Podcast: Happy Holidays—Plenty of Admits Are Coming in 2023
In this short episode of Status Check with Spivey, Mike offers some optimistic news for law school applicants who may not have yet received any admits.
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23 Dec 2022
30 Nov 2022
Podcast: Law Schools Leaving the U.S. News Rankings—Implications for This Year & The Future
If you haven't already heard, a number of law schools have recently announced that they will no longer be participating in the rankings. But what does that actually mean? Why are they doing it, and why now? What impacts might it have on applicants, law students, and legal education as a whole?
Read full post10 Nov 2022
Podcast: What It's Like Applying to Law School, Part 2 (Interviews)
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Spivey Consulting COO Anna Hicks-Jaco checks in with "Lucy," u/Accomplished-Body785 on Reddit, an applicant currently in the middle of her law school application process. This episode is primarily focused on interviews!
Read full post12 Oct 2022
Podcast: Catastrophizing in Admissions (& Why It's Going to Be Okay)
In this short episode of Status Check with Spivey, Mike talks about applicants' (deeply understandable) tendency to catastrophize in law school admissions.
Read full post03 Oct 2022
Law School Admissions Bible Table of Contents
We are excited to have recently completed and submitted to publishing the upcoming PowerScore/Spivey Consulting Law School Admissions Bible, scheduled to go to press next month (November 2022)! Here's a preview of the Table of Contents.
Read full post24 Sep 2022
Podcast: What It's Like Applying to Law School, Part 1
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Anna Hicks-Jaco speaks with an applicant from Reddit! They talk about the LSAT, personal statements, letters of recommendation, resumes, optional essays, and more.
Read full post20 Sep 2022
Podcast: UVA Law Admissions Dean Natalie Blazer Dives Deep into Law School Admissions
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Mike interviews Natalie Blazer, who currently serves as the Assistant Dean for Admissions and Chief Admissions Officer at the University of Virginia School of Law.
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Greek Life & Law School Admissions: Should You Include Your Sorority/Fraternity in Your Application?
We often hear from applicants who feel they should scrub their resumes and other materials of any mention of their involvement in fraternities or sororities. While some applicants in online forums seem to support this prohibition, the best approach for you individually might be more nuanced.
Read full post12 Aug 2022
Podcast: Law School Admissions AMA with Mike Spivey & Dave Killoran (Part 1)
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Mike and Dave answer questions from the Law School Admissions Reddit. This will be a series of two episodes, with Part 2 coming out next week.
Read full post01 Jul 2022
Early Thoughts on the 2022-2023 Application Cycle + 2021-2022 Recap
It's certainly too early to make predictions with any sort of certainty, but given that we now have final June LSAT numbers, and registration for the August LSAT is now closed, we now have some early indicators of what we might expect to see in the 2022-2023 law school admissions cycle.
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