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Welcome to advisory opinions. I'm Sarah Isgard. That's David French. And do we have an exciting

podcast for you? We've got not one, but two special guests. That's right. We're talking

law school admissions with the deans from Yale and Harvard. We'll be right back.

David, we have the Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid, Miriam Ingber from Yale Law School. And we have the Dean of Admission from Harvard Law

School, Christy Jobson. Hello, ladies. Hello, hello, hello. Now, y'all have your own podcast. Will you just

tell us about that? Sure. So back in 2020, the two of us looked at each other and we said, well,

we can't travel all around the country to meet law students. So what are we going to do? And somehow

we bat around the idea of a podcast,

bought microphones off Amazon.com, I think. And then five years later, now have this podcast

that has over a half a million listens across all its episodes. It's navigating law school

admissions with Miriam and Christy, and you can find it on Apple or SoundCloud or wherever you

enjoy your podcasts.

All right. I mean, there's been a lot of changes in the law school admissions process.

Christy, do you want to just kick us off with like a march through the process?

Sure. Okay, so you submit your application through the LSAC portal and you as an applicant might wonder, what happens next? I've taken the L-SAT or the

GRE. I've got my letters of recommendation in there. What happens? So usually your application

is processed by some number of processors that can take a couple of business days. And from there,

it goes to a reader. Pretty much every law school admissions office reads applications roughly in the order that they're received. So, for example, my team has a drop each week on Thursday morning and all the applications are due the next Thursday, and we kind of read everything we've received in the last week. When you are reading applications, you are thinking of a couple really key

questions for yourself. You're asking, is this person an academic fit for my law school? You're

asking, does this person have a good reason for going to law school? Is this someone who has a

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