Admission and the Summer Before

Getting into Law School is not an easy process.  However the application process itself is much less painless than say, applying to a Phd program.  The LSDAS is pretty idiot proof.  You just send them everything, recommendations, essays, LSAT score, and transcripts.  They take care of compiling everything.  Once you get it all gathered up and sent in, applying to multiple law schools is as easy as pie.  Since they handle sending all of the stuff to the Law school all you have to do is make sure you have the individual personalized essays sent to the right colleges.  Graduate school is a different animal alltogether.  For every school that you apply to you have to individually send that school everything.  Basically all the same stuff as Law school, including the essays, plus a writing sample.  And that writing sample has to be WAY better than anything you submit for law school.  Basically applying to Law school is the easy part, getting in is the hard part.  Plus if you are applying to different Law schools you don't have very much time to decide which of the schools you got in to accept.  Since Law schools require deposits, you pretty much have to choose early on, unless you rolling in dough and can pay the deposits for each Law school and eat the loss when you lose it.  It would be best to have in mind the order or preference as to which Law school you would prefer to go to before the letters start coming in.  This is useful unless of course you get waitlisted and then taken off the wait list, that just puts a nice wrence in the works when that happens.  Of course the summer before is just the usual, finding an apartment, getting set ready to start the grind, and lots of apprehension about what you have gotten yourself into.  Lots, and lots of apprehension and stress.  Right now I am not getting to much sleep at night, guess I should get used to that.