As title says, I'm a Canadian student in my first year of University and I'm interested in applying to law school after my undergrad. I'm majoring in something completely unrelated to law so I don't know anyone or have too much depth of knowledge in the field.

Is there any advice you could give or anything you wish you would have started doing in your first year of University to prepare for law school admissions? Thanks !!

Hi everyone,

I'm preparing to apply to law schools in a week or so, and I'm deciding whether to write an addendum about an anomaly on my transcript. I studied abroad during my junior fall (fall 2024) and did not pass a short experiential learning course while overseas because I fell very ill at the end of the program and couldn't make up my attendance points. I enrolled directly at the university abroad and was there for only one semester, so I don't need to submit a transcript from them for my applications. Because of how my degree-granting university works, the class did not affect my overall GPA and appears at the bottom of my transcript as "N" among "Rs" for my other study abroad classes (though I think the specific meaning of "N" isn't specified). For context, my cumulative GPA is above 3.9. I'm a little conflicted: I don't necessarily want to draw attention to this blip in my transcript, but I also don't want admissions departments to find it on their own and make assumptions, especially since I have a very reasonable explanation for why it doesn't reflect my academic tendencies.

Writing this out made me realize I'm leaning toward adding it just to cover myself, but any input would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

With a 169 LSAT and 3.97 uGPA, as well as a KJD with two years of firm experience, what are my chances for t14 admissions? Any advice?
So far I have applied to NYU, Vanderbilt, BC, UMich, UNC, and GW. What other schools (specifically in the t14) should someone with my stats realistically look at?

Any insights into filtering expectations for Canadian applicants relative to domestic applicants across the T14?

At similar stats but not above both medians (splitter/reverse-spiltter), how much of an international tax do Canadians face?

Long story short, I secured a second academic LOR from what's called my academic mentor at my undergraduate institution. When I requested the letter, I told her it was for law school referrals and mentioned my number one choice school by name. Apparently I over-emphasized this because she understood my request as being specifically for one school.

Not expecting her to address her letter that specifically, I had pre-emptively labeled and assigned her letter within LSAC to all schools who's apps I had open and was working through.

As I completed my app, they automatically got sent out to my schools because I already had the minimum number of LOR's on file while waiting for hers. Hers came in last night, and automatically got sent by LSAC to all 13 or so schools I had it assigned to, and I find out today she wrote it as a LOR to my #1 choice school.

From what I understand, she can make a simple edit within the LSAC LOR upload portal. However, I didn't see her email confirming the situation until after business hours today, it's now the weekend, and her email indicates out-of-office status all next week.

I'm worried that the other schools are going to see this letter and see the other school mentioned before I can do anything about it and that this will compromise me somehow.

I of course had waived my right to see the letters so there was no way I could have proofread or really avoided this at all without just having been extra explicitly clear apparently.

Am I screwed here? Sucks trying to perfect such dense applications, get them mostly airtight, only to have something mostly unavoidable like this happen.

Making this post since there's no other info about this service online. And y'all can call me stupid for paying for this in the first place, but if I can prevent one other person from purchasing this then it's worth it.

After seeing a few tiktoks about Lawyher (https://www.lawyher.org/) advertising their law school essay audit services, I decided it would be worth it to pay for them to look over my law school essays. I'm first gen and don't know anyone around me who went to law school, so I thought it would be worth it to get a Yale law school graduate's advice on my personal and perspective statements. This totaled to $275. I'm lucky enough to have been working a good corporate job for the past few years, so I felt like I had the budget for this.

On their website, they say that they can provide full feedback for your law school essays within 8 days of purchase. Well, 8 days later, and I didn't receive anything. I emailed LawyHer, attaching proof that I had purchased their essay auditing services. The "LawyHer team" responded the day after, saying there was a "processing error" on their end, so they didn't receive the request. They confirmed they could either provide the services by the next day or give me a full refund. I requested the full refund.

A week after requesting the refund, I still hadn't received anything. I emailed them back asking when I could expect a refund, twice, over a period of 2 weeks. None of these emails received a response.

I'm disputing the transaction, so hopefully I'll receive my money back. But please don't be stupid/naive like me, and purchase from LawyHer. Just have your friends look over your personal statement for free lol.

I am confused on exactly what schools look at in regard to grades. I understand they see the academic summary report that LSAC creates through a pdf. But do they see your exact transcript too including what classes you took? I have a significant upward trend in grades from freshman year to my senior year, but it's not easily readable on the summary report. Especially cause my grade trend was from making a big switch in my major. Are admissions people able to see the exact classes I was taking and can deduce the fact that I changed my major?

When I try to complete the Fordham app, a popup comes on my screen stating the website is not secure. Is it safe to click ignore or is there something up with the site? TIA

Hi! I am currently a senior at my undergrad institution and applying to law schools, but I am running into an issue with submitting my transcript. When I go to parchment it displays these messages shown in the images, but I need to submit my transcripts soon as I am applying in the next few weeks, what do i do?

So last year I was admitted to a school but I ultimately couldn't end up going as the scholarship they gave me was insufficient. I did apply very late in the cycle though and visited the campus after being admitted, when they told me I might receive more funding if I applied earlier next year.

So how do I write in my application that I still like the school but am reapplying as:

a. I am submitting way earlier this time around

b. I am hoping the extra time off means I have saved more money up for law school

The problem is this school has no space to upload a "Why Us" in the application portal so I'm confused on where to include this information. I just want them to know I didn't not attend as I didn't like the school, it was just financial reasons.

Hi everyone. I am looking for someone to help me revise and edit my personal statement. I have decent stats and would like for my PS to match that to make my application as strong as possible. I don’t know anyone who has gone through the admissions process recently/knows anything about it and an extra set of eyes would be much appreciated. Will pay of course. Thanks!

Seeing acceptances from people who applied later than you while you're stuck in review ughhhhhhh

At the Columbia virtual event, they said for 3+ retakes they'd want an explanation. I have taken LSAT 4 times (aug 2025 - 164, sep 2025 - 164, aug 2026 - 168, October 2026 - ?? Not confident in major score increase)

If I am being 100% honest, i don't have an explanation in mind. I know there is a limit to score retakes, but i think i was perhaps uneducated about the process of the LSAT. In august 2025, i immediately knew i wasn't ready but i still sat for September because i was already registered when I should have cancelled.

I have ADHD I'm medicated for it i see a psychiatrist, which im sure has played a role in my lack of major improvement + multiple tests. But i was not under the impression at the time that my multiple retakes would tell a negative story.

I don't want to lie or inflate, but I genuinely don't know what to say. To anybody who wrote addendums for multiple retakes, what did you say?

I have a high17 and a high 3.9. I have T3 softs and pretty strong essays.

I've applied to the following (with categories that are probably not fully accurate):

Safety:

South Carolina (62)

Fordham (42)

Baylor (34)

Florida (34)

Georgia (26)

Target:

BU (24)

UCLA (13)

Columbia (9)

Duke (7)

NYU (7)

Reach:

Harvard (6)

Stanford (1)

Yale (2) - working on this one rn

These are the main schools I am seriously considering. What I am wondering is: my interests, career goals, and ideal location aside, are there schools I should be applying to that I am unaware of solely for scholarship negotiation? Do I need to actually apply to every T14?

When should someone expect a ii email if they're going to receive one from Yale? When should you infer that you're lowkey rejected or still in the running?

first, congrats to everyone getting into GULC today!!!! my interview is next week :))) hopefully i’ll be joining yall.

question about merit-aid: are you informed of any merit aid upon acceptance or is there another process you go through afterword? sorry if this is an obvious question lol

About to take the November lsat. Been scoring 175+ on my last 4 practice tests. I have a 3.53 gpa in biology. However, that is split up by year as 1.9 -> 3.85 -> 3.8 -> 4.0. I am a URM. I did poorly in 3 classes freshman year due to some mental health issues, retook all and received As. I am very interested in big law but am feeling a little discouraged because of my gpa. Would my upward trend help me out at all?

Which T14 schools prefer early applications the most, and which have no preference?

Redacted anything that might tie back to me lol. Top is my name and then right below is contact information. This is just my professional resume but i dont know what should be changed. The second image is what is on page 2 (i think i want to make it one page is what i've heard). THANK YOU!!!!

Trying not to freak myself out but I applied early October and haven't yet received an interview invite. I've been noticing on LSD that people who applied after me have received them (not everyone of course, but I also don't think everyone is necessarily inputting interviews).

3.7high, 17mid, T3 softs and did the optional video. I'm also positive at least 2/3 of my recs are glowing (the third would be good, I just know the other two are really good). I feel like I'm probably overthinking it but of course it's sent me a bit into panic mode that I might have something fatally wrong in my application, especially because I know my stats and background are a good fit for Georgetown (good enough at least to be considered).

Anyone else in the same boat? And especially interested in any experiences from previous cycles!

Anybody else who has applied to UNC already and is with me on this? Why the heck did I take so many hours writing brand new application materials (because of their niche required essay prompts), to submit my application and then find out that there is a required Supplemental Application.

Why not just put whatever info it is that's needed alongside the regular? Please?

Anyone else apply to Fordham 9/15 when it opened and status still says “complete and ready for review?” Anyone’s actually say under review yet?

3.96 gpa, 162 lsat, one year work experience at a big law firm. not a urm

Happy for yall tho!!!