Prospective law school students, awaiting admissions decisions or still writing personal statements and soliciting recommendations, might also be thinking of where they “hopefully” will be this time next year: the library.
As current law school students press on through exams, applicants could consider how they will approach future finals periods.
Given this, a recent post on The Wall Street Journal’s Law Blog addresses some such strategies. The blog reached out to accomplished 2Ls and 3Ls and asked them to complete the phrase, “The smartest thing I did while preparing for my 1L first-semester exams was….”
For example, Rogan Nunn, a 3L at the University of Virginia School of Law and editor of the Virginia Law Review, advised: “By far the most useful thing I did when preparing for 1L exams was to round up a few people from the class and take old exams.” Nunn indicated that they took the exams under realistic conditions with concrete time limits and then comprehensively discussed answers.
The WSJ Law Blog also received feedback from law students at Vanderbilt, Brooklyn, Columbia, Iowa and Berkeley Boalt.
The post builds off of a previous entry in which the blog asked law school professors to weigh in on what determines a good law school exam answer. That question received input from law professors at Yale, Michigan, Creighton, Marquette, UCLA, Columbia and Stanford. Both strategy articles can be accessed from the above link.
