Law School Criteria

What factors do law schools consider in selecting their pool of enrollees?

• LSAT score
• Undergraduate grade-point average
• Undergraduate course of study
• Graduate work, if any
• Personal statement
• Letters of recommendation
• College attended
• Individual character and personality
• Improvement in grades and grade distribution
• College curricular and extracurricular activities
• Writing skills
• Ethnic/racial background
• Work experience or other post-undergraduate experiences
• Community activities
• Why you choose to study law
• State of residency
• Difficulties which you have overcome
• Precollege preparation
• Past accomplishments and leadership
• Anything else that stands out on an application

How do you know if you're a good fit for a particular school?

This is an important question. Spend some time researching it. Failure to do so is a common ommission made by many prospective law students.

Use Admission profile grids in school descriptions to assess yourself realistically

How many students with LSAT and GPA scores like yours have been accepted to this school in previous years? Now that would be a valuable piece of information if you could lay your hands on it. Well, guess what, you can. Most schools publish a grid that shows the number of applicants with scores similar to yours that were accepted in the most recent admission year. From this grid, you can find out what the competition is like.

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