We have been at full capacity and on a wait list for much of the fall of this cycle, so we would like to invite anyone who would like to work with us next cycle to secure your spot for 2020-2021 now.
Read full postAs many of you know, we have spent the past several months developing a tool for prospective law school applicants to create their own customized law school rankings.
Read full postJust The Beginning is a national pipeline organization that serves students from groups that are underrepresented in the legal profession with the goal of inspiring young people to consider careers in law and increasing diversity in the legal profession.
Read full postAs of today, we are excited to announce the launch of our newest project, My Rank!
Read full postOur regular Pre-L course is full, but we have decided to offer two spots in an abbreviated Pre-L crash course during the month of August, perfect for learning the techniques to ace your law school courses right before the semester starts.
Read full postThis past year (the 2018-2019 admissions cycle), at 29 of the top 30 law schools, our clients exceeded or greatly exceeded the admissions rate of each school.
Read full postPeter Cramer, currently the Assistant Dean for Graduate Programs at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, will join The Spivey Consulting Group in July as Senior Consultant and Director of LLM Consulting to launch our LLM Consulting service. In this capacity, Peter will also add invaluable insight to our entire team on all international applicants to law school. Dr. Cramer started his law school career at Indiana University Maurer School of Law and later went to Georgetown Universit
Read full postGood or bad, it seems almost everyone has something to say about law school rankings. One of the primary flaws of rankings, however, is that they dictate what is important by assigning weight to different categories. When algorithms and methodologies behind rankings change, or when new rankings are created, it is often with the purpose of adjusting the importance of the metrics that go into them to make them better or more meaningful to the people who are looking at those rankings. But no matter
Read full postI am writing to address the cheating scandal in undergraduate admissions. At the start of my academic career, I taught business ethics at the University of Alabama. In that course, we spent the vast amount of time talking about different ethical imperatives: what is morally and ethically important to people and to societies and why. But at the end of the class I added one more element: we case studied companies and people who cheated. I wanted students to see that even if they possessed any ince
Read full postBig news — we just launched our new Spivey Consulting Group YouTube Channel [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA_Rbmm6gSV09dUwrnlBjyQ]. On the channel, we'll be posting videos with all sorts of law school admissions advice on topics like how to choose a personal statement topic, getting off of waitlists, basics of scholarship negotiation, whether you should write a diversity statement, how to ace a law school admissions interview, and more. These videos will come from many of our consultants, fo
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