Please note that as of 9/1/16 we are at capacity and can not take on any additional admissions clients in the short-term. We suspect, however, that some of our early clients who are in the process of submitting applications will be finalized by early next week. So please check back soon and we will update here. Many thanks. Mike
Read full postWe are excited to announce that Danielle Early, former admissions officer at Harvard Law School, has joined The Spivey Consulting Group as an Associate Partner and full-time consultant. Karen Buttenbaum, who hired Danielle at Harvard Law, speaks toward Danielle's enthusiasm for helping students and applicants: Danielle comes to us with an incredible amount of experience working with students -- and I know that she will care very much about seeing her clients succeed just as she cared about her
Read full postOur Pre-Law program helps soon to be law students get a jump start and leg-up on their classmates in the all important 1L year. Because of exceptional demand we have recently had to stop taking new students -- but no longer! We have just hired Marianna Moss: http://www.spiveyconsulting.com/about/#Moss and thus have room for 8-10 new clients. You can reserve Pre-L courses for now! http://www.spiveyconsulting.com/law-school-preparation Don’t wait until they are full, you can reserve your spot no
Read full postA brief update on our capacity and intake for the rest of 2015. Derek, Karen and Mike are all at capacity until January 2nd, meaning we will be unable to take any further full-cycle clients or full-application clients until early January, 2016. We are still available for Personal Statement strategy and editing, "one-off" essays such as C&F, "Why X School" etc., and we are still taking reservations for both the 2015/16 cycle (work to be starting Jan. 2nd) and 2016/2017 full-cycle clients. All o
Read full postWant Spivey Consulting to share law school admissions secrets directly to you and your pre-law classmates this Spring? Karen, Derek, and Mike have spoken at over a hundred colleges and universities, including… Princeton, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell, Berkeley, Vanderbilt, Rice, SMU, UT-Dallas, SMU, Johns Hopkins, Penn, Columbia, NYU, Georgetown, Maryland and many more! …and we would love to come see/revisit your school. How will the talk go? Testimonial 1 from Rice: “Mike and
Read full postLast year we almost immediately filled up our one-on-one Pre-Law courses [http://spiveyconsulting.com/services/pre-l], which help 0Ls get a jump-start on the all important 1L year. Don’t wait until they are full, you can reserve your spot now by emailing Rob Cacace at rob@spiveyconsulting.com. Need more encouragement? We just got the below: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Mike, ***Just wanted to follow up with everything, only 2 weeks left u
Read full postWe are at capacity and I want to give a bit more detail on when we will open up for new clients. Derek: Will open up spots at the beginning of August Karen: Will have availability early September Mike: Will have availability early October Please know that starting with us in August (Derek) will mean that you will have your applications entirely completed for the first wave of file reading should you want. Additionally, if you are taking the October LSAT starting your application in Sept. or
Read full postFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BOULDER, CO — The Spivey Consulting Group, LLC is excited to announce that Derek Meeker, a current law school admissions consultant and former admissions dean and file reader at two of the top 10 law schools, has joined Spivey Consulting as a Partner. Derek will help prospective law school students from start to finish in their admissions application process and, as part of Spivey Consulting’s full services, will use his experience in “BigLaw” to help current law students
Read full postAs we approach the start of another cycle, we wanted to take a moment to look back at the past several. The majority of our clients go to the very most selective law schools, which we eagerly admit is reflection on them more than it is on us. They are simply really good people and we help to let law schools see this. Most are splitters or reverse splitters. What do we do? We help come up with a distinctive brand with each individual, and help them submit the best possible law school application
Read full postA quick update for those interested in our services. As of 5/4/2015 we have hit 50% capacity. We limit our number of clients intentionally so that we can be both highly responsive and highly individualized in our services. We expect to reach capacity in the next few months for those who want to submit applications in September, and then have more opening after the Early Decision results come back. To discuss what we offer and our pricing feel free to email us at info@spiveyconsulting.com. And
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