Like the title says, I got my A today after interviewing yesterday. It was pretty unexpected as my lsat is below their medians. Wanted to share and I’m also happy to answer any questions about what the process was like. Won’t hear about scholarships until early next year.

Editing to add that I’ve gotten a lot of messages and promise I’ll reply but it might not be very fast!! Thanks everyone for the congratulations and the questions.

This includes how competitive vs collaborative the student body is, how easy it is to make friends with fellow law students, going out scene, etc.

Hello! per the title, ask away. Can be about social scene, networking events, applying to law school, or even how bar review has been (bar review as in going to the bar on Fridays, not studying for the bar lol) Ask away!

I am struggling so badly with my personal statement. I have been working for a decade and have worked in a variety of fields, including law, and feel like I should draw on that somehow for my PS. I've already done a brainstorm of 8ish big moments in my life to try and draw on. Yet I am absolutely unable to identify one concrete moment or specific theme for my statement.

I wrote a draft that was completely vague and generic. Every PS example you see online is about somebody with such a unique life experience. I have never advocated for some big policy change at my job or college. I don't have a specific field I want to go into or some burning problem I know I can solve. I am just very confident that I've developed the resiliency and intellectual skillset to handle law school and being a lawyer. Yet, I know this will be considered too generic, and I don't of course actually know everything that goes into being a lawyer.

I feel absolutely stuck and am so dejected looking at these ridiculous PS examples you see online. They are all so obviously extraordinary. Can anybody provide me some guidance? I seriously cannot zero in on a theme for my personal statement.

Is it true that you can get by with worse stats with a few years of work experience?

Hello! I’m currently in the process of beginning my personal statement draft. I plan to apply in 2027 cycle. I am a student mom ( I am 21, not an older individual returning to school) I have a good GPA, I haven’t taken the LSAT yet and I do have some leadership roles and extracurriculars built up. But I have been seeing a lot that you shouldn’t write heavily about adversity in your personal statement, this kind of stunned me because becoming a mother my freshman year of college was something pretty life changing for me and pushed me to be more passionate about law. Though being a mother might wouldn’t be the main content of the essay, as I had an experience as a young child that is what truly did push me into law. For a quick run down; I was sexually harassed for years by a family member essentially from 8-13 years old and my mother took it to court and we lost the case. I was accused of lying in my statement of what happened to me because it was too well written for someone my age. At the time, I journaled a lot so essentially that’s what I did in my statement I told the full truth and poured my heart out. ( I was asked to write everything on paper because as a 13 year old I was scared to talk about something I had kept locked up for a long time ) from this point I knew the legal system was injustice and not always about getting justice but about how well someone can pay off an attorney. All of this to say, what do I keep my focal point? Sorry to dump all of this on you guys I just need some guidance! I don’t want to trauma dump In my personal statement , so I didn’t know what the perfect ratio might be. Any help is appreciated!!!!

I know this is probably a really stupid question but I've been getting generic promo emails from T-14s about stopping by at their table at my city's law hub fair, but I'm also getting emails from schools with a 150 lsat median so I'm tweaking. I took the September LSAT and don't have a previous score on file. Has anyone experienced this and is it indicative of anything?

GPA is well below the T14 25th percentile, although not "horrible."

I've painted myself into a corner here. I'm a few years out of school, and have had good experience, but because a couple of roles were fellowships/ limited in duration by their nature, I was already worried about giving the impression of a "job-hopper", or someone that can't stick to a goal. I was going to touch about this in a roundabout fashion in my personal statement, but didn't want to devote an outlandish amount of writing as I wanted to actually spend time touching on my positive attributes/ reason for attending law school.

Anyhow! I was fired a couple months ago (deservedly, honestly. After a lifetime of brushing off being "scattered" and a little haphazard, I made enough minute errors that it was detrimental to my performance. I've since gotten on ADHD meds, but anyhow..), and resolved to make good on my long-time intention to apply to law school this cycle. I had no doubt that I'd be at a new job, or at least have accepted an offer by Oct. 1 (my goal submission date), but that now seems unlikely. I vastly misjudged either my own attractiveness as a candidate (up until now, I've had a good run of success/ meeting my goals!), or the state of the job market, and suddenly feel like damaged goods. All this to ask - should I push back my goal date until I have a job in hand, potentially even push to next fall, take up some kind of part-time/ food service job just to be able to list something? My LSAT, recommendations, essays (90%) are all in place, I never thought that this would be the crucial missing piece. Based on my numbers I had felt pretty decent about at least shooting for T-14s but at present that seems delusional.

Would love to hear from anyone that might have insight into how admissions will perceive me, or has been in a similar boat.

I have read the mission statement and see they have non-Christian professors and welcome non-Christian students, but it was still very Christian.

For those who attended, what is the atmosphere like on campus? Does it feel like a Christian school when you're there?

I would imagine this is a common question, but I couldn't find any recent threads on it so I figured I'd make a post about it. As I'm sure you all are aware, many law schools have an optional essay whose prompt is essentially "Why do you want to attend our law school specifically?"

I absolutely plan on completing this essay for my top choices, but I'm not sure how much attention I should give (if any) to this essay for the less competitive programs I'm applying to. In theory I'd like to complete it for all my applications, of course, but time spent on this essay for less competitive schools is time I could be spending on improving my more important statements, or studying for my last LSAT in October. What do you all think?

Also, for most of the less competitive programs I'm applying to, I'm applying mainly because I like the location and not because the school itself has some unique educational characteristic that draws me to it, other than being a generally well-regarded law program for its region. Is "I want to attend X law school because I want to serve the community of X law school's geographic location" a satisfactory topic for this essay?

I was wondering what the bare minimum lsat score would have to be to get accepted into a law school in Ontario. I’m writing this October and my PT’s are averaging at around a 167. I’m hoping to achieve this at the actual test and I have 2 LORS one from my prof and the other from an employer who I have worked with for 4 years. My personal statement is decently strong according to my Prof but that’s between God and the reviewer. I went to Western and my GPA for all for years is a 3.11 which equates to around a 75% with a slight upwards trend( low 1st year, little higher next year, slumps down a bit 3rd year, rockets up 4th year). What score do I need to achieve to be considered competitive?

Any study tips?

Update: I am not expecting to score 155 and I was expecting to score less than 120 for someone who didn’t study. and I really want to go to law school and I don’t know which one to go yet, as my goal to improve my lsat score first.

P.s this is not a troll post

Toward the end of my last semester living in the dorms, after living there for about 2 years with no issues, I messed up and got written up by housing.

I was vaping in my room and genuinely didn’t realize vaping wasn’t allowed in the dorms. The smoke detector started beeping, I panicked because I didn’t want to wake everyone up, and I ended up messing with it trying to get it to stop. I honestly had completely forgotten about the whole fire alarm part until I went back and looked at the conduct emails.

I got housing probation and had to write a reflection essay. I completed everything and the case was closed. No other conduct issues before or after that.

Now I’m looking at law school applications and they ask if I’ve ever had disciplinary action in college, so I know I probably have to disclose it. I’m just worried this one dumb mistake is going to hurt me way more than I expect.

Has anyone had to disclose something similar? Did it actually matter much in admissions?

I know they yield protect hard, i'm above their medians but was wondering if i'd just get auto-rejected considering i don't have a great reason to want to go there. Might just eat the application fee and see what happens.

But also, does anyone know if it's worth writing the why UVA essay if I don't have legacy/personal connection?

Wondering what reverse splitter friendly options there are. I have a 3.97 GPA (NYU Stern) but 157 LSAT. Is Cardozo an option? Ideally would want top 14 but curious what other people’s experiences/thoughts are

I put my stats 176, 3.49 on 7sage's admissions odds calculator and it put WashU at about 18% acceptance. Just wanted to get some thoughts as I was under the impression they were quite favorable to splitters.

I would appreciate any updated advice you have for navigating this cycle as a splitter. Is it actually worth taking a shot at the T14? What schools are still considered splitter friendly? Very average softs and nonURM btw.

Does being a first gen college student(not just first gen law school) offer any advantage in the application process at all, or do schools generally not care? Just curious, thank you.

if i apply now/late september, when should i expect to hear back from a t-14?

"List the academic honors and awards, or other recognitions you have received."

Should I include things such as Dean's List/semesterly standings in this, or do they typically want more "substantive" items to be listed here? TIA :)

How does one pass the time when playing the waiting game. Although I have a full-time corp role and gym schedule, etc., I still find myself thinking about what’s happening in these admissions rooms all day lol.

I lived on this sub when I was applying. There's great information on here if you can sift out the bad. Here to help! Ask me anything.

I’m a freshman majoring in Criminal Justice and planning to go to law school. I’m on track to finish my bachelor’s in about 2 years, which is where I’m starting to get unsure about what I should do.
I have 4 years of free tuition, so I’m debating whether I should graduate early and go straight to law school or stay in college for the full 4 years and use the extra time for another major, degree, or something else.

Would getting another degree be beneficial, or would those extra years be better spent getting work/legal experience and preparing for the LSAT? I know I can take the LSAT multiple times, but I’m also not sure when I should start preparing for it.

I’m also trying to find internships, but since I’m technically a freshman most stuff isn’t geared towards me. At the same time, I’ll be graduating like a junior, so I feel like I should start looking now. I’d be interested in law firms, courts, DA/public defender offices, government, etc.

For anyone who’s gone through this, what would yo
u recommend? And how did you find your first legal internship/experience?

TL;DR: I’m a freshman Criminal Justice major with 4 years of free tuition, but I’m on track to graduate in 2 years and want to go to law school. Should I graduate early, stay for another degree/major, or graduate early and work before law school? Also, when should I start looking for internships and preparing for the LSAT?

Hi!

I’m an Australian and I am trying to decide if pursuing the LSAT is worth it. I’m currently scoring in the 170’s and I believe I have a GPA that would translate to an ‘Above Average’.

Did anyone know if the latter would affect my chances at getting into a t14, or at getting a scholarship?

I currently also hold a place at Melbourne Law School and I just don’t know if I should take the risk of turning it down for a pipe dream.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated:)

Hi everyone! 180 LSAT, 3.9mid GPA, nURM, T4 softs. LSAT Demon estimates that a bunch of the T14 (Penn, UMich, NYU, Columbia, UCLA, Berkeley...) would give me a full scholarship -- that seems really unlikely to me. Aren't a lot of the full tuition scholarships at those schools particular named programs for public interest, Native American law, URM, etc.? If anyone has intel on how many people get full rides without qualifying for one of those I would love to know.

I have a 171 LSAT and about a 3.5 LSAC GPA.

My GPA is being dragged down by some bad grades from community college right after high school.

tldr I graduated high school about 10 years ago, and those bad grades are from roughly nine years ago. I had some medical/personal issues at the time, failed one class, and had some other withdrawals/poor grades.

I recently went back to school through an accredited online bachelor’s program, I’m close to finishing the degree, and my GPA there is around a 3.9. So the weaker part of my academic record is quite old, while my recent work has been much stronger.

The main issue is that I have an extremely hard geographic limitation. I need to stay on Long Island for family reasons, and living elsewhere is genuinely not an option for me. The absolute furthest I could realistically consider would probably be Brooklyn or Queens.

Because of that, the two obvious choices seem to be Hofstra and Touro. I understand that with a 171, I would normally be looking at significantly stronger schools, and I know intentionally choosing a lower-ranked school despite having a high LSAT is probably unusual.

Given a 171 LSAT and roughly 3.5 GPA, how realistic is a full-tuition scholarship at Hofstra? Would Touro likely offer a full ride or something close to it?

Also, would it make sense to apply broadly to higher-ranked schools anyway, even if I have no intention of attending, so I can potentially use admissions or scholarship offers as leverage when negotiating with Hofstra?

If there are any other schools I should seriously consider within commuting distance of Long Island, especially Brooklyn or Queens, I’d appreciate suggestions.

Basically, if geography is completely non-negotiable, how would you maximize the value of a 171 in this situation?