Select a major in a field that both interests you and allows you to excel academically
Take increasingly challenging courses during your academic career, focusing on ones that enable you to hone your critical thinking, writing, speaking, problem solving, and research skills
Explore the legal profession by seeking out jobs, internships, or volunteer positions in legal environments to determine if a legal career is right for you
Get involved: Consider joining the student organization, Law Society, and/or pursuing other opportunities on campus and/or in the community
Meet with a Pre-Law advisor to express your interest in attending law school and to develop a timeline for taking the LSAT and applying to law school
Cultivate relationships with your professors so that they will know you and your work well enough to write you letters of recommendation
Read a newspaper (i.e. New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post) every day. Not only will you stay informed, but doing so is good training for developing critical reading skills (which must be developed over time) and for the reading comprehension section of the LSAT
Prior to the Start of Your Junior Year
Take a free diagnostic LSAT through test-preparation service to assess your "baseline" score. Begin familiarizing yourself with and preparing for the LSAT, and consider whether you should enroll in a commercial preparation course.
Junior Year (2 years prior to entering law school)
Continue to take challenging courses, focusing on ones that enable you to hone your critical thinking, writing, speaking, problem solving, and research skills
Continue to explore the legal profession
Begin to research law schools
Engage in rigorous preparation for the LSAT, and plan to take the test in June of your junior year and no later than September of your senior year.
Think carefully about whether you will go straight to law school after graduation or take some time off
Maintain existing relationships with your professors, develop new ones, and approach your professors and ask them to write letters of recommendation
Summer Before Your Senior Year
Continue to explore the legal profession, and secure a summer job or internship in a law-related field
Draft and obtain feedback on your personal statement for your law school application
Continue researching law schools and compile a tentative list of schools to apply to, keeping in mind their average LSAT scores and GPAs
Senior Year (1 year prior to entering law school)
Continue to take challenging courses, focusing on ones that enable you to hone your critical thinking, writing, speaking, problem solving, and research skills
Continue to explore the legal profession
Continue to research law schools
Meet with a pre-law advisor to discuss law school applications
Complete your law school applications by November 1st and no later than Thanksgiving
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