Power of LoR? Forum

[shipbound]

I've become fairly close to a person I've connected with through a student organization and he was recently asking me about my law school choices since I just took the Feb. LSAT. He went to a well known and respected law school and does interviews for said law school now. His wife worked for several years with a different well known law school and he knows many people in that community as well. He said he thinks I would be an asset to either law school and offered to help me when it came time to apply to these schools.

If I was in the lower 25% of the stats for these schools, would a letter from him do much to help my chances?

[Good Guy Gaud]

It will help but likely not enough to overcome your numbers. They don't get to report LORs to US News

[Abraham Lincoln Uni.]

A letter of recommendation may be helpful but not determinative in regards to admission. You may discuss your statistics and see what can be done to boost your application. For example, increasing your GPA or LSAT score, obtaining stronger letters of recommendation, or working on developing a stronger essay submission. By improving in these areas, it may help increase your chances of being admitted.

[sjp200]

LoR's are commonly used as a red flag. Most people get recs from people they know will write favorably about them. If you find one that isn't so flattering, clearly there is more digging to do.

Spectacularly written recs will help, but as everyone else mentioned, they wont overcome poor numbers. LoR strength can't be reported in the 509's