So you’ve signed up online with LSAC , and you’re probably asking yourself what to do next? If you are in the beginnings of your undergraduate years, the answer is pretty simple: get involved.
Law schools love, aside from the 4.0 GPA and 175 LSAT scoring students, individuals who are involved in their university and community. They want law students who have a desire to be active and enjoy giving back. As a lawyer, you will be constantly working with community members, so any volunteer work you can do during your undergrad will add brownie points to your application. Along with extra-curricular activities and leadership positions on campus, any sort of resume booster can help give you the edge you need to come out on top of a student with comparable GPA and LSAT scores.
In the past few years, I have been vice president of my school’s Pre-Law Society, president of the European Studies Club, and member of Polyglots and the student newspaper. Whether I learned valuable negotiation tools at the European Union Simulations or worked on my writing skills with the bi-weekly student newspaper issues, all of these have helped to prepare me for law school in some way or another.
So get involved and stay involved.
Agreed! The more involvement you have the more valuable experience you obtain.
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