A legal career requires all who enter the field to possess strength of character and to be fit to practice the law. Not physical fitness or endurance – though that may help you survive first year of law school! – but fitness under the definition of suitability. This is why law school applications include a…
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LSAT vs. GRE: Which One Should You Take When Applying to Law School?
In the past, applicants only had one testing option when applying to law school: the dreaded LSAT. Now, law school applicants have a choice. Currently, 40 law schools – including Harvard, Columbia, and Penn – are accepting the GRE General Test for consideration. What are the implications for applicants? Options are great. An applicant can…
The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans Application Essay Tips [2019 – 2020]
Paul Soros was often overshadowed by his younger brother, financial wizard George Soros, but he was a millionaire in his own right. In contrast to George Soros’s success in the financial industry, Paul Soros made his mark on the world by innovating in the shipping industry, filing patents, winning several engineering awards, and innovating in…
How to Leverage an HBS Education: The Story of LeverEdge [Episode 313]
How to leverage an HBS education: The story of LeverEdge [Show Summary] Do you want to save money on your student loans? Interested in earning an MBA with entrepreneurship as your goal? Considering Harvard Business School as the place to earn that degree? Pull up a chair, or at least plug in your ear buds….
Acing the LSAT [Episode 312]
Interview with Steve Schwartz, Founder of LSAT Blog and LSAT Unplugged [Show Summary] In this episode, top LSAT tutor Steve Schwartz discusses the upcoming changes to the LSAT and their implications for law school applicants, the GRE vs LSAT question, his top tips for LSAT prep, and his growing treasure trove of LSAT prep resources…
Tips for Your Stanford Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program Application
Do you aim to improve the world? Would you like to earn your graduate degree at Stanford — tuition free? Then you may be an ideal candidate for Stanford University’s Knight-Hennessy Scholars program, a program that will cover 100 Stanford graduate students’ tuition for up to three years plus provide a stipend for room and…
3 Musts for Your Law School Application Resume
The law school application provides committee readers with your narrative, and the resume serves as a great starting point for telling your story. Law school resume do’s and don’ts DO follow the instructions As with all aspects of the law school application, when submitting your resume for review, follow the application instructions explicitly. If the…
You Can Get Accepted Off the Waitlist! Here’s How
The application process is not over for waitlisted applicants. You’ve still got a chance of getting into your dream school. Now’s not the time to slack off, and it’s certainly not the time to give up. Continue fighting for that acceptance! Your waitlist updates (you write those) and letters of support (other people write these)…
Why is It So Hard to Write Your Law School Personal Statement?
Why is the personal statement so hard to start? How do you put your heart and soul, and 20+ years of life, into a two-page double-spaced document? The personal statement is often a source of many starts and stops for the law school applicant. I imagine the writer, in a non-digital world, with a wastebasket…
Assessing the Quantitative and Qualitative Aspects of Your Law School Application
The law school application process can be daunting – choosing which schools to apply to, figuring out what to write about in your personal statement, and taking the dreaded LSAT – where do you begin? First, think of the application in two parts – the quantitative and the qualitative. Quantitative stats and law school admissions…
How Does Your Top Choice Law School Rank in Accepted’s Selectivity Index?
Applying to law school is a long, costly process. Every applicant believes that the schools they are applying to are the correct fit for them, and then are devastated if and when they receive rejection letters in place of the acceptance letters they were expecting. Unfortunately, many applicants make several critical errors during the application…
The College Admission Scandal
Like most people, I am outraged by the college admissions scandal. As the parent of five adult children and as an admissions consultant for approximately 25 years, I view the alleged behavior of the parties accused in Operation Varsity Blues as shameful and repulsive. Although I have not played a role in writing this statement,…
U.S. News Releases 2020 Law School Rankings
U.S. News released its annual rankings of the best U.S. law schools earlier this week. Many students apply to grad school believing that another degree will impact positively on their choice of jobs or their salaries. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)’s employment forecast published in the summer of 2018, they may be…
18 Do’s And Don’ts For Your Application Resume
Your application resume is usually the first opportunity admissions readers have to get to know you, your experience, and your skills. Because of the number of other application components they need to review (both yours and those belonging to the thousands of other applicants), most adcom readers will only give your resume a quick 15-second…
The Interviewer Becomes the Interviewee [Episode 300]
Accepted Founder Linda Abraham Provides an Inside Look at the World of Admissions [Show Summary] For 299 episodes, Linda Abraham, founder of Accepted, has interviewed school deans, admissions directors, students, and more. Today we learn about her! The Interviewer Becomes the Interviewee [Show Notes] Linda Abraham: This is our 300th episode and since those round numbers…
International Application Volume Drops At U.S. Grad Schools
CGS (Council of Graduate Schools) has been conducting surveys since 2004, providing dependable information regarding international students applying to and attending graduate programs in the U.S. According to CGS’s 2018 International Graduate Applications and Enrollment report, the 240 schools participating in the International Graduate Admissions Survey reported receiving 4% fewer international grad school applications in…
Law School Admissions: What You Need to Know [Episode 294]
Interview with Christine Carr, Accepted Law School Admissions Consultant [Show Summary] How can you optimize your application and get into the law school of your dreams? Our guest today, Christine Carr, will give you the scoop. Christine Carr graduated from Harvard University in 1993 and from there pursued a career in higher education. Before joining…
Connections Count. And You Can Create Them.
I worked with a client, who due to medical reasons, only earned a 2.2 GPA in a social science degree program. After graduating, he decided that the right career path for him was computer science so that he could realize his dream of becoming a tech entrepreneur. He had an ideal school in mind and…
Encore: Bain & Company’s Keith Bevans Talks About Careers, Life at Bain [Episode 291]
As this show airs, I’m really busy helping applicants with the end of the year application crunch. And you are probably also really busy, either with your own applications, year-end at work, or with holiday and family events and parties. Now is an excellent time for an encore show. Consequently, I decided to replay my…
Your 5-Item Checklist for Submitting Your Applications
Whether you’re applying to b-school, law school, med school, grad school, or college, this checklist will be the same. Don’t hit that “Submit” button until you’ve checked off the following 5 to-do’s: You’ve made sure that your application presents a holistic, multi-dimensional picture of you. Each section of your application should not just present you…
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