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Five Qualities Law Schools Want to See

As you write your personal statement, keep in mind some of the qualities that impress law school admissions committees so you can ensure that your essays convey these qualities. Use evidence to illustrate them, and emphasize them in your personal statement by describing specific actions and offering examples. The following are five key traits of …

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How Much Does Your Social Media Presence Factor Into the Application Process?

How much does your social media presence factor into the application process1

Grad school admissions officers might well be checking out your social media accounts and forming opinions about you based on your profile and content. Will what they see help you or hurt you? The most recent survey of this growing trend – conducted in 2021 by Kaplan Test Prep – involved admissions officers from 247 top …

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ABA Drops LSAT Requirement Beginning in 2025 

ABA Drops LSAT Requirement Beginning in 2025

Update: As of spring 2023, the ABA has paused this change to their LSAT requirement. Beginning in the fall of 2025, law school applicants may be able to skip the formidable task of studying for and taking the LSAT. That is when the American Bar Association will no longer obligate applicants to their accredited law …

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Entering Law School Gets More Challenging as Number of Top Applicants Skyrockets

Entering law school gets more challenging as number of top applicants skyrockets

Getting into law school is never easy, but for applicants for the 2021–2022 academic year, it’s really tough. The Law School Admission Council president Kellye Testy announced that by early March 2021, US law schools had received 55,166 applications, a rise of more than 20% from the previous year.  Both quantity and quality are on …

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What Does a UVA Law School Application Reader Look For? [Episode 330]

Podcast interview with Brigitte Suhr

[powerpress] Interview with Brigitte Suhr, international lawyer, former admissions reader and current Accepted law school admissions consultant [Show summary] Accepted consultant Brigitte Suhr brings a wealth of law school admissions knowledge to today’s podcast. As an application reader at UVA School of Law, Brigitte read more than 2,500 applications, so she knows what works and …

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Assessing the Quantitative and Qualitative Aspects of Your Law School Application

Assessing the quantitative and qualitative aspects fo 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 …

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Law School Admissions: What You Need to Know [Episode 294]

Podcast interview with Christine Carr

[powerpress] 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 …

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Connections Count. And You Can Create Them.

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 …

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