Book Description
Whether one is a college junior facing the LSATs, a senior sitting with disappointing test scores, or someone who has always dreamed of a career in the law, there is too much at stake not to ask the hard questions about what lies ahead.
How to choose the right school
How to get in
How to succeed as a student
How to find career fulfillment
In How to Get Into Law School, Susan Estrich lends her unique point of view and far-ranging experience-as ace law student, tenured professor, renowned legal scholar and analyst-to the life and career questions applicants will face, and answers them in the frank, no-nonsense manner that is her trademark. Featuring anecdotes from admissions directors, professors, veteran attorneys, and adventurous students alike, How to Get Into Law School lays out the facts on:
Applications
Essays
Getting Scholarships
Community service
The Rigors of Studying
Surviving Interviews
Finding Employment
About the Author
The first woman president of the Harvard Law Review, the youngest woman to receive tenure at Harvard Law School, and the first woman to run a presidential campaign, Susan Estrich is now the Robert Kingsley Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Southern California. She is the author of the national bestseller Sex & Power and Making the Case for Yourself, as well as a nationally syndicated columnist, a contributor to USA Today, a mother of two, and a legal and political analyst for FOX News.
How to Get Into Law School FROM THE PUBLISHER
Who are you? A college junior, wondering if you should join the herd and sign up for an LSAT prep course? A disappointed senior, whose numbers don't reflect who you are? A third-year law student, looking with horror down the long road to partner? A weary worker with an armful of law school brochures, wondering if it's time to make a career change? Or maybe you're just another miserable lawyer? Who's advising you -- your friend who declared himself "pre-law" in junior high? A recruitment poster? Your mother? How are you going to make the right decisions? There is too much at stake not to ask yourself the hard questions about what lies ahead. In How to Get into Law School, Susan Estrich takes aspiring law students beyond the numbers game of high-rated schools and LSAT scores and conducts an examination that will help determine if practicing law is truly what you want to do with your life and whether you have what it takes to be a lawyer. Estrich lends her unique point of view and far-ranging experience -- as ace law student, tenured professor, renowned legal scholar and analyst -- to the life and career questions you will face, and answers them in the frank, no-nonsense manner that is her trademark.