions/lesson/rec-cheat-sheet/ https://classic.7sage.com/admissions/lesson/how-to-get-the-best-letter-from-your-recommenders/ Here are some things the committee might wan…
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Former admissions officer here. The "anything else you would like us to know" is the place to add a diversity statement that isn't specifically referenced in the application instructions. As long as you explain how your diversity is relevant to your…
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Former admissions officer here. Addenda should offer further information/background/context to clarify what appears in your application. The tone is very important. Generally, an addendum should be concise and factual. Schools and admissions officer…
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Former admissions office here. The question about disciplinary action (academic interruption, probation, academic dismissal), which usually appears in the Character and Fitness section of the application, requires a thorough written response from th…
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Former admissions officer here. I agree with @RaphaelP's assessment. However, it is a holistic review process, and there are always exceptions. Candidates can definitely punch above their numbers. On the other hand, at the very competitive schools w…
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Former admissions officer here. It would be appropriate to write a concise and factual explanation of the fact that you were in a car accident, and this prevented you from performing to your fullest potential that semester. The purpose of the addend…
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Former admissions officer here. A fifteen point increase is very substantial so I would recommend that you include an addendum. The committee won't know if your first score was depressed because of health or technical issues or because you were just…
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Canceled scores? It depends on how many there are and when they took place. One canceled score is understandable and wouldn't necessarily require an explanation (unless the school instructions require an answer). If you have two or more canceled sco…
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Former admissions officer here. You can use a higher LSAT score to request a reevaluation of a scholarship award or to request a scholarship award. If your score is attractive to the school, they may offer a scholarship to incentivize you to deposit…
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Former admissions officer here. The GPA that law schools use for ranking and reporting purposes is the LSAC cumulative GPA. The CAS Report contains a lot of information about your grades but the cumulative GPA is the one that really matters.
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Former admissions officer here. Admissions puts a lot of effort into making themselves accessible and reaching out during recruitment events, and they usually track the value and success of such efforts. Many applications will ask the candidate if t…
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Former admissions officer here. You could ask a professor from your old school. Or you could approach a more recent professor with a conversation and additional information (resume, draft personal statement, paragraph explaining your narrative, and/…
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Former admissions officer here. If your LORs are dated within a year of submission, it should be fine. The reason why "older" LORs might not be as helpful is because people change and the committee wants to evaluate the candidate you are at the time…
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Former admissions officer here. You should check with the school to see if they will first accept the January LSAT. Depending on the school, submitting an application in January is fine while for others, it would be considered quite late in their cy…
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Former admissions officer here. If you look on the school's website, you can always refer to the school by the abbreviation the school's own marketing people choose. So for Boston University, they shorten it to "BU Law." I would recommend spelling i…
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Former admissions officer here. If applying to US schools, I would recommend that you get your strongest possible application submitted as early as possible. Whether a program will accept a January LSAT will depend on the school. Some school website…
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As a former admissions officer, I would recommend that you read the application instructions and follow them strictly. If the online application question doesn't require or request hours/week, I wouldn't offer it up. However, if you feel that you wa…
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Speaking as a former admissions officer, you should find out what the school's policy is regarding future test scores before deciding how to proceed. The policies of the schools on your school list may not be consistent. It is not uncommon for candi…