If you’re thinking about applying to law school, LSAC’s Law Forums are a great way to get basic information about the law school application process and meet admissions officers from law school all across the country.
LSAC hosts these free-to-the-public forums across the United States. Registration for these events is now open!
This year, LSAC will be hosting forums in Atlanta, the Bay Area (California), Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Washington (DC), and Toronto (Ontario, Canada).
Ever wish you could read our LSAT Logic Games Bibleon your Kindle e-reader? Well, now you can!
Available for purchase immediately, you can now get the PowerScore LSAT Logic Games Bible delivered within minutes to your Kindle via Amazon’s Whispernet technology.
Don’t worry: You can still get the Logic Games Bible in print.
The LSAT is designed not only as a test of conceptual abilities–it is also a test of intimidation. How do the test makers ensure that the reasing comprehension passages are challenging? Often by choosing subjects that seem daunting; many passages are based on esoteric topics, filled with sophisticated-sounding scientific or technical terms. It is vital that you avoid intimidation as a response to words or phrases which you have never seen. Since the makers of the LSAT do not expect or require outside knowledge with regard to Reading Comprehension passage topics, unfamiliar terms or phrases will almost always be surrounded by context clues.
The PowerScore Law School Spotlight gives you a snapshot of a different law school each week.
For more information about each profiled institution, be sure to check out the school’s website.
The University of Iowa College of Law, founded in 1865, is the oldest law school in continuous operation west of the Mississippi River. Iowa enjoys a top national reputation, and its faculty is renowned for its outstanding scholarship and teaching.
The college is located in Iowa City, a cosmopolitan college town that is home to a dynamic teaching and research university and over 60,000 people. Students from all 50 states and roughly 100 countries attend the university. Iowa City offers a rich cultural life, Big Ten athletic events, and the world-famous Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
The Boyd Law Building’s central campus location on a bluff overlooking the Iowa River provides a professional enclave well-suited to the college’s intensive style of education as well as easy access to the academic, cultural, social, and recreational resources of a major research university.
Unlike applying to college, which is pretty straight-forward process (at least in retrospect), applying to law school can feel a little labyrinthine. Transcripts, Law School Reports, letters of recommendation, the Credential Assembly service, addenda…after a while, it can all start getting jumbled up.
Right around this time of year, I start getting so many “I’m confused. Help!” emails that I find myself there was a quick and easy guide to the process.
To do my part to help, here is my Guide to the Basics About Applying to Law School. It is not exhaustive by any means, but it’ll give you a good place to start–and may answer quite a few of the questions you have about the process in the meantime.
LSAT By The Numbers:
The LSAT is administered four times a year.
LSAT scores are valid for five years from the date of testing.
You can take the LSAT a maximum of three times every two years.
The PowerScore Law School Spotlight gives you a snapshot of a different law school each week.
For more information about each profiled institution, be sure to check out the school’s website.
Wake Forest University School of Law, established in 1894, is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It is a member of the AALS and is ABA-approved. In 1998, the law school was awarded a chapter of the Order of the Coif, a national honorary society.
Wake Forest offers students a solid and personalized legal education. Class sizes are smaller than in virtually any other law school in the nation, with approximately 40 students in each first-year section and about 20 students in first-year legal writing sections.
Faculty members are nationally renowned teachers and scholars. The director of trial advocacy was awarded the Roscoe Pound Foundation’s Richard S. Jacobson Award for Excellence in Teaching Trial Advocacy, and Wake Forest has also received the prestigious Emil Gumpert Award from the American College of Trial Lawyers for its outstanding trial advocacy program. Faculty chairs are held by six of the nation’s most respected authorities in the areas of administrative law, commercial law, sports and entertainment law, constitutional law, torts and product liability, and health care law and policy.
Wake Forest law school embraces seven principal commitments: (1) to maintain a school of the right size that begins with a first-year class of approximately 160 students composed of four sections of about 40 students each; (2) to develop and retain a faculty strong in teaching, experience, and current scholarly writing; (3) to assure that students are taught substantive law, legal research, and writing through the maximum use of leading-edge technology; (4) to continue the school’s emphasis on dispute resolution and litigation skills through instruction, competition, and clinical practice; (5) to build a bridge between law and management communities through an enhanced curriculum, the sharing of resources, and collaborative instruction; (6) to seek to provide career opportunities for our students and graduates that match their potential; and (7) to teach the transcendence of ethics and to inculcate in graduates the importance of doing good while doing well throughout their professional lives.
It’s that time of the year, guys and gals. It’s deadline season. Time to get all your ducks in a row and get everything where it needs to be. To help you out with this process, here are the ABA-approved law schools with May deadlines. As a reminder: Double-check all these dates with the schools and LSAC. If you see any errors or changes, you can let me know by commenting on the post, or sending me an email – achaconas (at) powerscore (dot) com.
If you’re thinking about taking the June 2012 LSAT in the U.S. Caribbean, or Canada, don’t leave registration until the last second! Here are some important dates to keep in mind.
If you’re thinking about applying to law school, LSAC’s Law Forums are a great way to get basic information about the law school application process and meet admissions officers from law school all across the country.
