More on Law School

I have read so many great blog posts about law school. I feel slightly obligated to post about my experience to hopefully help others. I also want to.

I am not a traditional student. I am in my early 30s preparing for law school. I am a mom to an older child. I am a reservist wife.

What does this tell you?

1. I will not be leaving the local area.
2. I am going into law school with a pretty solid head on my shoulders.
3. I do not party. I enjoy being in bed by 9am. Seriously.

I have not seen blogs for law students that match this type of criteria. I guess that makes me unique in the law student blogging sphere. I am okay with that. At least I will not be emphasizing the same thing over and over online.

Ok. So I applied to my two law school picks. Absolutely crazy to think that I have officially applied to law school. Even more amazing is that I have actually gotten a call from one. It is the harder one to get into. I was offered a spot in their Fall 1L class. I know. I should be more excited. I thought I would be until I went to an open house at the other one. I actually really liked it. As a non-traditional student, it felt right.

I spent some time talking to God about it. I want to go where He thinks I should go. I told Him it would make it a lot easier if the other school wait-listed me or just denied me. That is now that happened though. I got a call really fast with a positive answer. So far law school has gone nothing like I expected. That became really overwhelming to me this past week. I ended up having a mild stress attack.

Now, I am waiting on a call from the other school. So far not a peep. I got an email with my log in information for their status checker service. That is all. B (hubby) and I were joking about how funny it would be if I got a denial from them. That would be a clear answer! I seriously do not know what God is doing but I know it will be good. He is good. I am learning to give the stress to Him and rest in His peace.

Inevitably, people want to know LSAT scores. Mine was definitely not fantastic. It was good. It was really good for me. I got a 154. My first practice test was a 147. I was very proud since that was completely cold. I did not study and did not look at a test question. After 3 months of Kaplan classes and about $1000 (after discounts for Pre-Law Club membership and attending their practice test), I only raised my score to a 154. I literally improved on my Logical Reasoning zero percent. I did much better on Logical Games and Reading Comprehension. My highest score in the class was a 151 so, after a root canal and that high score, I was happy with my 154.

More on law school later. Hopefully, I will have an answer from the other school.

fin.