How to Maintain Your Tone While Writing Law School Essays
That last sentence requires some elaboration. The law professors and administrators who read your essay will...
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Getting a Good Start While Writing the Law School Essay
You've done this before. Writing the law school essay is no different than writing anything else, except that...
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Here Are Some Things to Keep In Mind While Writing Essays for Law Schools
Write about yourself. Law schools are looking for information about you, as well as for evidence of your...
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Some General Considerations While Filling Out Law School Applications
You need to demonstrate in your application that you are such a person.
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Law School Application's open ended questions: What are they looking for?
All law schools ask detailed questions about criminal convictions, dishonorable discharges from the military,...
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How to Deal with Open-Ended Questions Asked in Law School Application Forms
Some law schools leave room on the form for a brief paragraph in which you can list other qualifications. Or...
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When to Apply to Law Schools
Most law schools have only one freshman class each year. Its studies begin in late August or September. The...
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What to Enclose with the Law School Application Form
Depending on the school, you'll have to enclose supplementary forms and other materials. Here, in no...
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The Law School Application Form
Law school applications vary. Some are one-page checklists that aren't much more detailed than the cards you...
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When You Apply to Law School
You don't have to worry that reports will be sent to law schools before the corrections are made. In fact, Law...
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A Useful Rating System in Law Schools
But how do you tell how each school is rated? You can buy various publications that list the country's ten...
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How Law Schools are usually Rated
Law schools can be ranked according to objective criteria. You'll see rankings based on the number of books in...
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You Must Choose Full- or Part-Time Programs in Law Schools?
If at all possible, you should attend law school on a full-time basis. You'll save time, because part-time...
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If You Know Where You Want to Practice Law
Contrary to what you may have heard, you aren't required to study law in the state in which you will practice....
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Choosing the Right Law School for You
To use this method, you'll have to decide in advance which qualities and programs are important to you. You...
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How to Screen the Best Law Schools for You
Some law schools have annual open house programs, one- or two-day affairs meant to attract large numbers of...
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Screening Publications for Researching Law Schools and Formal Classes
Since there are over 176 schools to be researched, you'll find it handy to have a single source that provides...
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Legal Recruiters and Where to Meet Them
Most law schools have people on their staffs whose job it is to publicize the school's good points, hand out...
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Law Students and Lawyers
Just as with buying a new car, word of mouth is important. You should never pass up an opportunity to talk to...
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What You Can Learn from Catalogs
The screening documents provide thumbnail sketches of many law schools arranged for easy, if superficial,...
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If You Don't Get In Your Desired Law School
Admissions and rejections will trickle in throughout the winter. The old high school guidance counselors'...
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Law School Admissions and Minorities
After World War II, the top law schools abandoned their previous effort to maintain upper-class control of the...
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All That You Wanted to Know about Letters of Recommendation
Recommenders, as I'll call them, are people who know you well and can objectively describe activities you have...
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Internships after Law Schools
State and local governments, political party organizations, and campaign committees often offer part-time or...
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Submitting Your Law School Essays
You should always submit an essay or "personal statement" with your application, even if the law school says...
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Work Experience in Law Camps
Summer prelaw camps have been designed in imitation of the computer, basketball, and music camps that have...
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Developing a Strategy While Filling Out the Law School Applications
If you're applying to a top law school, you'll have to have superior numbers. But the numbers themselves will...
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The Law School Data Assembly Service
As Law Services describes it, their Law School Data Assembly Service "provides a means of centralizing and...
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Getting Information Regarding ABA-Accredited Law Schools
There are over 176 ABA-accredited law schools. You could theoretically maximize your chances of acceptance by...
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Choosing an Undergraduate Law College
There are more than three thousand accredited universities and colleges. They vary in quality and reputation,...
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