<p>I'm currently a 2nd year. I was planning on prepping for the LSATs this summer and taking the test in October or December. I've been reading, and it seems that most law schools suggest taking the June test the summer between my 3rd and 4th year instead.</p>
<p>Should I take their advice and take the test when they recommend me to, or should I continue on with my plan? Anyone know the reasons for why I should listen to their advice or why my plan is bad? </p>
<p>And if I should listen to their advice, what should I do with my summer? It seems a tad late to be looking for internships or some study abroad program. Would community service be a good use of my time (given that I regularly volunteer already during my time at school)? Or is there anything I can do that is productive?</p>
<p>I don't need any classes from a community college, though, so I'm aiming on avoiding that. </p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>My first piece of advice is that unless you have an LSAT of at least 165, you may want to reconsider whether or not law school is really for you. The job market in the legal profession is extremely tight these days, and it’s going to be rough out there unless you can get into a top 14 school or graduate in the top 10% from a non-top school. </p>
<p>That said, if you’ve decided Law School is really what you want to do, focus on prepping for the LSAT, and volunteer in your spare time. Don’t worry about internships because 1) law schools really don’t care and law school admission is largely a numbers game, and boosting your LSAT score by 3-4 points will impress law school adcoms a lot more than even an impressive internship, and 2) you’ll have plenty of time for an internship next summer.</p>
<p>Honestly if I were you, i would take a class or two this summer so that I could reduce my load in the fall (less load = better GPA usually) To me the summer is a really great time to take classes with labs because professors often cut out much of the junky busy work that they have time for in the long term.</p>
<p>Neither volunteer or work experience, nor anything else matters to law schools. Law school admissions in its current form is a numbers game. If I was not going to take any classes this summer I would read two books: Planet Law School and 1L both of these books are classics and can be found either at your local library or picked up off of Amazon or your local book store for almost nothing.</p>
<p>I would also take a practice LSAT and see where your score lies (always timed, anyone can make a 180 untimed.) If you are not where you want to be then get a copy of the Powerscore bibles and work on the logic games section; the logic games are the only part that people usually show much improvement in.</p>