It's true! Especially in law school admissions.

My numbers (which will not be revealed for identity protection purposes) are good, however, they are definitely not auto-admit worthy at many of the top law schools. I thus applied REALLY early: between the last week of September and first week of October.

It's December and I've already been admitted to 50% of the law schools I applied to (they are all schools that I'm excited about!).

Moral of this post: APPLY EARLY!!!

For those who haven't sent in their applications yet, send them out soon!

My friend Angie is getting married this month. She and her fiance have been planning this wedding for the past 1-year! I know weddings are a big deal, but wow! One-year!?

My initial reaction is, "How can you wait an entire year? Especially having determined that "the one" is right there besides you?"

Nevertheless, I'll bet that Angie's wedding will be spectacular. The amount of time and energy she spent preparing for this wedding is absolutely prize worthy.

How does this relate to law school admissions? (Take a wild guess).

Happy Turkey Day!

Several law schools have started accepting people. And several fellow soon-to-be law students and I have been spending more and more time pouring over law school forums, such as Law School Discussion.

While these forums can be very informative and entertaining, there are times when I feel a tad bit pathetic for checking the same page in 2 second intervals (click....click, click). Perhaps it's group therapy...online group therapy. I feel comforted reading about others who are also experiencing this "torture." To know that I am not alone in being a freak - definitely feels good.

Applying to law school can be (for most of us it actually is) a very stressful process. Taking the LSAT is no small feat, writing a good personal statement can take months (doesn't have to), and those letters of recommendations come on a turtle's back. Thus these forums can help.

And it would be a perfect world, if not for those peeping toms.

Professor Sherman, a Harvard Law grad and phenomenal teacher, once solemly whispered to me, "You must be willing to kill your babies."

For those who care at all -

the LSAT (Law School Admission Test) is an extremely efficient test. It does what it is suppose to do very well, very quick and very accurately.

What is the LSAT suppose to measure? Well, it's suppose to measure how well you will do during the first year of law school. So is a low LSAT score (120) a definite prophecy of your imminent failure in law school? No.

However, if you did get a low LSAT score (120), there is a good chance you will fail. Although imperfect, the LSAT is as perfect as it can get in measuring an individual's success in law school.

My experience has been that the skills required to do well on the LSAT (reading vast and diverse amounts of information, and critically thinking assessing the validity of these arguments/sets-of-facts; reading through dense and boring literature, and pin-pointing the flaws and main-points; quickly thinking of all the different angles and possibilities to a complex problem/situation) are also the skills required to do well in law school.

The only major flaw on the LSAT is the fact that it measures all of this in one sitting. I do believe that some people are not so good standardized test-takers. For these people the pressure of having to sit through a timed test literally chokes them. This is the only drawback to the LSAT's otherwise perfect (my opinion) testing.

Anyone who moans and groans about the LSAT's logic games and how it's irrelevant are simply in denial...trying to make themselves feel better about their failure.

I'm not an elitest; simply a realist.