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You should have excellent chances at T-14 + substantial scholarship with your stats and URM status. I would honestly skip applying to GW and BU unless you're really dying to go to those particular schools for some reason. I think an October retake will not hurt at all, is there any reason you're hes...

I agree with Nony - you don't need an addendum unless the school explicitly requires it for certain score jumps. The only score that the schools have to report is the 180, so they don't have much incentive to focus on your other scores.

What are your top two dream schools? I'd also add on a targeted rec there - it may not make a huge difference but it definitely won't hurt. And if your dream schools are HYS then your work is already done! I think your LSAT score and paralegal experience already make you a fantastic candidate for a ...

If you don't want to be a lawyer then don't go to law school, but please don't let your age be the factor. Like we've said many, many times in this thread, you are never too old to go to law school and there are plenty of people who go to law school in their 30s and 40s. I work with an associate at ...

Why don't you try to just focus the statement on cooking, add in a little extra detail tying that to your current work in big law (or why you want to be a lawyer), and then see how that looks? I agree with pancakes that dropping the poetry bit is the way to go.

Congrats, that's awesome!

You'll be totally fine. As long as you're admitted, you're good! You just might need to let your law school know after you accept in case they ask to see updated transcripts over the summer (since yours might need to be submitted late).

I think at this point you might want to look into careers that do not require a JD.

Good luck! And feel free to post on here for help with your PS or your Why X essays too. I probably would steer clear of D&D for your personal statement but others may disagree!

Would you feel comfortable posting your PS in here so that people could look it over and give you some thoughts as to how it might have come off? (If not, no worries.)

I'll at least answer the recommendation question for now. I don't think you need to tell the attorneys that you're a long shot. Just tell them that you're applying to X school(s). If you go to attorneys (a) you work with a lot and (b) who genuinely like you, I think you'll find that they're happy to...

You way underperformed your stats and I would recommend reapplying at the beginning of the next application cycle. I'm also worried that there may have been something in your materials that was a red flag, since even in late December/early January you should have had far better outcomes than you did...

You've already gotten a lot of thoughts and feedback from people - the overwhelming response is that you are not too old for law school and that we have posters on LSL who have attended law school in their 30s and 40s. Do you have any pending questions that haven't been answered?

Agreed, you can either ask people if they'll give you feedback if you PM it to them, or just post it on here for a day or two and then delete. And even if an admissions officer did stumble on your PS draft on this site, they wouldn't remember it by the time application season starts in the fall. You...

To be blunt, "international law" is not something that you can pursue out of either of those schools. Do you want international arbitration? International trade? Cross-border M&A? Do you want to do immigration/refugee work? Are you just hoping to work abroad for a non-profit doing something vaguely ...

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Tue Jun 02, 2020 12:48 pm

did you write out full essays or outline them for the most part?

Usually just outlined, but I made sure to write several full ones for practice. I think outlining in a CRAC format like pancakes mentioned is a good idea.

I know this is flame given your history, but in case you actually want a serious answer: I would ask if a lawyer or law professor in that field can come and lecture your volunteer organization on the area of law that's relevant to you. Don't try to go to law school again. It's not worth it and would...

It would not be worth it for you to do that.

I don't think so - I applied at the beginning of January and got decent $$ from a few schools. November LSAT would be fine unless things have changed (in the six years since I applied haha). So I'd see how your practice test scores are doing right before November, and if you are consistently scoring...

Same with Georgetown, but higher government placement (e.g. clerkship, IRS, DOJ, Dept of Labor) and lower Biglaw placement (probably 10%-20% either at graduation or after clerkship). You'll hear people say on this and other boards that "you will only get Biglaw if you could before the program." Tha...

I think you might still be able to prep for the October exam in four months, but don't rush to take that exam. Study as much as you need to get above a 170, and it's fine if that means you aren't ready to take it in October. November is an option or anytime in 2021. https://www.lsac.org/lsat/lsat-da...

I think that's the right choice, OP. It'll give you more to discuss during EIP and won't look weirdly short to anyone who checks out your LinkedIn page. Good luck this summer!

I didn't finish the full Themis course (I got to ~75 or 80% which I was fine with) but as a supplement I did create one-pagers of the important info for each essay topic, with a particular focus on the essay topics that were predicted to come up on that year's MEE. Pretty sure 50% of my secured tran...

I think you definitely have a shot, even though HYS are probably out. We'll have to see how the second semester pans out for you. Is your school doing letter grades for spring 2020 instead of P/F? And yeah, I unfortunately have no clue how COVID-19 is affecting transfer apps either. Each school publ...

Harvard - 74.1% (+1.4%) Columbia - 84.0% (+2.0%) Virginia - 78.3% (-5.0%) UCLA - 51.4% (+3.0%) WUSTL - 52.3% (+0.1%) Florida - 24.2% (+7.3%) Washington & Lee - 35.5% (+9.8%) Barring a surprise off the top rope from NYU or Northwestern, I believe we're able to crown Columbia as the elite employment ...