How to Get Into Law School Three Tips for the Brand New College Student
I would have never bothered to read an article like this at a time when it would have mattered because, unfortunately, I didn’t think about how to get into law school, as early and often as I should have. Indeed, if you’re already more than half way through undergraduate school, you may want to look for advice somewhere else.
If, however, you are one of those chosen few youngsters who know what you want to do in life years before you have any business knowing such things, then I’ve got a few words of advice that will help you get into the law school of your dreams.
Although much of this will seem obvious, please take it to heart and try to understand why following these tips can make your life much easier in the future.
Tip #1 – Your GPA
The premise of this article relies on the assumption that you haven’t yet had the opportunity to screw up your college career yet. As such, you must make every effort to maximize your grade point average (“GPA”) during your undergraduate years.
Others will lie to you, but the truth is that your GPA, coupled with your LSAT score, are the most important factors in determining your admissibility to whatever law school you choose. Let me put this another way – your GPA is much, much, much more important than where you go to school, what activities you participate in, what classes you take, who your grandpa is, etc.
So if you are going to undergraduate school for the sole or primary reason of going to law school, take classes and pursue majors in which you can excel. Your high GPA will make life much easier when it comes time to apply to law school.
Tip #2 – Start Preparing for the LSAT Now
About 60% of prospective law students will do nothing or next to nothing to prepare for the Law School Admission Test (“LSAT”). Another 39% or more won’t do anything to prepare until six months or less before their test date. If you get started now, with literally years to perfect your understanding of the test and the time-proven strategies for maximizing your score, you have an excellent chance of getting a score that will virtually guarantee your admission to any school.
Anyone who has been through the process will tell you that the secret to success on the LSAT is practice. I’m not going to discuss the test and its components in any detail, but it is sufficient for me to say that the LSAT test does not test your knowledge of anything. Instead, it is designed to test your ability to think in certain ways.
Anyone can learn how to excel at thinking in these ways, but it takes lots of time and lots of practice. You shouldn’t be surprised to learn that the few months before most people take the LSAT is a hectic time. In addition to preparing for the LSAT, you may be preparing your law school applications, finishing your final college courses, and rejoicing in the prospect of your impending graduation.
The result of all this is that even those who think they are preparing extensively aren’t even coming close to practicing as much as you could if you start now. So my advice is that you begin reading all the practice materials you can, completing practice tests and even attending LSAT prep classes now.
Changing the way you think – or training yourself to think in a certain way – is a demanding and (biologically) a lengthy process. If you give yourself years of preparation you will demolish even your smartest competitors who have spent just weeks or months learning how the LSAT works.
Tip #3 – Do Interesting Things
In the event even your best efforts don’t result in a 4.0 GPA and 175 of the LSAT, you will find yourself in need of the law school admission advice found in my book, Covert Tactics for Getting Into the Law School of Your Choice.
As you will learn, students without premier numbers are given an opportunity to plead their case for admission via a personal statement, interview and/or personal visit. When it comes time to make that case, you should have something interesting to say.
Thus, much as you should prepare for the LSAT now, you should begin gathering ideas for you personal statement now. Don’t “volunteer” just for the sake of volunteering, but seek opportunities to do fascinating things that may – or may not – reinforce your desire to go to law school.
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To learn more about the the techniques and strategies you can use to get into the law school of your choice, visit http://www.coverttactics.com.
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