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Blog Posts

May 29, 2013
Transfer Policies and Links to Schools 1-25 (Part 1 in series of 3)

Info about law schools' transfer admissions processes.

May 16, 2013
Want to make a really good first impression to an admissions dean or hiring partner?

This is a simple way to differentiate yourself, yet my experience has been that only about 1% of applicants and 5% of law students do it. But 50% of professionals do. Before I reveal it, a very quick backstory is necessary. Without this understanding, I think it is hard to genuinely “get” what I am about to say. The backstory is simply that professionals are really busy, often stressed, and at times frantic. Moreover, they know all of this. Anything tedious that requires a shred of time increas

April 23, 2013
Mistake #1: You Are Too Nice

Learn why being too nice can hurt your scholarship process and how to avoid this common mistake.

April 16, 2013
Mistake #3: The Fight Club In You

On insecurity in admissions.

April 16, 2013
Mistake #4: The Waiting is the Hardest Part

There is nothing more difficult in the admissions process than being wait-listed. For 175+ years as a company we have seen students in law school admissions who have been admitted, wait-listed and denied, and they nearly universally express that the denial was easier than languishing on a wait-list for a drawn-out period. The irony is that just about every

April 3, 2013
Mistake #5: “Oxymoronic” LSAT Advice

Here you have it – two pieces of advice that are not only going to contradict a great deal of what you read online, but which also seem to contradict each other: 1. If you retake the LSAT your score is not likely to go up substantially or beyond the measurement of error for the first test. 2. You should likely retake the LSAT. In

March 31, 2013
Mistake #6: “Help, my GPA has fallen and it can't get up”

I have been following law school discussion forums for a long time. Much has changed over the years, but the next three mistakes have stayed pretty much constant. For #6, we will focus on undergraduate grade point average (uGPA). Invariably, at some point in the admissions cycle, a phenomenon along the lines of the following happens in numerous panicky threads online (a

March 26, 2013
Mistake #7: Texts, Typos, and Timezones

Three common mistakes that admissions officers have noticed with increasing frequency.

March 23, 2013

Podcasts

May 5, 2025
Waitlist Predictions for the 2024-2025 Law School Admissions Cycle

In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Mike discusses the various factors that are at play for this cycle's waitlist season, his predictions for how it will go, and his advice for waitlisted applicants. For more on waitlist strategy, check out our Waitlist Deep Dive podcast episode!

You can listen and subscribe to Status Check with Spivey on ⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠. You can read a full transcript of this episode below.