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Originally Posted by Bond
I'm actually planning on taking it in June '10, but I started studying this summer (ridiculous, I know).
I was talking about it to BlueFire a few months ago, and was thinking of making a thread for study strategies and such if there is interest.
What are your plans as far as taking the LSAT / law school?
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Plan on taking it next October, devoting the entirety of the summer to that study effort and reading a few books throughout this year. Am applying for the Law Fellows program here too, which offers some great benefits to the people that make it in (75 out of 35,000 students). They include:
-Professional-Level Instruction by Law School Faculty
-Personalized Juris Doctorate (Law School) Action Plan
-Mentoring by Current UCLA Law Students
-Full Scholarship for one LSAT Prepartion Course
-Presentation by Practicing Attorneys and Leaders in the Law Community
-Admission, Financial Aid, LSAT, and Public Interest Law Workshops
-Legal Research Primer by Law Library Staff
-Follow-Up Activities and Counseling until Law School Matriculation
This program is heavily favored toward disadvantaged and minority groups, so hopefully my family's lower class economic status and the fact that I've received full financial aid for the past 4 years will help me out.
As Law School itself, I'd ideally want to stay in CA, and go to a top 10 program, which leaves me with the options of either Berkeley or Stanford, numbers 3 and 6 respectively. This suits my goals quite well actually, because I want to focus on Intellectual Property and/or Copyright Law and both Cal and Stanford have been back and forth between ranking 1 and 2 for the past several years.
I'm shooting for Stanford though, because I'm ready to hit up a private school after 4 years of the University of California system. According to
Admissions Predictor, I'd need to score a 174 with my GPA in order to be considered a Strong candidate for Stanford, but of course I'm shooting for that 180 like everyone should.
I plan on using
Blueprint Prep for my LSAT class, which will you be using?
ps: Your 172 diagnostic score is amazing this early on. Props.