The purpose of this blog is to help get into law school by understanding law school requirements.  Whether you want to go to Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, or some random online law school that I’ve never heard of, this blog will give you the help and advice that you need to get into law school.

The Overall Strategy

Your ability to get into law school is, at any given school, based on seven things (law school requirements).

They are:

• Your LSAT score
• Your Undergraduate GPA
• Your Race
• Your Admissions Essays
• Your Letters of Recommendation
• Your Resume (this means everything else)
• Your string pulls

Now, there are some of these factors that you can, in fact, control.  And there are some that you can’t.  Your goal needs to be to concentrate on the factors that you can adjust in a way that changes the outcome.

For most candidates at most schools on most days, you can predict the admissions outcome if you know LSAT score, undergraduate GPA, and race.  In fact, the law school admissions council (LSAC) will offer you odds on getting into a particular school on the basis of UGPA and LSAT.  They leave the race issue alone, however, because the schools are touchy about this topic.

Everything else (essays, letters of recommendation, letters, string pulls) only makes a difference for candidates who are somehow on the bubble.  To the extent that you can change them, you need to concentrate on the Big 2 law school requirements: UGPA and LSAT.

If you are early in the process (e.g., a freshman or a sophomore), you can probably change your UGPA pretty substantially with better study habits or selection of an easier major.  If you are late in the process, (for instance, if you’ve graduated) you may be able to only adjust your LSAT score.  Both of these factors have huge weight.  I am told that LSAT matters more at some schools than it does at others.  UGPA matters more at other schools.  The point is that you can always get a better LSAT.  You may be able to get a better GPA.  And those are the two major things that matter and that you can control.

So, this is where we start.  Law school admission comes down to 7 law school requirement factors.  Three of those factors matter.  You can control at least one of the factors that matters.  Maybe you can control two of them.