Important FAQs About Law
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Important FAQs About Law School Admissions
Posted: May 18, 2008
Are you researching possible law schools to attend? Have
you bought guide books and spent countless hours online
searching for the perfect school?
If so, then you need to carefully consider what schools are
right for you. Your search shouldn’t simply focus on just
finding the schools that you think will accept you. Chances
are, even if you have a mediocre LSAT score and
undergraduate GPA, you will still be able to get into some
excellent highly ranked schools. Your acceptance will be
based on a killer application that sets yours skills, interests
and desires out to fill a specific need of a certain law school.
For example, your passion about public interest law might
carry great weight at a school like CUNY, because they are a
law school built are public interest law. Thus, getting into top
schools becomes more about finding out what types of
students your favorite schools are looking for and then
positioning yourself to fulfill that need.
How do go about identifying these schools:
Search Google News about the school. See what news is
coming out of the school. Perhaps, one professor is
dominating a field your interested in or their mock trial team
is winning on the national level. If you find interesting, news
worthy things going on at the school and then tie into them,
you’re giving yourself a great advantage.
You’ll also be able to do some comparative analysis. For
instance, if one of your top choice schools doesn’t appear to
be making news at all or at least regularly you may want to
think twice about going there. If a professional school like a
law school isn’t making news that is probably a symptom of
a mediocre faculty and a body of alumni who aren’t very
successful with their practice of the law.
Stand alone law schools, meaning those that are not part of a
larger university or college system, also merit special
attention. A thorough Google news search will help you find
out exactly what is happening at that particular school. Is it
scandal ridden? Does it have a new dean every few years?
Are students suing the school? Stand alone law schools
deserve your special attention because of all of these
questions.
Thus, from something as simple as a Google news search
you will have armed yourself with very important and
valuable information. Keep copies of what you find and build
folders for each of the school’s you are pursuing. Be sure to
send away for school’s catalogs early enough to give you
plenty of time to weigh all your options. Put these catalogs
in the same folders. This will make your planning and
ultimate decision making process a lot easier in the long run.
Go back to the clip files often and review them. Which
school do you most want to be associated with? Why? Have
any schools lost any luster? You’ll reap the rewards from
doing such a comprehensive search. Those rewards will
come in the form of the identification of a school that really
interests you and you will be armed with powerful
knowledge that will assist you in writing an application that
will really be of great interest to the school.
In future articles I will look at some of the additional factors
that you need to consider in choosing a law school. For
now, building your clip folders will be a great start to your
successful career as an attorney.