Episode 29: Law School Expert Ann Levine Helps You Decide Which Law School to Attend

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2015

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Ann Levine, law school admissions expert, answers your questions about how to decide which law school to attend. Some of the topics Ann addresses are: What factors should I assess when deciding on a law school? Is there a methodical way to go about it, like creating a spreadsheet to compare? How important are a school's clinical offerings, course variety, and student organizations? Are specialties important? What about specialty rankings? Does the law school's 509 report accurately portray student data? Does it include the percentage of transfer students, and can I use the 509 report to gauge student satisfaction? How do I make the most of my campus visit? What tell-tale signs should I look out for? I want to visit a school, but it will cost about $300 in airfare, hotels, rental car, etc. Will a law school cover some of these expenses? How do I negotiate offers from multiple law schools? Take a listen and let us know what you think. And don’t forget to sign up for our email newsletter to learn more about the launch of our upcoming Logic Games book! We’ll be looking for people to read the book and write a few reviews. Interested in helping us out? Sign up and we’ll be in touch!

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0:00.0	The Hello and welcome to episode 29 of the Thinking El-Sat Podcast in San Francisco I'm Nathan Fox.
0:22.3	With me in Washington, D.C. is Ben Olson.
0:25.0	Ben, how you doing?
0:26.0	I'm doing good. It's gotten a lot warmer here.
0:28.0	Nice, nice.
0:30.0	And speaking of warm, in Santa Barbara, California, We have Anne Levine, Anne how are you?
0:34.6	I'm great thanks.
0:36.3	Thanks for coming back on. We've received tons of great feedback about your appearances on
0:40.9	the show and people were clamoring to have you back. This time of year,
0:45.5	especially we're dealing with some interesting issues as people kind of sort through
0:50.5	offers that they might have received to law school.
0:54.3	So we got a bunch of questions today from listeners
0:57.4	about deciding what school to go to, visits to schools, all sorts of data questions.
1:04.6	I think we should just go ahead and dive right in.
1:08.5	So the first questions on the agenda here,
1:11.8	student asks what factors we should assess when deciding on a law school.
1:17.0	Is there a methodical way we should go about this?
1:19.0	Should we create a spreadsheet to compare the schools?
1:22.0	And then there are a couple questions here about the importance of
1:24.7	clinical offerings, course variety, student organizations, specialties at schools, specialty
1:31.6	rankings.
1:33.2	That's a ton of stuff, and Anne,
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