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In this podcast, Mike Spivey discusses some of the most commonly held misconceptions about the law school admissions process, and how understanding them can help you get admitted.

You can listen to this podcast below, or on SoundCloud or Apple Podcasts.

• 0:30 – admissions is inherently comparative
• 4:21 – admissions officers want to get to know you
• 7:12 – how do law schools make money?
• 11:03 – being a savvy applicant (regarding advice from law school admissions offices)

In this podcast, Mike Spivey takes questions from Reddit!

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Happy holidays from all of us at Spivey Consulting Group!

• 0:00 – Introduction
• 1:30 – Character & Fitness
• 4:43 – Scholarship vs. debt load in choosing a law school
• 8:08 – What to do if you make a mistake/typo in your law school application
• 12:37 – How much will LSAT medians move this cycle
• 14:09 – uGPA's importance this cycle
• 16:02 – How will splitters do this cycle
• 16:33 – Competitiveness of particular schools/bands
• 18:02 – In-person vs. remote law school next year and effects on deferrals/WL movement this summer
• 18:55 – How high LSAT-Flex scores will be seen in future cycles
• 20:00 – Non-traditional applicants this cycle
• 21:12 – Part-time programs this cycle
• 21:45 – What is Georgetown up to?

In this podcast, Mike Spivey discusses the phenomenon in law school admissions known as "yield protection," and explains steps you can take to prevent being waitlisted as a result of it.

You can listen to this podcast below, or via SoundCloud or Apple Podcasts.

As promised in the podcast, here are some resources for how to choose which law school to attend:

• My Rank by Spivey (personalized law school rankings based on the metrics you prioritize most)
• How to Choose Which Law School to Attend (blog post)
• How to Use the U.S. News Rankings to Choose a Law School (video)

In this newest episode of our podcast, Mike Spivey talks about how to stay calm in the law school admissions process.

You can listen below, or on SoundCloud or Apple Podcasts.

• 0:24 — outline
• 1:42 — good news for this cycle
• 4:43 — biological reasons for stress and how to manage it
• 11:07 — long-term optimism

Chances are, if you're applying to a healthy range of target, safety, and reach schools, you're likely to get a waitlist or two (at least!). Especially if it happens relatively early in the cycle, or if it's your first decision, a waitlist can be difficult to interpret and hard to know how to respond. In this podcast, Mike Spivey talks about what to do when you get your first waitlist.

Our podcast is embedded below, but here are also links to podcasts/videos mentioned in this podcast:

• Podcast — Law School Admissions/LSAT Q&A with Mike Spivey and PowerScore’s Dave Killoran
• Podcast: Self-Care, the Fallacy of Reductionism, and Something to Be Said for an N of 1
• Video — The Law School Waitlist: What It Means & How to Get Admitted

And a bonus link: Blog — Every piece of Spivey Consulting Law School Waitlist Advice

You can listen to this podcast below, or via SoundCloud or Apple Podcasts.

Please note that our reservation list for next cycle (2021-2022) is now open.

Today's podcast is from our consultant Sir Williams, former Director of Admissions at the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he led the successful implementation of UW’s first pre-law diversity pipeline summer program. In this podcast, Sir gives a broad introduction to law school admissions for under-represented minority (URM) applicants — what "counts" as URM for admissions, why it matters, and some special considerations URM applicants might want to flag.

A few links mentioned in the podcast:

• MyRank, where you can create your own personalized rankings based on the metrics you prioritize
• LSAC Table on Diversity in the US & Legal Pipeline
• Paul Caron's TaxProf Blog post on diversity and the LSAT

You can listen below, or on SoundCloud or Apple Podcasts.

Please note that our reservation list for next cycle (2021-2022) is now open.

In this podcast, Mike Spivey talks about the LSAT-Flex, particularly is it relates to timelines and the pace of admissions this cycle. It is important to note that LSAT scores are higher at the top bandwidths right now than one would expect in any cycle. There are several hypotheses out there for why that is.

LSAC maintains that they will organically come down to natural levels. Spivey Consulting (and others we should note) believes that we won't maintain this pace of increase, just like every cycle, but that we are already past the point where they could come down to "natural" levels barring some extremely inorganic occurrence, and that until now law schools have been trying to figure this equation out. To LSAC's credit, they have provided law schools with data that we think should now speed up the pace of admitting for the cycle — although exactly when and at what pace that happens is still impossible to predict.

You can listen to this podcast below or via SoundCloud or Apple Podcasts.

Please note that our reservation list for next cycle (2021-2022) is now open.

In this podcast, Mike Spivey and PowerScore founder Dave Killoran ask each other questions about law school admissions (Mike's wheelhouse) and the LSAT (Dave's specialty).

You can listen to this podcast through the video below, or through SoundCloud or Apple Podcasts. You can also check out PowerScore's options for LSAT prep here.

Please note that our reservation list for next cycle (2021-2022) is now open.

In this podcast, Mike Spivey discusses one of the fundamental difficulties of applying to law school—and how to cope with it. Mike mentions two blog posts in this podcast: the first, about all the different variables that go into law school admissions, can be found here, and the second, about load management days, can be found here.

You can listen to this podcast here or on SoundCloud or Apple Podcasts, or read a transcript below.

Please note that our reservation list for next cycle (2021-2022) is now open.

In this podcast, Mike Spivey discusses the three elements of admissions, particularly focusing on the one that is both the most important and the least understood.

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This podcast is hosted by Dr. Peter Cramer, our LLM & International Admissions Consultant. Dr. Cramer has been working in legal education for over 25 years. He started his law school career at Indiana University Maurer School of Law and later went to Georgetown University Law Center where he served as the Associate Director of the Center for Global Legal English. For nine years prior to joining Spivey Consulting Group, Dr. Cramer worked as the Assistant Dean for Graduate and International Students at Washington University School of Law, where he focused primarily on admissions, course counseling, and instruction.

In this podcast, Dr. Cramer gives an overview of the elements of a successful LLM application, as well as common pitfalls to avoid. You can listen via the YouTube video below, or on SoundCloud or Apple Podcasts.

A 3-minute motivational podcast inspired by the William Feather quote, "Success is largely a matter of holding on after others have let go." ‍

I think there is something extra and meaningful we can take from Feather's words, particularly as it relates to law school applicants. Because even in the holding on, in the inevitable ups and downs of the law school admissions cycle, job search, career challenges in a world that can seem unforgiving and cruel at times, there is always growth and very often triumph at the end of any long and worthy cause.