Yearly Archives: 2010

Our latest podcast, “Getting Off the Waitlist,” takes a look at what the waitlist means, how law schools use the list and what waitlisted students can do to get that spot in the entering class. One thing waitlisted applicants can do is visit campus and use the visit to strategically promote their candidacy.Cornell Law School Dean of Admissions, Richard Geiger explains what this means at Cornell. “At Cornell we’re a little bit different from other places because we actually…

Atlas LSAT posted Logic Games Challenge #22 and they invite our listeners to join in: Poetry The LSA group of students in a poetry class is being assigned readings. Each of three students – Francis, Grace, and Hu – will read at least one of four poems – Walkabout, Xtravagance, Yonder Cloudbreak, and Zoolandia. • No student reads both Yonder Cloudbreak and Zoolandia. • Hu reads more poems than Grace and Francis. • Any student that reads Xtravagance also…

As the admissions season rolls on, many of you are playing the waiting game. Waiting to hear back from law schools, waiting to see if you got in or if you’ve been rejected. But what if your wait ends with a waitlist? Does that just mean MORE waiting?? Listen to our show on Getting off the Waitlist: How to Improve Your Chances of Getting Accepted. You’ll learn what things you should and shouldn’t do while WAITING on the…

Sounds pretty good, right? A lower faculty-to-student ratio and improved faculty scholarship. But all that comes at a price — one paid by law students in the form of higher tuition. According to a recent National Jurist postpreviewing a study about to be released later this month, “the average law school increased its faculty size by 40 percent over the past 10 years.” “This increase in staffing accounts for 48 percent of the tuition increase from 1998 to 2008, the study…

The Wall Street Journal Law Blog reports on “a breath of spring in a job market that’s been wintry for far too long.” Given our recent post documenting the latest dismal numbers for law firm hiring of law students, it’s refreshing to hear from the Association of Corporate Counsel’s (ACC) 10th Annual Chief Legal Officer Survey that things seem to be looking up for hiring of in-house lawyers. According to the ACC survey, the outlook for Chief Legal Officers is showing signs of optimism,…

Law school applicants getting ready to choose a law school will undoubtedly face a competitive legal hiring market, along with the prospect of servicing enormous debt on graduation. While it’s fair to say that not everyone graduating from law school wants to or will be able to work in a big law firm, there’s no escaping that one measure of a law school is the rankings and statistics that tell us how that school does with placing…

Many test-prep companies these days are offering free sample LSAT® classes. Take advantage of the offers, test out the various companies and find a teacher and course that really works for you. Here’s a summary of some of the top companies offering free classes: 1. Atlas LSAT Test Prep: Scroll down to “Trial Classes” and learn about attending the first session of the full LSAT prep course for free. Atlas LSAT also offers free LSAT workshops that teach…

The “Waitlist.” Purgatory. Limbo. Call it what you want. What does it mean? And, what should you do? Some schools advise the best thing to do now is nothing at all, while others say they want to hear from you with periodic updates. How can you tell what the right approach is? Law School Podcasterrounded up some experts to help you plan your strategy. For our upcoming show, “Getting In Off the Waitlist,” we interviewed Richard Geiger,…

One of the biggest tasks confronting a law school applicant is the need to mitigate weaknesses or perceived weaknesses in an application. Nearly everyone applying to law school knows they need to perform this necessary step, but the hard part is ascertaining true weaknesses and then actually addressing them. Here is a 5-step process for mitigating the biggest weakness in your application: 1. Identify the biggest weakness in your candidacy. The first step is identification. If you…

Looks like the organizations that rank law schools are about to be evaluated themselves. Can you hear the chuckles? The American Bar Association (ABA) voted this week at its midyear meeting to take a closer look at how a "variety of organizations" rank law law schools and law firms. The ABA's resolution stopped just short of mentioning the U.S. News & World Report rankings, but that's clearly the focus. You may have heard that the U.S. News…