CLEO is offering a seminar for Pre Law students entitled “Road to Law School“. It’s a one day event designed to help ready you for the academic rigors of Law School life, including introducing you to Legal Anaylsis, improve your reading and writing skills, analytical and problem-solving skills, and disscuss the particulars the components of the Law School Application and LSAT test preparation.
From their flyer:
This one-day workshop, including lunch, is available to you at no cost, and will be held at Binghamton University’s Lecture Hall (Binghamton, New York).
For more information and to register, please visit http://www.cleoscholars.com. Once you have registered, you can contact our coordinator for this event, Jacqui Hollins, at jhollins@buffalo.edu.
Posted December 20, 2005 in Uncategorized
LawSchoolNumbers.com (http://www.lawschoolnumbers.com) is a wonderful resource for Pre Law Students in the “research” phase of their application process. It’s basically a user-updated site that indexes all national Law Schools and records users’ GPA and LSAT information and their acceptance, rejection, and wait list data. All of this is then thrown into a graph that links applicants with their numbers and their status at that school. It’s anonymous, so applicants submitting information needn’t worry about confidentiality concerns, yet the information provided here will certainly be of use to students. This type of site functions on user-submissions (and accuracy) so I would certainly encourage UB students to participate but ensure you also keep your personal information private.
While there are also official, law school submitted matrices concerning specific LSAT and GPA information for each school (http://officialguide.lsac.org/docs/cgi-bin/home.asp), some law schools choose not to submit this type of specific data (X-Y coordinates of actual applicants and their status based on GPA and LSAT information). Hence, a website like LawSchoolNumbers.com can really fill in some much-needed blanks. (However, the Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools should remain your number one data research tool as that database is entirely accurate with no fear of fudged-numbers or anonymously-submitted data!)
So when browsing this site, first click on the “All Law Schools” link to have a look at specific schools. Then click on “Top Users” to actually track folks who are currently in the admission process. This is usually quite interesting and some students provide some “blog” like information tracking their progress. Other things to look at are the indices for the Law Schools. That is the “magical number” that combines your academic information. Keep in mind that any “stat” site like this should be just used as a research tool, but certainly not “gospel” as far as where you should apply necessarily. I think I’ll have a podcast tutorial on this to walk people through it at some point, but for the time being, happy browsing!
Posted December 12, 2005 in Tutorials
Law School applicants, rejoice: numbers from the Law School Admission Council for Fall 2005 applications show a 4.6 % decline in overall applications from last year. This is an expected yet still delightful report for applicants everywhere as the last couple of years have shown an incredible increase in applicants. To show how dramatic this incrase over the last few years has been, in 2001, total number of applicants was 77,200. Last year, 2004, total number was 100,600. This next year should be less drastic, but as of now of course an actual number is not available. The National Jurist (November Issue) mentions, “Observers have attributed the rise in applications over the last few years to linger economic woes: more people stay in school to change careers when the job market is unstable.” (16)
This year indicates a change altogether, and even top-tier schools are showing a 2% overall decline.
Posted December 1, 2005 in Announcements