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In this blog post, we will be discussing one type of optional essay, the “Why X” statement, or an essay in which you describe to the law school why you are interested in attending that school in particular.

As many of you know, we have spent the past several months developing a tool for prospective law school applicants to create their own customized law school rankings.

We have our first data update for the September LSAT administration.

This is a particularly tricky question for applicants—and one where we often see that instincts tend to be a good bit off.

LSAC recently implemented a change of policy regarding their still relatively new "Score Preview" feature, which allows you to cancel your LSAT score within 6 days of receiving it. So if you scored well below the score range that you were hoping or expecting to, should you cancel?

Mike Spivey's thoughts on anxiety and failure for law school applicants, students, and lawyers.

LSAC hasn't released final July numbers yet, but they did give a preliminary update and we are now starting to get some real data for this upcoming cycle.

These scores should be thought of as not leading the rankings but being led by the rankings.

Every year at the end of the summer, law schools invite law firms to their campuses to interview students for jobs.

We're near the end of the cycle, which means we've got just about 100% of our total applicant and application volume for the 2018-2019 cycle.

List of where presidential candidates attended law school.

Just The Beginning is a national pipeline organization that serves students from groups that are underrepresented in the legal profession, with the goal of inspiring young people to consider careers in law and increasing diversity in the legal profession.