The Ultimate Guide to Law School Admission: Insider Secrets for Getting a "Big Envelope" with Your Acceptance to Law School!

by Carol L. Wright and Carol L. Wright

Everyone who applies to law school dreams of the day they will open their mailbox to find a big envelop containing their letter of acceptance. During her more than fifteen years as a pre-law advisor,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0974289108
• ISBN13: 9780974289106
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Marriwell Publishing
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

The best law school book ever!

I can't believe how great this book is. I followed everything Ms. Wright said to do, and was admitted by some of my schools, but not by my dream school. Then, I got a letter from my #1 school telling me I could go on their waitlist. I followed all the instructions in this book, and today I got my letter!!!! Needless to say, I got in, and I am REALLY looking forward to going to law school in the fall. Thank you Ms. Wright for all your wonderful advice! This book is the best.

Everything my advisor SHOULD have told me!

My advisor never asked any of the right questions or gave me the kind of information that would have helped me with my plan to study law. While looking for books on the LSAT I found this book and it really helped. It told me everything that the best advisor would have told me. It really helped me evaluate how I felt about law school and how to properly prepare myself. The last time I went back to my advisor he was shocked at how much I knew. I feel really good about my applications and think I have a really good chance of getting a "big envelope".

MUST READING FOR LAW SCHOOL APPLICANTS!!!

As a college professor who has advised law school applicants for over 25 years, I found that this book is simply the best one I have ever read on applying to law school! I was so impressed by this book that I now require my students to read it before talking to me in detail. This book is so concisely written that it can be read comfortably cover-to-cover, unlike some of the other advising guides, that are so unwieldy that students do not want to wade through them. The comfortable and clear writing style of the book makes you feel like you are sitting down with Ms. Wright for a personal advising session. These students have consistently come back to tell me that this book was THE SINGLE MOST USEFUL thing they read to help them with the law school application process. Those who critique this book as not having "insider secrets" have clearly not read it thoroughly. I was impressed by the large number of "insider secrets" to the process, that were previously unknown to me and my pre-law advising colleagues. Because of this book I have completely changed the way that I advise my students, and have noticed that their success rate for law school admissions has been rising dramatically. The key in this highly competitive applications environment is to know how to pick the schools you are applying to, and target your applications for those specific schools. The tips in this book tell you how to do that. This book also really goes through the two-stage process of law school admissions today--wherein you can get a variety of "envelopes", or notifications on the status of your applications. Schools do not just admit or deny you these days. There is a whole range of responses, and the wise applicant needs to know how to maximize their chances of turning any of them into an admission letter. This book helps you do just that. If you want to get into the law school of your choice I urge you to read this book, then read it again carefully, and follow all of its advice! I am confident that your "big envelopes" will be sure to follow!

The best book available about getting into law school

I have read several other books about getting into law school, and this one is clearly the best. It has many "insider secrets"--many of which are in its "Tales From the Trenches"--that you will find in no other books. For instance, I was surprised to learn that east coast schools differ from west coast schools in what they expect in a personal statement. This book tells you what those differences are, and how to turn that to your advantage. In addition, the "15 Essential Factors" listed for choosing your law schools will make you see the schools you are considering in a different light. The appendix to the book gives you data on each of the law schools so you can start using the factors right away. Instead of making your choices on one or two factors, such as reputation or a magazine ranking, you will find schools where you will be admitted, be successful, and be happy. You will also learn how to choose the schools that will help get you to the kind of career you most want--or what to do if you are uncertain about what you want to do with a law degree. I especially like the fact that this book is written for everyone--not just those who believe that they are destined to go to an "elite" law school. The advice in this book is terrific for the elite schools, but also helps those who are not "presumptive admits" to the most competitive schools. It contains a unique system for analyzing your credentials to determine where you will get in--including a system for analyzing your chances when competition for admission is changing from year to year as it is now. Unlike many books that are filled with a lot of useless information masquerading as advice that make the book larger and more expensive, this book is insightful and concise, and written in a manner that is easy to read and comprehend. It is, I believe, the best purchase you can make for advice on getting into law school.

THIS BOOK SAVED ME OVER $100,000.00!!!

Boy am I lucky to have found The Ultimate Guide to Law School Admission. I picked it up because a friend recommended it to me as being the best book for the law school application process, and was she right! When I got the book I skipped right to the chapters on the admission process and found the whole thing very informative and encouraging. It let me know that even though I'm not the best student, there are plenty of schools that I would definitly get in to, and it told me how to make my application the best it could possibly be. I am sure that I would have gotten into at least a couple of the schools I had picked to apply to. However, lucky for me, before I sent in my applications I decided to read the book again. This time I started with the first chapter "Should I go to law school." Guess what? Being a lawyer isn't what I thought it was! I mean, this book told me things about what lawyers personal lives are like, and what their average work day is like... stuff that I had never gotten anywhere else! This chapter convinced me that I would not be happy being a lawyer! Not only did this chapter save me from the expensive application fees... it saved me from spending the next three years wasting my time, and tuition money, pursuing a degree that would have put me in a job that apparently isn't right for me at all! Thank you Mrs. Wright, you saved me $100,000.00! I definitly recommend that EVERYONE read this chapter first! Don't go to law school without it!!!