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ABA-LSAC Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools 2006 (Aba Lsac Official Guide to Aba Approved Law Schools)
by (Editor: Wendy Margolis) (Editor: Bonnie Gordon) (Editor: Joe Puskarz) (Editor: David Rosenlieb)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Law School Admission Council, Inc (2005-04-15)
ISBN: 0976024519
EAN: 9780976024514
Dewy Decimal #: 340
Paperback: 400 pages
Release Date: 2005-04-15
SKU: 07100188
Condition: Very Good As issued
Comments: Oversize Trade Paperback. 2006 Edition. Ex-library copy with usual library markings. Very Good condition with no other markings. No highlights, underlines or notes in text. No creases to spine or cover. Minor wear to cover. Tight binding and clean crisp text. Very Nice copy.
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Customer Reviews
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Essential to applying to law school
Rating  (5)
Date: 2007-03-31
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
I used this book 6 years ago when I was applying to law school. The hard part about applying to law schools is that only a few people actually know anything about a particular law school's quality or reputation. Rankings do not help in making any meaningful distinctions between schools and actually can actually hurt the applicant in selecting a school as he may overlook a great law school simply because of a poor ranking. Personally, I find the US News and World Report ranking meaningless because the rankings are based on the personal knowledge of a small number of people who probably don't know much more than you do about the law schools they are ranking.
Use this book properly. Check the ratio between students and professors and the average class sizes. Check the number of available courses and then make sure the courses you want will actually be avaiable to you and that the school isn't simply advertising a course that is open only to 10 students once a year. Is there an abundance of clinics with adequate space available so that you do not have to be a top 10% student in order to get some real-life lawyering experience before you graduate? Lots of schools have various clinics, but it won't matter if your chances of participating are slim to none.
Basically, make sure you are not applying to Law School X over Law School Y just because X is number 35 and Y is number 150. These rankings change every year and school can jump from one tier to another for apparantly no reason or another may stay down at the bottom just because it's small or new even though the professors are outstanding. Decide what type of professor you want - would you prefer a famous scholar or a former practicing attorney with thousands of trial cases under his belt.
Remember that the first year curriculum at EVERY LAW SCHOOL is established by the ABA and must be substantially the same, so make sure that by the time you get to your second and third years you can start focusing on what you really want to do and have the resources and professors to actually have a shot at getting your dream job. In this line of work experience is key.
Remember not to place too much value on the application/acceptance chart as the chart simply represents statistics and much more goes into your acceptance than your LSAT score and cumulative undergraduate GPA. Treat your application the way a lawyer would - convince the admissions board that even your shortcomings and unfavorable circumstances are actually the very reason they should accept you.
In parting, I have attended two law schools - one top and one low in the rankings. The law school with a tier 4 ranking made clinics available to every student and had practicing attorneys teach a multitude of fascinating courses as visiting professors. Consequently, that school produces a huge percentange of succesful trial litigators and politicians. In contrast, the top 50 law school had only 10 classroom in a run-down one-story building crammed full with students who had to scramble to get into the interesting courses but mainly took the courses that had any room left. Plus, the clinics were nearly impossible to get into. Unless you go to an Ivy League or a Stanford, law school is really what you make of it -- think hard about what you want to get out of law school, where you want to live, where the majority of jobs are in your future field of expertise and spend a lot of time researching the law schools using this book.
Good luck!
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Don't try applying to Law School Without This Book
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-12-02
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Anyone who decides where to apply to law school without using this book as their bible is missing the point entirely and losing out on the greatest likelihood of success. As the former director of admissions for two ABA law schools, and as the proprietor of www.Law-School-Admission-Expert.com and lawschoolexpert.com, I rely on this book in advising all of my law school admission consulting clients.
It is the only "official" law school book that can be 100% trusted and is completely devoid of bias. You can actually look up statistics of admitted students for most of the nation's 200 law schools. It provides a great summary of every ABA law school. Applicants often make the mistake of relying on chat rooms and on line discussions in deciding where to apply and their chances of admission at a particular school - that is the absolutely wrong approach. This book is the absolutely right approach.
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Law School Must Have
Rating (5)
Date: 2005-09-08
6 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
If you are applying to law school, you must have this book. The grids showing the GPA in comparison to the LSAT score, and your chances of getting in are enormously helpful in the application process. There are no opinion pieces here, just the straight facts directly from the law schools.
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