Comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date, this official guide to all 179 American Bar Association-approved law schools offers an essential reference for every prospective law student.

I wish I knew then what I know now! Don't get to the end of your law school career muttering these words to yourself! Take the first step toward building a productive, successful, and perhaps even pleasant law school experience...read this book! Written for students about to embark on this three year odyssey, by students who have successfully survived law school. Law School Confidential demystifies the life-altering thrill ride that defines an American legal education by providing a comprehensive, blow-by-blow, chronological account of what to expect. Law School Confidential arms students with a thorough overview of the contemporary law school experience. This isn't the advice of graying professors or battle-scarred practitioners decades removed from the law school. Fresh out of University of Pennsylvania Law School, Robert Miller has assembled a panel of recent law school graduates all of whom are perfectly positioned to shed light on what law school is like today. Law School Confidential invites you to walk in their steps to success and to learn from their mistakes. From taking the LSAT, to securing financial aid, to navigating the notorious first semester, to exam-taking strategies, to applying for summer internships, to getting on the law review, to tackling the bar and beyond...Law School Confidential explains it all.

Offers one hundred rules that every first year law student should live by “Dear Law Student: Here’s the truth. You belong here.” Law professor Andrew Ferguson and former student Jonathan Yusef Newton open with this statement of reassurance in The Law of Law School. As all former law students and current lawyers can attest, law school is disorienting, overwhelming, and difficult. Unlike other educational institutions, law school is not set up simply to teach a subject. Instead, the first year of law school is set up to teach a skill set and way of thinking, which you then apply to do the work of lawyering. What most first-year students don’t realize is that law school has a code, an unwritten rulebook of decisions and traditions that must be understood in order to succeed. The Law of Law School endeavors to distill this common wisdom into one hundred easily digestible rules. From self-care tips such as “Remove the Drama,” to studying tricks like “Prepare for Class like an Appellate Argument,” topics on exams, classroom expectations, outlining, case briefing, professors, and mental health are all broken down into the rules that form the hidden law of law school. If you don’t have a network of lawyers in your family and are unsure of what to expect, Ferguson and Newton offer a forthright guide to navigating the expectations, challenges, and secrets to first-year success. Jonathan Newton was himself such a non-traditional student and now shares his story as a pathway to a meaningful and positive law school experience. This book is perfect for the soon-to-be law school student or the current 1L and speaks to the growing number of first-generation law students in America.

One book answers every important question facedby today?s new law students and their families: Law School Insider is an easy-to-read, step-by-steplaw school guide taking readers through every stage of the law school experience from applyingto graduating and beyond. Includes special sections tailored to the diverse concerns of modern female and male law students.

A concise, highly accessible guide to exam success. Provides an insider s view of what professors look for in exam answers, and how exam-taking connects to good lawyering. Accompanied by a Web site with content that is both free (e.g., sample outlines, class notes, case briefs) and for-sale (e.g., sample exams and memos written by professors giving feedback on the answers). Features: High-profile, experienced authors from elite schools with hands-on experience teaching the majority of the courses in the traditional 1L curriculum Distinctive central pedagogy: the pinball method of exam-taking Accompanied by Web site with content that is both free (e.g., sample outlines, class notes, case briefs) and for-sale (e.g., sample exams and memos written by professors giving feedback on the answers). Explains to students not just the how but the why of law school exams what makes law school exams different from exams students have encountered in other settings Detailed examples provide concrete demonstrations of exam-taking techniques Highly readable: prose is straightforward and humorous; key points accented with memorably amusing illustrations Not just an exam prep book; students are offered guidance on getting the most out of classes, and law school more generally

In this new edition, Vault publishes the entire surveys of current students and alumni at more than 100 top law schools. Each 4-to 5-page entry is composed of insider comments from students and alumni, as well as the school's responses to the comments.

Essays That Scored What makes business school applications so brutal? For most applicants, it's the number, length, and complexity of the essays they have to write. Most top schools require multiple essays, and this book is your best bet for acing them all. 1. Forty-four real-life essays critiqued by admissions officers from Tuck, Chicago, MIT, Michigan, Babson, and more 2. Eight case studies of b-school applicants-what worked and what didn't 3. Essay question translations-what they're really asking 4. Insider advice from admissions officers and current MBA students at the following schools: Columbia Business School; Freeman School of Business, Tulane; Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley; Olin Graduate School of Business, Babson; University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business Inside you'll find application essays from the following business schools: Freeman School of Business, Tulane Kenan-Flagler Business School, UNC-Chapel Hill McCombs School of Business, U Texas-Austin Olin Graduate School of Business, Babson College Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University Rutgers Business School Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, U of Rochester Sloan School of Management, MIT Tippie School of Management, University of Iowa Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business University of Michigan Business School Weatherhead School of Business, Case Western Reserve

Personal Statements That Scored Face it, a lot of students have great LSAT scores. The best way for you to stand out in a crowd of applicants to top law schools is to write an exceptional personal statement. This book puts you in the admissions pro's seat; we give you the intimate details-test scores, GPAs, demographic information, and of course, personal statements-of 34 law school hopefuls. Then we show you where they got in . . . and where they didn't-invaluable information when you're evaluating your own chances of admission to the most selective law schools in the land. 1. 34 real-life personal statements by students at Yale, Harvard, Columbia, NYU, Stanford, and more 2. Where they got in; where they didn't 2. Bonus section: Patented strategies for acing the Games section of the LSAT 4. Interviews with admissions officers at Boalt Hall, Duke, George Washington, Georgetown, and Northwestern Inside you'll find essays written for applications to the following law schools: Columbia Law School Cornell Law School Duke Law School Fordham Law School The George Washington University Law School Georgetown University Law Center Harvard Law School New York University School of Law Northwestern University School of Law Stanford Law School University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law University of California-Davis, School of Law University of Chicago Law School University of Colorado-Boulder, School of Law University of Michigan Law School University of Pennsylvania Law School University of Texas School of Law University of Virginia School of Law Vanderbilt University LawSchool Yale Law School

Hundreds of thousands of students with learning disabilities head to college every year. The challenges seem endless. Aside from coping with difficulties in learning, students and their families face the daunting process of seeking out the right school for their specific needs. This indispensable resource includes: -Advice from specialists in the field of learning disabilities -Learning-disabled programs' admission requirements and graduation policies -Services available to learining disabled students at each college: tutors, note-takers, oral exams, extended test time, and more -Policies and procedures regarding course waivers or substitutions -Names, phone numbers, and email addresses of program administrators at each school -Strategies for finding the right program for each student's needs In addition to the 338 schools profiled, a Quick Contact Reference List provides essential program information for another 1,000 schools.

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