June 7
We're Off to See the Wizards!
I'll be seeing admissions officers -- easily a hundred of them between the two events -- and trust me, they are wizards, not only because of the wonderful things they do, but because of how skillfully they do them!
Stop for a minute (okay, a half hour) and look at my section on the Admissions Process. They're juggling US News rankings, the number of seats, institutional priorities, finances, and wait lists. Every time they pick up a file, they have to consider potential risks and potential rewards. That's a lot of factors to cover in something under 5 minutes.
Honestly, they make my job look like a piece of cake. I have a whole week with each client to get to know them, answer those risk and reward questions, and figure out how to present them to admissions officers. And most often, I do that by speaking to the admissions officers themselves. That's why I'm off to see the wizards; to you they may be as unattainable as Oz; to me they're a treasure trove.
One Wizard's Advice
Collins Byrd, Assistant Dean for Admissions at the University of Iowa College of Law, answers one of the "Risk and Reward" questions I most often have to help minority students resolve: should minority students (or die-hard urbanites like me) settle for a lesser school to stay in the big city, or should they sacrifice a bit of social comfort for a better education -- or at least better job prospects? Dean Byrd's answer is posted for your benefit right here.And Some Sorcery
What else can we call the internet? I sit here in Seattle and type. The magic wand descends, assigns colors, controls text sizes and styles, checks spelling, inserts boxes and pictures, and saves it for me while I answer the phone or get lunch.
So here's the sorcery I've created for you:
We've updated the Services section, and included our reading list, Wiki links, and You Tube uploads. We've double-checked dates and deadlines on both our Admissions services and our Intro to Law School Course. Check both out to see whether we can help you in more ways than just giving you stuff to read. |
We've updated the Navigation Map again, so it's accurate as of June 7, 2010.
We've made massive revisions to the Timeline section, adding screen shots of almost every LSAC application-related function. I want to thank Erika Keenan, my star employee, yet again for preparing these images for my Powerpoint presentation at Western Washington U. in April.
We've reached a glitch in our History of the Twentieth Century in You Tube. Client Kevin McGrath found the most obscure links for me, but some are already down. Accordingly, we're downloading from Youtube and embedding in our own pages -- a massive project! We'll keep you posted on the progress.
There will also be plenty of exciting new information by July 1, when I upload my post-Forum debrief. There are rumors that another Wizard or two may be interviewed on the road. We haven't yet figured out how to make web pages abracadabra themselves from the laptop, but we promise a new interview or two by the time we return. The NAPLA-SAPLA closing remarks focus on so I'll be able to fine-tune my crystal ball (whose reception has been notably weak these last few months) And the LSAC DC Law Forum will give me the latest news on the June 15th overlap report, the one that names names and gets the ball to start ot stop rolling. |
So come back on July 1 and see what magic we've created!