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Hi all,

I was wondering if publications help a law school application. I'm currently working as a research assistant with a professor who is a law journal publication "machine". His last assistant was co-credited with 11 publications and is attending Stanford. His assistant before that is attending Yale. I'm curious what weight these publications have on an application as I am likely to have some by the time I graduate.

Any idea?

They will certainly help, but you'll still need good numbers to get into those schools.

I understand that. Maybe I should put in a scenario.

Admission advisor can choose only one applicant:

170 LSAT 4.0 GPA vs 167 LSAT 4.0 GPA with multiple publications, all else held equal (identical backgrounds), does the 167 ever get chosen in this scenario?

I have no clue. I'd guess the 170/4.0 would win it though.

gaud wrote:I have no clue. I'd guess the 170/4.0 would win it though.

Yeah its difficult to imagine a scenario that the 170 wouldn't win it.

So the benefits would be marginal at best?

HeathP123 wrote:So the benefits would be marginal at best?

Yes.