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Each law school has its own distinct admissions process, including its
own form and often its own deadlines. The student will therefore
want to contact each law school in which he or she is interested individually
and get application materials.
- The American Bar Association has placed its List
of ABA-Approved Law Schools online, and that list includes links
to most of those schools so that you may learn how to contact them.
- Another excellent source of information on law schools is the annual Law
School Forum, held in major cities around the country, including
Chicago, usually in early October. For more information on
the Law School Forum, click either on the ABA site
above, or the Law School Admission
Council site below.
However, the application process has many features in common. For
example:
- the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) is
a requirement for admission at almost all American law schools. It
is a nationally standardized half-day examination designed to measure
certain mental capabilities important to the study of law. The test
is not intended to examine knowledge in a particular specialization,
but rather covers a broad range of disciplines. The questions measure
the capacity to read, understand, and reason logically using a variety
of verbal and quantitative material. There is a written ability section
designed to measure skill in using standard written English to express
ideas clearly, precisely, and fluently. The Law
School Admission Council administers this test, and its web
site contains much valuable information.
Several different commercial firms, such as Kaplan and
the Princeton Review, offer courses
which may help the applicant prepare for this test. Their web sites also
offer quite a bit of helpful information about the application process
in general, although of course at the same time they are trying to sell
you their preparation course, so use some caution.
- Virtually every application also requires a written personal
statement about yourself and why you want to attend law school. There
is even at least one commercial firm online, accepted.com,
that will sell you its advice about how to write that statement.
No recommendation or endorsement should be implied by the inclusion of
links to those commercial firms; they are provided solely for the convenience
of the student.
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