Law School

[Stef the Pef]

Originally posted by Glitter650
From what everyone has told me, don't just re state what's already on your application, they can read. Make sure your essay answers any questions they may have about your application (IE why one semester's grades were dismal) and give life to the other things on your app.(IE express the passion behind your volunteer work and why you chose it etc)
Make them look past the numbers. There are probably a lot of other applicants with numbers JUST like yours, why should they give you 3.56 with a 160 LSAT and of course lots of extra ciriculars the legal education instead of the 2 other people with 3.56 and 160 LSAT score ? Even if your jobs have just been mainly service and retail oriented, what did you make of it, were you a leader there somehow ? If so tell them about it. They want to see you can take initiative and follow through.

That's reassuring--I just had a semester where a medication interaction combined with anemia forced me to drop out of school. I couldn't function and now they've sent me a letter saying that I'm on academic probation due to a "withdraw fail" from that semester that's still under contest (the prof accused me of faking illness when I didn't--what a piece of work!).

I'm still trying for Baylor Law because of the good things I hear about them having profs who can teach well. I'll be going into my junior undergrad year--any advice on when I should start taking the LSAT and start applying to different law schools?