Yearly Archives: 2011

Just how important is a letter of recommendation (LOR) to your law school application? Strong letters are a must; lukewarm or negative letters can be fatal. But don’t just take our word for it.  Get it straight from the experts, including top deans of admissions, admissions consultants and prelaw advisors.  Here’s what they said in our podcasts — read why strong LORs can help your application and how to get them (then click on the links below and listen to the audio shows for more great application tips). TIP…

Anyone who is even thinking about applying to law school will discover it's not cheap. And we're not talking tuition. Application fees, LSAT fees, LSAC Credential Assembly Service (CAS) fees are a strain for most student budgets. The costs for applying to law school add up quickly. First, there is the cost for each administration of the LSAT, which currently rings in at $139. Second, application fees for individual law schools can run anywhere from $70 to…

   We love to reward our listeners/readers!      Congratulations to our two winners from the recent Manhattan LSAT & Law School Podcaster giveaway! Winners receive Manhattan LSAT’s Strategy Guide Triple Pack (a $98 value).  Written by Manhattan LSAT’s expert teachers, these three LSAT books (LSAT Reading Comprehension, LSAT Logic Games, and LSAT Logical Reasoning) provide you with over 600 pages of strategy, explanation, and practice. Congrats to Twitter winner, @Choweller, and to our Facebook winner, Janette!   Stay…

Giveaway Alert!! Win Manhattan LSAT’s Strategy Guide Triple Pack Wednesday, August 17th, 2011 Law School Podcaster and Manhattan LSAT have teamed up to give away Manhattan LSAT’s Strategy Guide Triple Pack (a $98 value). Written by Manhattan LSAT’s expert teachers, these three LSAT books (LSAT Reading Comprehension, LSAT Logic Games, and LSAT Logical Reasoning) provide you with over 600 pages of strategy, explanation, and practice. There are 2 EASY ways to win.   1.   Click here to go to our Facebook page and “like”…

  Law School Podcaster, the premier online law school admissions resource, has joined forces with law school admissions consulting provider, Veritas Prep, to find out who’s applying to law school, why, and which resources are most helpful for law school applicants. In exchange for 2-3 minutes of your time and your insights on the law school admissions process, we will enter you in a drawing to win a free iPad 2! To take the short survey, click on this link. Responses…

If you’re thinking of applying to law school, you may be wondering, how and when do I begin?  Our upcoming podcast, Planning Your Law School Application Timeline: What To Do and When To Do It, is devoted to that topic and our guests break down all the elements of your application to start you off on the right foot. It all begins with this:  law school applications should be turned in no later than Thanksgiving the year before you plan to go to law school, with some experts…

Not to be confused with business school itself, the business of law schoolhas been getting a fair share of attention lately: •  Just last weekend, in an article in The New York Times, Law School Economics: Ka-Ching!, David Segal wrote that “[l]egal diplomas have such allure that law schools have been able to jack up tuition four times faster than the soaring cost of college. And many law schools have added students to their incoming classes — a step that, for them, means…

A student asked what is the best way to approach a professor for a letter of recommendation.  He asked whether he should simply send an e-mail or meet the professor in person. If at all possible, it is best to approach a recommender in person to request that he/she write a letter of recommendation for you.  Since law schools ask for academic recommendations to garner how you might fare in law school, there are certain items you…

If you want to know what BigLaw associates say about the “quality of life inside” the firms they work for, check out the newly-released Vault 2012 “Best Law Firms to Work For”(find the complete rankings here). You’ve heard about the grueling hours, tight deadlines and demanding work, but the atmosphere and conditions inside firms can and does vary; the associates at some firms are more satisfied than others. As the new Vault survey reveals, when it comes to associate satisfaction, one firm stands…

When it comes to LSAT test prep, many students focus their practice on logic games and logical reasoning sections, which look and feel very different from anything they’ve seen before.  In contrast, the LSAT reading comprehension section looks kind of familiar and tends to get short shrift from  test-prep students.  But it’s a mistake to overlook this section, and you might be leaving potential points on the table, say test prep experts, in our new podcast Mastering LSAT Reading Comprehension: Strategies to Improve Your Speed &…