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Originally Posted by CaliLivChick
One question before suggestions... would it be possible to apply for the law schools you want now, and then if you don't get in to the ones you want, apply again in a year?
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Great suggestion, but unfortunately this is not possible. The SOP for law schools is not to reconsider an application unless something really substantial has changed. Raising my GPA 0.1 and working for a year won't cut it. This is a bit odd because those same changes will definitely increase my initial chances of being accepted... I talked up and down with my pre-law advisor about this and she said I cannot apply twice to the same school if I get rejected the first time.
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Originally Posted by CaliLivChick
Okay, suggestions:
(practical)
- internship at a law firm
- I'm not sure what it takes, in terms of education, to be a paralegal, or give any sort of legal advice, but something if you have enough education at this point, then something like that
- Volunteering of some kind, preferably something that relates to what kind of law you want to practice. For example, if you want to do environmental law, volunteer for an environmental organization. Real estate law, volunteer/intern at a real estate office.
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These are fine suggestions. Paralegal is certainly a possibility. I just feel like these sorts of opportunities won't do a lot to set me apart from other applicants: a lot of other people are going to be coming from similar backgrounds.
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Originally Posted by CaliLivChick
(exotic)
- Travel the world. My cousin and her boyfriend did that for a year, and had a great time.
- join the Peace Corps, or something like that, where you can go to a far away place and help people
- go skydiving, bungee jumping, or deep sea diving
- create or design something (not quite sure what, but something that interests you)
- If you had a year of your life to do whatever you want, what would you want to do?
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See, the Peace Corps suggestion is more along the lines of what I'm thinking, although perhaps not quite as cliche a post-college one-year experience as that one in particular. I want something that will make the admissions personell say "Wow, that is really interesting!"
Travelling the world, going skydiving, etc. are somewhat less work-oriented than what I have in mind, although I appreciate the broad array of suggestions.
Here are some ideas I've come up with tonight: I'd love to hear about similar opportunities, if you can think of any:
-Working to release wrongly convicted inmates
-Working on a referendum issue, such as increased protection against discrimination based on sexual orientation.
-Unusual paralegal work (don't really have anything specific in mind)
-Policy position in Washington DC
-etc.