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by kimi_6454 » Mon Mar 29, 2010 10:51 pm
I wish I had discovered some of these topics and paid more attention to this forum during my cycle. Hope this helps. . .
Best advice I can give any URM is to take Law School predictor and all those other sites with a big, big grain of salt. Apply to at least a few reaches. Give yourself a chance. Right now I am kicking myself for not doing that. So now, although I suppose i'll be fine, I will have an insignificant but still slightly irksome lingering feeling of "what if".
Study long and hard for your LSATs. It can't be stressed enough; it really does matter.
Also, be smarter than I was and think more carefully about where you want to practice (if you are set on a particular state or region) and tailor your schools to that. That being said, don't be afraid to broaden your options. For someone like me, money is a MAJOR issue and I can't really afford to take as big a gamble as some people can. Taking on anything over 100,000 (a very liberal estimate) in debt is simply not an option for me, fortunately/unfortunately.
Black/Caribbean
3.2 - Top 12 liberal Arts College
169 (December LSAT. studied for two months. in retrospect should have studied longer and harder. LSATS are so, so crucial.)
1 year w/e sort of. multiple jobs. some paid, some unpaid. just keeping busy.
average/ below average softs - at least 5 clubs and orgs per year, board member positions, student gov, dorm presidency, event planning, etc etc.
Applied:
American, Brooklyn Law, Cardozo,Cornell, Columbia, Emory, Fordham, GWU, Villanova, WUSTL
I sent in most apps in mid to late January,a few weeks after I had received my LSAT score.
(wustl and columbia I applied to the day before their deadlines and only because I had received a fee waiver) but I started working on my PS in August of last year and secured my recommendations around that time as well.
IN
Brooklyn 43,000 per year
Emory 20,000 per year
Fordham 20,000 per year
GWU 30,000 per year + free first year housing
Villanova (no idea how much $ if any. guess that means none)
WUSTL 43,000 per year
OUT
nowhere...yet
WAITLIST
American . . .
PENDING:
Cornell
Cardozo
Columbia (not expecting anything from this. well outside their range and also applied far too late. apply early!)
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kimi_6454 on Sat Apr 03, 2010 2:48 pm, edited 1 time in total.
), but I was kind of looking for a place to tell people where I got in and ask for advice on how to decide.
