USNWR Law School Rankings & How to Choose a Law School Podcast
Just click on the link and let it roll http://culawschool.org/media/moss/moss-4-1-16.mp3 -Mike
Read full post
Advice
04 Apr 2016
03 Apr 2016
Underwhelmed with your results at elite schools? Read Below
Here is what is (barring C&F and sloppy application factors) happening. For the first time in 6 years, schools at the top have an almost categorical uptick in applications, and many are being overly gleeful and selective. But if you look at the raw numbers versus percentages — there are still going to be more losers than winners for law schools where the highly coveted applicants attend, and many schools will have to scramble later. It will just take longer than before. Stay in touch with said
Read full post16 Mar 2016
1 Hour of Free Waitlist Advice!
Karen Buttenbaum and Mike Spivey answer questions for an hour on how to best position yourself to get admitted off of the waitlist, hosted by 7Sage. https://t.co/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FtyftsXWSQ0%3Fcn%3DbWVudGlvbg%253D%253D&t=1&cn=bWVudGlvbg%3D%3D&sig=0129dbdbe0389d5a9fead0fc489cbc269eefb322&iid=6cf0579837c64c158e6c051d8089408b&uid=733502143&nid=4+1268 [https://t.co/redirect?url=https%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FtyftsXWSQ0%3Fcn%3DbWVudGlvbg%253D%253D&t=1&cn=bWVudGlvbg%3D%3D&sig=0129dbdbe0389d5a9f
Read full post15 Mar 2016
Guest Blog from a Wait List Success Story
Were you waitlisted at one of your top choice law schools? Was it one of your reach schools? If so, congratulations! This is wonderful news. Most borderline candidates view being waitlisted as neutral or even bad news—which is absolutely the wrong way to think about it! If you’re patient and continue to follow up with the school, you could reap enormous rewards just a few months later. I learned this from my experience applying to law schools years ago as a low GPA high LSAT splitter. In this po
Read full post03 Feb 2016
Generation Neurotic
Every generation, it seems, gets a label. It’s what older people like to do — label those younger than themselves as worse at something than they are. And it makes life more simple. For my generation, Generation X, we were dubbed “lackluster.” We lacked passion and focus. In many ways, I believe that was accurate. When I was 20, I wasn’t focused on, or worried about, graduate school or my career. Indeed, the only career thoughts I had was of opening some small business at a ski town. But mostly
Read full post27 Jan 2016
Feb LSAT: What's important now
Below is an email I just sent to a client (with a few changes for confidentiality), which was in response to triple checking with a school to make sure they would honor an exemption they gave her. To her credit, she immediately got what I was saying...despite my comically poor analogy (included below). We are seeing many more people this year worry deeply about things completely out of their control, and right before the looming test. So I thought I would include here, in case it helps you too.
Read full post19 Jan 2016
One hour of free law school admissions advice!
This webinar, with Mike Spivey and Jenn Kopolow, may be particularly helpful for those applying to the 2016/17 cycle wanting to get a head start on admissions strategy. We hope it helps! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXMXyIe4jYM&feature=youtu.be [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXMXyIe4jYM&feature=youtu.be] Interested in more free advice and law admission data? Follow us on Twitter @SpiveyConsult Interested in working with us to submit the very best of law school applications? We are at: in
Read full post01 Jan 2016
12 minute [video] of the single most important aspect to law school admissions
Many thanks to Mike Kim of The LSAT Trainer and LSATTERS for setting this up. Here is the link to the video: http://lsatters.com/essential-law-school-admissions-advice/
Read full post30 Nov 2015
The Curious Reality of Letters of Recommendation
I'm going to share in this blog an admissions truth that you've probably never heard before and that might sound counterintuitive to you: Letters of Recommendation don't particularly help. Sounds odd, right? Why would all law schools ask for them if they don’t? And why wouldn’t they help – after all they are about the only part of the application that isn’t either coming directly from you (e.g. application, essays, interview, etc.) or a direct result of your performance and track record (e.g.
Read full post30 Oct 2015
Applicant Considerations in an "Up" Cycle
This cycle will be more competitive than the last for many law school applicants. Indeed, we thought this might be the case way back in March [http://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/predicting-the-20152016-law-school-admissions-cycle/] and the June (up 10% for first-time test takers) and October (up 7.1 %) data coupled with conversations we have had with numerous law schools (almost all up) would seem to put an exclamation point on it. More applicants ostensibly equates to more competition (a bit on
Read full post