The Law School Saga (part III)

(Continuation of Since the Last Time we Wrote pt. II)

Kevin vowed "Never again!" to the LSAT and we moved on. 

In the beginning, I thought that once the LSAT was over, life would be peachy. Wrong.  

The next step was to apply.

Two days after the LSAT Kevin started working on his applications, which mainly consists of writing a personal statement, better known as a brag about yourself essay.  So by the time we got his score back he already had his personal statement in the works.  He set a goal to have his applications in by Thanksgiving, so for 3 solid weeks he drafted a new version of his personal statement each day.  On any given day he had at least 15 different word documents open on his laptop.  Each night he would read me his new one and we would discuss pros and cons.  Some were really good but others were straight up boring.  At the time it seemed trivial to have so many renditions of the same point but in the end it proved to be really beneficial.  I truly believe that the final draft really was his best essay.  Thanks to help from all of our friends who proofread and critiqued, he was able to get the bulk of his applications off by November 17 (a week before Thanksgiving).       

And then it was a waiting game. Easy, right? Wrong. 

We didn't realize how nerve-wracking it would be to have our future completely determined by someone else-- an admissions committee who didn't even know us!

Less than a week went by and we received our first piece of fate-mail.  Already? It was surreal.  An acceptance!  Then for each week after that for five weeks we received one acceptance. And of them offered a full-tuition scholarship.  The initial law school freak-out was proving to be unnecessary. We were extremely grateful!

Our first rejection came in January after we had returned home from winter break, it was bummer, but we were still on the high from the acceptances we had already received, so it didn't hurt as much as I thought it would.  And then in mid January we received a wait-list notification from our number one, we'll-be-really-lucky-if-we-get-in-there, school: George Washington.  We were thrilled!  It was only a wait-list but it wasn't a rejection either! 

So we started brainstorming ways to get accepted off the wait-list.  Kevin did a ton of research and read about several ways to improve his chances, including sending letters of continued interest and making regular contact with the admissions office.  And then there was the unthinkable: retake the LSAT for a better score. 

And that is what he decided to do.