A2Z S2, E12: Soft Factors That Will Make or Break Your Application

Having a good GPA and LSAT score isn't enough to get you into law school. And having numbers below the medians isn't enough to keep you out. So what are the other "soft" factors that can make or break your application?

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🕔 Time Chapters 🕔

00:24 Soft Factors
01:48 Numbers are great, but other factors did not go well
2:09 Getting no sense of the applicant's personality
03:05 Sense of arrogance, lack of humility, self-centered
04:18 Overly negative
05:05 Being overly dramatic
05:24 Redundant essays
05:58 No experience outside of the classroom
07:10 We care about writing
07:46 Lack of authenticity
09:20 Low LSAT and GPA but strong candidates
10:33 Make sure it looks like you put effort into it
11:00 Conveying interest in the school
11:36 Supportive Letters of Recommendation
12:05 We like to see something unusual or interesting
12:55 Strong, positive sense of personality
13:30 Strong writing
14:22 Teach us something
15:05 Doing something outside of your "expected zone"
16:10 Numbers aren't everything
16:38 Grammar - "re"