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17 Nova L. Rev. 979 (1992-1993)

handle is hein.journals/novalr17 and id is 1011 raw text is: Getting Into the Right Law School (My Roommate the Moonie Scored in the 98th Percentile on the LSAT and Got Into Harvard. Why Didn't I?) D. Robert White* Neither law schools nor their admissions officers care about the whole person. Law school isn't college. It isn't out to mold you into a better human being, or to prepare you for life. It doesn't care whether any of your classmates will like you. Sure, you swam the English Channel in ski boots, and you play classical ukulele. You managed the varsity jazzercize team, and you were the first male in your school's history to play Lady Macbeth. But law schools need more Junior Achievers like the Titanic needed more ice machines. Law Schools look at two factors: grades and [SAT scores. They just plug the figures into a formula and take as many applicants as they have room for (discounted by the number of people who will die, go to other schools, or decide there must be a less painful way to gird one's loins for life). What about those stupid essays and recommendations required by the application? These should be viewed more as obstacles than opportunities. Your essays could show you to be barely literate, notwithstanding your magna cum laude English thesis at Princeton: Over 100 Really Good Knock, Knock Jokes. Your recommendations might say only that your methadone treatment appears to be working and your parole officer thinks well of you. If you're an undergraduate determined to go to law school, your best strategy is to go for the highest grades and LSAT scores you can get. There may be some well-rounded, likeable people in law school, but that isn't what got them in. THE LAW SCHOOL ADMISSION TEST (LSAT) There is ongoing debate as to what the LSAT measures beyond your ability to come up with the $40.00 to register and several No. 2 pencils. * © 1983 Daniel White. Excerpt from THm OFFICIAL LAWYER'S HANDBOOK (1983).

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