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LSAT Medians Coming Down

Following up on my earlier post here on falling bar exam passage rates (“Sure You Want to go to Law School”?), I thought I would pass along some information I got today about falling LSAT medians, which the author identifies as one of the causes.   http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2016/01/bar-exam-carnage-likely-will-worsen-in-2016-2017-and-2018.html   I have known about falling LSAT medians […]

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The Prestige of Your College (Part II)

Does the Prestige of Your College Affect Your Chances of Admission to Law School? (Part II)   I tried to show in Part I of this post that if you went to Harvard, Princeton or Yale as an undergraduate, your chances as an applicant to law school are greatly improved by the prestige of that […]

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The Prestige of Your College (Part I)

Does the Prestige of Your College Affect Your Chances of Admission to Law School? (Part I)   Of course it does in the sense that someone who attends a prestigious college had vital signs coming out of high school that were pretty prestigious themselves, and so probably put up some pretty prestigious  numbers in college […]

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Medians for the Class of 2018

  The indispensable top-law-schools.com has just published the median LSAT scores and GPAs for the class of 2018, i.e., the students entering law school this fall.  There are no big surprises, but I like to work with the most recent numbers, and I am sure you do as well, so I thought I would pass […]

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What to expect when you’re expecting…

…to begin law school, that is.  Congratulations to my clients who are about to start law school in the next several weeks.  We had a great season here at SLSAC, and every client from the past season will soon begin at a law school to which they are – as they should be – proud […]

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Still Waiting?

If you’re not one of the lucky few who got admitted directly to a top school, or who got in off a wait list right after deposit deadline season (whom I don’t consider true waitlisted applicants but rather admitted students whose admittance was decided but held in abeyance as a sort of insurance policy against […]

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LAW SCHOOL APPLICANTS: JUST DO IT! OR FORENSICS: THE OTHER EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITY; IT’S WHAT’S FOR COLLEGE.

Look at that.  I managed to steal from not one, not two, but three great ad campaigns for that title.   Anyway, having spent the last three or four months focused exclusively on current applicants to law school, I’m finally turning to clients who approach me earlier in their careers for advice on such things […]

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