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Do You Know Where You’re Going To? Pre-LSAT Prep Can Help.

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAI received a great text message two days ago: one of my tutoring students informed me that he was accepted to a number of law schools, including his number one choice! I immediately phoned him to offer my congratulations and …

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March Madness: Winning the Title of the Best (Law School)

file1701287069638Last night, the NCAA announced the brackets for March Madness, naming the highest ranked college teams in each division. Perhaps more important for prospective law students are the rankings released last week by US News and World Reports on the

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June or October: When is the Best Time to Take the LSAT?

file8521261280815The June administration of the LSAT is just under 3 months away and now is the right time to think about which test to take if you are considering applying for fall 2014.  Is the June test too early or

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So you want to go to law school – what should you do right now?

You may be in your 2nd or 3rd year of University – or you may be out in the workforce. You may have wanted to be a lawyer ever since you were 5 years old and saw your first episode …

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Life on the Law School Wait List

LSAT Blog“We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don’t protest, we are bored to death, there’s no denying it.”
- Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

There’s no doubt that waiting is one of the toughest things to …

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Is Law School Still Relevant?

There has been much discussion in the past few weeks over the decline in law school applications in legal publications as well as in lay publications, and here in our blog. Applications are down, as are jobs requiring a law

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Law Schools – The Times, They Area A Changing!

clockThis is an interesting time in the history of law school admissions to be considering taking the LSAT and applying to Law School. We talked about the decline in law school applications – projected to be about 20% less than

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LSAT Hits and Myths

There is a commercial running in the NY area for a major insurance company (I am not sure if it’s available in other states but it makes very frequent appearances here in NY) that is pretty funny but with an

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“Fall back” on Your Internal Clock

 

It is well-known to my family and friends that my very favorite day of the year is the end of Daylight Savings Time, when that extra hour, because I’ll be fast asleep with my eyes shut tight.) This year, …

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Harvard Law School – now Skype friendly!

Unlike most business schools, which regularly interview applicants, the vast majority of law schools only offer interviews in special circumstances. Harvard Law School has been an exception to that trend – for the last few years HLS has included short …

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