Name: David Stoltzfus

Major: economics

Law School: NYU

How many schools did you apply to? What criteria did you use in picking these schools? 5. Rankings, basically.

How did you prepare for the LSAT? Do you have any advice? 10 practice tests. Get yourself comfortable. From talking to others, professional testing services seem to help. Logic games is the section most learnable.

What strategies did you use in networking with the professors and employers who wrote letters of recommendation for you? I picked professors who I liked, did well in their class, and who were prestigious.

How did you go about writing your personal statement? How much did you change your personal statement to fit each school? Mine sucked. I never know what to say on these. I wrote about how I liked analysis.

If you had a chance to go through the process again, is there anything you would have done differently? Applied to Harvard and Yale, schools I considered to elitist at the time.

Is law school like you expected it would be? Why or why not? Yes.

Any final advice? Don't believe the scare tactics. I don't know why lawyers/law students try to scare pre-law students out of becoming lawyers. Law school, and being a lawyer, requires dedication but is really not that bad.