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U.S. News World & Report ranked the Duke University School of Law 11th in its 2023 Best Law Schools list. Duke Law’s impressive alumni include former President Richard Nixon, former US Solicitor General Ken Starr, and prominent attorney Marc Elias. The school is located in Durham, North Carolina, not far from Charlotte and Raleigh. Duke Law’s …
Law schools are still requiring that candidates take a standardized exam as part of the application process (at least for now). In the past, law school applicants had only one testing option – the LSAT – but a growing number of law schools now accept the GRE, too, including Harvard, Columbia, Yale, the University of …
Ideally, you should be applying to law schools that are realistic given your credentials, but if your LSAT score or GPA is lower than you would like – or there’s a significant discrepancy between your stats and the medians at your target school – you might be encouraged to learn that most schools provide the …
Your LSAT score is in, and if you did not do as well as you had anticipated, you might be reevaluating your law school choices or plans. Let’s talk through a few considerations that might help you decide how to approach your law school applications now. An applicant’s LSAT score and GPA are tools – …
[powerpress] Show Summary Are you planning to take the LSAT or the GRE before you apply to law school? Are you dreading it? Well, there’s a new option that includes a course and a test, and is accepted by 25% of all law schools. The JD-Next is an eight-week online course that simulates a real …
Whether you’re applying to law school in the upcoming admissions cycle or waiting until next year, you can take the following steps right now to get a head start on the application process: Table of Contents: Begin your LSAC registrations. The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) manages all aspects of the law school application process. LSAC creates …
Stanford Law School was ranked the second-best law school in the United States for 2023 by U.S. News & World Report. Two Supreme Court Justices attended Stanford Law, as did many legislators and an array of legal scholars and big law partners. Given the school’s location near Palo Alto, it serves as a major pipeline to …
Harvard Law School has quite the national reputation. This is partly because the school has spawned a large number of presidents, Supreme Court justices, and big law partners, and partly due to the popularity of Legally Blonde. But in all seriousness, Harvard Law’s history, abundance of resources, and worldwide recognition make it the dream school of …
[powerpress] Test optionality seems to be coming to law school admissions. Top schools have withdrawn mostly from the US News rankings. What does it all mean? We ask a law school admissions expert for his input. [Show Summary] Welcome to the 509th episode of Admissions Straight Talk. Thanks for joining me. Before we meet our …
Most law school applicants would do just about anything to score above a 170 on the LSAT. Given how important the LSAT is to getting into law school, it would seem that getting a high score would guarantee your acceptance to at least a few of the top-ranked schools. This is generally true, except for …
Let’s be honest: the LSAT can be nerve-racking. Whether you are studying for the exam, taking it, or wondering how you did, it’s not unusual to be stressed—and this level of stress leads many test takers to cancel their scores. The LSAT has offered the option to cancel scores for a while. And now that …
[powerpress] Find out the latest admissions news and what it all means [Show Summary] It was a very newsy November and in this episode, Linda Abraham is covering the most notable updates in the graduate admissions world: law school test waivers, top school withdrawals from US News rankings, accommodations for laid-off workers, and more! In …
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