Hello all. I thought an introduction to be in order.
Considering my OCD and general “control freakishness” chances are excellent that I’ll be here regularly over the next 18 months as I prepare for LS.
Sooooo…I’ve scanned many of the posts here and I’m slowly working my way through Liz’s awesome sticky. If any of you grand pubas of LSD have any advice I welcome it!
My stats: ummm. Perennial underachiever with delusions of relevancy; full ride undergrad almost ten years ago that I royally screwed up by trying to be cute; now I’m considered a “non traditional” student at a small, private college where actual monks roam free on the grounds; was a poli. sci. major in a former life now I’m an econ major and phil minor; currently holding tight at a 4.0 but with a year to go prefer to assume I’ll eff up somewhere along the way; just took my first LSAT practice exam and scored a 150; figured I’d use it as my diagnostic control since I’d never looked at a Logic Game or any other such nonsense all the days of my life.
I’m taking one of those free Kaplan LSAT tests this weekend and am hocking my innocence debit card for books. I excelled at RC and the Logical Reasoning, not so much the Logic Games. I’ve focused on them for the past week now and I’m getting better…on the simple ones. The more complex (two, three elements and how many diff combos can you make type) I’m straight guessing my way through with a 40% success rate. I figure that beats the 30% success rate I get when I actually try to do them!
I’m realistic. I’m not looking to go T1 though I’m sure as hell applying to Yale. All they can say is no. Beyond that my major factor, being a bit older with some work experience, is cost. As such I’m sticking in state or with schools most likely to offer me FA. I know no one is gonna hire a 34 YO af-am female with the bad habit of not much caring about people’s egos to work in Big Law and I’m too accustomed to weekends to do it anyway.
My interest is Labor/Employment Law, Mediation, ADR, and Union negotiations. I’m aiming for an EEOC internship or something similar and want to leave the door open to go into consulting or policy center-type work later on. I’m delusional in thinking I can help or do something that matters one day.
My specific questions?
- Am I crazy? Old and going to law school?! Don’t answer that.
- With a 150 start what are my real chances for a ten-point leap with careful preparation? How would you map out my study plan?
- What would you tell yourself, were you me, at the beginning of this journey?