Podcast: How Will Law School Transfer Admissions Be Impacted by COVID-19?
In this podcast, Mike Spivey discusses how COVID-19 and new grading systems will affect law school transfer admissions.
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Advice
02 Apr 2020
29 Mar 2020
I Spent Two Weeks Speaking with College Students: This Is What I Learned
Uncertainty is on just about everyone’s mind. So, what I learned first and foremost is to listen. Because as students talked more — they often either worked out their own uncertainties, or at the very least were better able to understand them.
Read full post28 Mar 2020
When will larger numbers of law school admissions decisions come?
This will be a short but I hope important blog to consider. It's been a notoriously slow admission cycle, and it possibly would have stayed at an equally slow pace until COVID-19 changed things in many dramatic ways.
Read full post23 Feb 2020
Podcast: How Mike Spivey Would Apply to Law School
This is a very encompassing podcast that features the A to Z of the law school admissions process.
Read full post11 Feb 2020
Waitlists and Retaking the LSAT
The waitlist is a tough place to be. It’s better than being rejected, but usually it’s tough to tell where you stand.
Read full post27 Jan 2020
12 Jan 2020
Applying to Law School: Top 8 Tips from Former Faculty Admissions Chair Scott Moss
Scott Moss, as a full-time professor at two law schools, served on law school Admissions Committees for 13 years, including serving as Admissions Chair for 10 years after receiving tenure.
Read full post29 Dec 2019
Analyzing and Understanding Conditional Scholarships
One of the most important factors when deciding where to attend law school is an applicant's financial aid package.
Read full post25 Nov 2019
Podcast: The Waiting is Long and Full of Terrors
In this podcast, Spivey Consulting Group Founder and Partner Mike Spivey discusses the hardest part of the law school admissions process—the waiting—and how it can cause some applicants to hurt their own chances of admission.
Read full post12 Nov 2019
Podcast: Mike Spivey on the Darker Side of Self-Doxing in Law School Admissions
In this podcast, Spivey Consulting Group Founder and Partner Mike Spivey discusses what happens when a law school applicant posts something that deeply offends or insults law school admissions officers who may know who they are in real life.
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