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Blog & Podcasts
09 Jul 2024
Podcast: Law School Personal Statement Deep Dive—Advice from Former Admissions Officers
This episode dives deep into the law school personal statement, discussing the brainstorming and topic selection process, how to structure a personal statement, writing tips, broad-level traits of A+ personal statements, common mistakes, and more.
Read full post13 Jun 2024
New Law School Diversity Statements ("Life Experience/Perspective Essays"): FAQ
We have received many questions about law schools' new life experience/perspective essays (formerly categorized as diversity statements). Here are our answers to the most common ones.
Read full post12 Jun 2024
Podcast: Dear 1L with Amanda Haverstick
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, SCG Pre-L Consultant and Fordham Law professor Jordana Confino has a conversation with legal writing coach and Dear 1L author Amanda Haverstick about legal writing and tackling your 1L year.
Read full post03 Jun 2024
Generative AI and the Law School Personal Statement
Here are some thoughts and guidelines on how to navigate the use of generative AI tools in your law school application process.
Read full post30 May 2024
Pro Bono Law School Admissions Consulting Opportunity 2024-2025
Please note: we will stop accepting submissions for this program on Thursday, June 20, 2024, at 11:59 PM EST.
Read full post29 May 2024
Podcast: Tier-Ranking Admissions Strategies with UChicago Law School Admissions Dean Ann Perry
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Ann Perry, the University of Chicago Law School's Associate Dean for Admissions and Financial Aid, joins Mike Spivey and Anna Hicks-Jaco to tier-rank law school admissions strategies sourced from the folks over on the r/LawSchoolAdmissions subreddit.
Read full post17 May 2024
Examples of Letters of Recommendation
Here are three examples of law school letters of recommendation, two academic and one professional, two for regular 1L JD admissions and one for transfer admission.
Read full post29 Apr 2024
Podcast: Work Experience, Admissions Strategy, & Legal Employment—What You Need to Know
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, we discuss growing importance of work experience in admissions, why the impact of being a "KJD" has increased over time, and—importantly—how work experience (or a lack thereof) plays out during law school and in the search for legal employment.
Read full post24 Apr 2024
Podcast: What Are Your Chances Off the Waitlist?
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Mike discusses the various factors that play into any given applicant's chances of admission coming off the waitlist. He also gives a quick preview of our (very early) predictions for next cycle.
Read full post15 Apr 2024
Podcast: Transferring Law Schools—Strategy & Process with Two Successful Applicants
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Anna Hicks-Jaco has a conversation with Spivey consultant Paula Gluzman and two 2Ls who transferred to Columbia and Harvard (respectively) about the transfer admissions process and strategy.
Read full post09 Apr 2024
Podcast: The New 2024 Law School Rankings Explained
In this brief episode of Status Check with Spivey, Mike discusses the changes U.S. News made to their methodology this year.
Read full post09 Apr 2024
U.S. News Law School Rankings: 2024 vs. 2023 (+/-)
With the embargo lifted at 12:01 ET today, here are the full U.S. News law school rankings.
Read full post03 Apr 2024
New U.S. News Top 25 Law Schools 2024-2025 (with +/-)
Here are the new 2024-2025 U.S. News top 25 law schools.
Read full post03 Apr 2024
Podcast: The New LSAT & The Elimination of Logic Games, with PowerScore's Dave Killoran
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Anna Hicks-Jaco has a conversation with PowerScore Founder & CEO Dave Killoran about the removal of the Logic Games section of the LSAT, the new writing section, and what all this might mean for the future of the law school admissions.
Read full post21 Mar 2024
Law School "Gap Years," Work Experience, & Admissions Strategy
For several years now, the focus of law school admissions offices has been trending more and more toward employability. What does this mean for law school admissions strategy?
Read full post20 Mar 2024
Podcast: First-Gen Students - What We Wish We'd Known as Applicants, Law Students, & Young Lawyers
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, five Spivey consultants discuss their experiences as first-generation college students, law students, and lawyers, with a particular focus on passing along advice and knowledge that they wish they had known.
Read full post04 Mar 2024
Podcast: Why Rankings Matter to People (& Why They Should Not)
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Mike discusses some of the psychological and societal reasons that rankings seem to matter so much to people—then explains the reasons that they shouldn't matter as much as they do.
Read full post26 Feb 2024
Podcast: International Students—Differences in Law School Admissions + Our Best Advice
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, we discuss differences in the admissions process for international applicants, how law school admissions has changed for international students over time, and our best advice for strategically navigating the current realities of the application process.
Read full post23 Feb 2024
2023-2024 Law School Admissions Cycle Update + Predictions for Waitlist Season
It’s late February, which means that the earliest application deadlines have passed, we’re in the thick of decision-rendering season, and waitlists are starting to come fast and heavy. As such, it’s a good time for a general data update and some predictions on what’s yet to come this cycle.
Read full post14 Feb 2024
Will FAFSA Delays Affect Incoming Law Students?
You may have heard that the Department of Education announced delays in processing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). How will this affect incoming law students?
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