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Categories: Career, Financing a Legal Education, Law Careers, Salary Trends As if you didn’t already know that it’s better to keep student loan debt under control, here’s an article pointing to the realities of pay trends for BigLaw Jobs. I’m a Blogging Fool Today
Categories: Humor Perhaps because it’s the Friday of spring break and my clients just aren’t working me hard enough, but this is my third blog post today. I thought I’d make it a funny one. See this link of things that will help you be better prepared for your 1L year in law school. List of Schools that Average LSAT Multiple Scores
Categories: LSAT, Multiple LSAT scores I don’t know who this person is or how credible the list is, but I just came across this list of schools that average multiple LSAT scores versus schools that take the highest of multiple LSAT scores. Low LSAT, Low GPA, and DUI. What are my chances?
Categories: Advice, Application Timeline, Low GPA, Low LSAT, Multiple LSAT scores I get versions of this question almost every day of the week. I want to thank J. for agreeing to allow me to address this question in a blog format. I think that the response will benefit many readers of my blog, even if it’s not the news people were hoping to hear. “I’m wondering if it’s possible (or what the likelihood is) of getting into law school with a 2.5 GPA, 138 on the LSAT twice, and a DUI on my record. Is there anything I can do at this point to get into a law school? Going back to undergrad and increasing my GPA? Taking the LSAT over? Anything?” – J. The answer for J. is that there is an incredibly small likelihood of his acceptance to an ABA law school right now. Even if we give him the benefit of the doubt about diversity, being president of everything at school, having a few years of significant work experience, and a fairly reputable undergraduate college (a combination of which is highly unlikely), law schools have no incentive to take a risk on him. He brings nothing of value to a school, from a law school’s perspective. Any law school would have to sacrifice its numbers to admit him and probably sacrifice its first time bar passage rate and employment statistics as well. Going back to undergrad doesn’t work. It doesn’t change your LSAC computed GPA. If J. could get himself into a graduate school program of repute and do very well (not just a 3.0, but in the neighborhood of a 3.7 GPA) and get some solid academic letters and significantly increase his LSAT score, then I think he might have a better chance of being admitted to law school. This would show maturity and seriousness of purpose. One DUI is problematic, but if J. can show he’s changed and grown and learned from the experience, this alone probably won’t keep him out of law school. J. needs to put some real and metaphorical distance between himself and the DUI incident for law schools to be willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. I anticipate some questions and comments on this one, so fire away. And happy Friday! New Rule About LSAT Dates
Categories: LSAT New rule about LSAT dates – just saw Anna Ivey blogged about it and described it as well as I could so here is the link to her blog. |
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Ann K. Levine, Esq., former director of law school admissions for two ABA approved law schools, is a law school admission consultant and owner of Law School Expert,
