If You Want to Succeed in Getting Into the Best Possible Law School, Help Them Find You
By T S • January 15, 2015
Consider signing up to be a participant in CRS (Candidate Referr. Service), which is LSAC's tool designed to assist law schools in their recruiting efforts in finding you based on specific characteristics, like your: · Score on the LSAT, · UGPA (your undergrad. grade pt ave.) · Citizenship · Age, · Ethnicity or race, or · Location/Geographic background. CRS is free for anyone that has registered an account on the LSAC.org website. Signing up authorizes the LSAC community to provide your details and credentials to agencies, law schools, or other specific individuals who work for them to match you with their…
Brutal Honesty From a Law School Student Loan Calculator
By T S • December 28, 2014
There are always going to be people who want to go to law school, want to become an attorney, and want to stand up and be recognized. That said, there are many issues that simply need to be addressed, and the cost is forefront. For some prospective law students, going to law school and the costs associated will simply not sink in for you until the point at which you understand it in cold hard facts of the actual graduate salary numbers and in the costs to repay the student loans. So if you plan to get a job as…
How Do 0Ls Want Their Law Study Environment, Casual or Formal?
By T S • December 28, 2014
Kaplan Test preparation group performed a survey recently and found a significant and growing gap between what law school seems prepared to offer their students and what the actual law students seek from their studies. That is not even taking into account that fact that affordable is hardly something you could call much of any of the law schools. Massive student loan debt from law school has become the norm unfortunately. Kaplan’s study held that the following is true. See, there is a major issue where new law school applicants really go off course and you can get a sense…
How Do 0Ls Feel About Interdisciplinary Vs. Specialty Focused Curriculum?
By T S • December 28, 2014
Kaplan Test preparation group performed a survey recently and found a significant and growing gap between what law school seems prepared to offer their students and what the actual law students seek from their studies. That is not even taking into account that fact that affordable is hardly something you could call much of any of the law schools. Massive student loan debt from law school has become the norm unfortunately. Kaplan’s study held that the following is true. See, there is a major issue where new law school applicants really go off course and you can get a sense…
What do 0Ls Think Job Market Will Be Like After Law School?
By T S • December 28, 2014
Kaplan Test preparation group performed a survey recently and found a significant and growing gap between what law school seems prepared to offer their students and what the actual law students seek from their studies. That is not even taking into account that fact that affordable is hardly something you could call much of any of the law schools. Massive student loan debt from law school has become the norm unfortunately. Kaplan’s study held that the following is true: Do 0Ls think that they will be prepared to practice law following law school? That is an interesting question and it…
Do 0Ls Know Much About Going to Law School? Yes and No, but Mostly No.
By T S • December 28, 2014
Kaplan Test preparation group performed a survey recently and found a significant and growing gap between what law school seems prepared to offer their students and what the actual law students seek from their studies. That is not even taking into account that fact that affordable is hardly something you could call much of any of the law schools. Massive student loan debt from law school has become the norm unfortunately. Kaplan’s study held that the following is true: Competition cut-throat? Seventy-seven percent of students planning to pursue law school want law school environment to be collaborative in nature and…
Optimism Ought to Be Guarded for Law School Admissions Uptick
By T S • December 28, 2014
Members of the LSAC, the creators of law school examination LSAT®, new law school applications for law school edged off 8% for this fall, after two years of dropping at rates in the double digits. Call that a loss, or call that a victory, it indicates that since the year 2010, a total drop of 37 percent off of applications formerly is the scenario of the current law school landscape. A legal expert in the education community maintains that 2014-2015’s entering law school class could be just 38,000, which is lower than it has ever been in the past 40…
Optimism Among Legal Education Community According to Kaplan
By T S • December 28, 2014
The recent years challenged the world of legal education in the US. Law schools received diminished applications to the tune of 37% lower levels since peaking in 2010. Law schools subsequently began accepting weaker law students, shrinking sizes of entering class or a combination of these. Marketing and competition for the talent of incoming law students has been on the rise. Sizes of these entering classes at reduced levels also meant that gross tuition income. The result of this is faculty layoffs and underemployment of existing staff and even campuses closing. Yet the world of legal education could soon make a comeback?…
Author Daniel Chantre’s Take on Law School
By T S • December 28, 2014 •Law School, Pre-Law
Recently I came across the work of Author Daniel Chantre who brings his knowledge and experiences in law school to bear on the many important aspects that all future law school students need to start think about today. **Disclaimer: My disclaimer is that I have no disclaimer. I have no financial or other relationship with the author of this law school book whatsoever. Knowing what you are getting into before you decide to go to law school is priceless. The Law School Test was written to give future law school students the edge that comes with knowing many of the fundamental factors and considerations…