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Just want to let everyone know where I currently am in my law school search. This past summer I visited several law schools in California including Stanford, UC Berkley, Hastings, UCLA, USC, and Pepperdine. I am hoping to visit the University of Michigan this quarter, Ohio State, and some other area schools. I hope to visit the East Coast schools this summer. I am a junior, but plan on graduating in December of my fifth year. So I will be delaying law school and taking the LSAT a year later than normal.

I will write more about each college I visited later, but I definately decided to apply to UCLA and USC. They are a lot like Ohio State and I love it here. I feel like I will be able to suceed at another college similar to Ohio State. I was surprised that I actually didn't like Stanford, which was my first choice for undergrad.

I have also several books on getting into law school and LSAT prep. I will discuss each one in more detail later, but I strongy encourage anyone thinking about Law School to check a few books out of the library for a feel of what you're getting into. I know law school is going to be challenging, tiring, and even boring at times, but I at least I am going in prepared, knowing this. I have also learned that the LSAT is the most important factor in law school admissions because it helps predict how you will do on the bar exam. So while I'm working hard to raise my GPA from a shaky start freshman, I will spend the better part of next year studying for the LSAT. There are many tools available to help you study for the LSAT from classes, to pratice tests, to books on "unique" techniques. Hopefully I can do well enough to get into the university of my choice (which ever one that ends up being.)

Econ is a fairly common major for pre-law students. However, I feel like I have a slight twist because I'm in econ through the Fisher, so I actually take more business classes than I do econ classes.I also feel like my professional writing minor will help prepare for the massive amount of writing I will do in law school. I want to be as prepared as I can in law school because once you graduate that's real life.