What predicts success in law school? The standard answer is your LSAT and GPA. Each correlates with first-year grades, and together they predict better than either one alone. The numbers themselves are not the cause, though. Earning a high LSAT score takes one skill, and earning a high GPA takes a different skill. Those two… Continue reading What Predicts Success in Law School?
Author: Moshe Indig
LSAC’s 60-Credit Rule: No GPA, No Law School Median Impact?
Here's a rule almost nobody reads: without 60 graded U.S./Canadian credits before your first bachelor's degree, LSAC does not calculate a reportable CAS GPA. Schools still get every transcript and see every grade. But with no cumulative CAS GPA, your GPA won't count toward any school's median. Your GPA shifts from a hard factor to… Continue reading LSAC’s 60-Credit Rule: No GPA, No Law School Median Impact?
How to Build a Cohesive Law School Application: A T6 Case Study
The applicant had a 3.1x GPA, yet earned an admit to a T6 law school. The record looked scattered: a failed start in a technical field, a rebound after changing direction, activities pointing everywhere. Written the default way, one document at a time, the file would read exactly like the numbers: tried, failed, settled on… Continue reading How to Build a Cohesive Law School Application: A T6 Case Study
How Much Is Law School Worth: A Tier-by-Tier Analysis
How much is law school worth? Everyone talks about the T14 like the answer is self-evidently "any price." Almost nobody puts numbers on it. Nobody runs the numbers across the entire field, on current data, with the assumptions stated and a reproducible model in the appendix. This post does all of it. Every school reporting… Continue reading How Much Is Law School Worth: A Tier-by-Tier Analysis
Reapplying to Law School: What to Change (and What to Keep)
Every cycle I get a version of the same message from someone reapplying to law school. They got shut out last year, retook the LSAT, resubmitted the same personal statement with a few sentences swapped, and got shut out again. Numbers come first in this process, and if your LSAT and GPA were weak relative… Continue reading Reapplying to Law School: What to Change (and What to Keep)
How to Write a Strong Law School Letter of Recommendation
Whether you're a professor, a supervisor, or an employer, if someone has asked you to write a law school letter of recommendation, you're already doing them a favor. This guide will help you do them a bigger one: writing a letter that makes an admissions committee stop and pay attention. Most law school recommendation letters… Continue reading How to Write a Strong Law School Letter of Recommendation
How to Secure Strong Law School Letters of Recommendation
Most applicants spend weeks on their personal statement, days on their resume, and almost no strategic thought on their law school letters of recommendation. That's a mistake. A strong LOR can validate everything else in your application. A weak one can quietly undermine it. The problem isn't that people don't care about their letters. It's… Continue reading How to Secure Strong Law School Letters of Recommendation
How to Write a Strong Law School Why X Essay
The law school Why X essay is where you prove you've done your homework. It's not a love letter to the school. It's a focused, strategic argument for why this specific law school is the right place for the work you're already committed to doing. Whether you're applying to Penn, Michigan, or any school on… Continue reading How to Write a Strong Law School Why X Essay
How to Write a Strong Law School Resume
Your law school resume isn't a job resume. It's not trying to get you hired. It's trying to show admissions committees who you are beyond your GPA and LSAT: what you've done, what you've built, what you care about, and how you spend your time. Whether you're applying to Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, Michigan, or building… Continue reading How to Write a Strong Law School Resume
How to Create a Cohesive Law School Application Narrative
Your law school application isn't a collection of separate documents. It's a story told across multiple essays, each one doing a different job. When the pieces fit together, the effect is greater than the sum of its parts. When they don't, the reader is left assembling your story for you, and that's a problem. Whether… Continue reading How to Create a Cohesive Law School Application Narrative