<p>I'm sure I'm not the only one concern with this, but I am really stresses out because I will be applying to law school nex year, Fall 2010, and I have no clue who I am going to get to write my LOR. I attend a HUGE public university, where most of my classes have atleast 300 people, and really haven't been able to create a relationship with my professors. Last semester I started taking more upper level major course where the classes were smaller but still had a hard time getting to know my professors. Most of them were to busy doing their own research, traveling, etc., and were never in their office during office hours. On top of that I interned at an insurance company the entire semester, and now work there full time for the summer, and can stay there until I graduate. In high school I was really close with all my teachers and received amazing LOR but now I'm afraid that I won't be able to get a good one, if any. </p>
<p>It's really hard getting to know your professor, and allowing them to know you when you attend a big university. Is one semester really enough time to ask a professor if they could write a LOR for you? I rarely have the same teacher more than once.</p>
<p>… You don’t have to know your professor very well personally to receive an amazing LOR. Most students who ask for LORS barely know their professors and vice versa. Which is fine, because all law schools really need is “he was in the top x% of the class; he is a good worker”, etc. If you know your prof really well, that doesn’t guarantee an amazing LOR (some profs will perhaps write a worse LOR than had they known you less well, upon learning about your disgusting personality), and not knowing your professor very well does not mean you cannot receive an amazing LOR.</p>
<p>I have the EXACT same concern! I feel like students at private universities have it so much easier in that all their professors get to know them individually. I work 25+ hours a week, so its nearly impossible to get to office hours outside of my already tight schedule. Lets home schiesser is right!</p>
<p>^^ Law schools also want to know your character, your passions, your leadership, etc.; not just information they can see from your transcript. </p>
<p>That being said, while you don’t need to necessarily know your professors intimately, you should at least have a good relationship with the ones you are asking LORs from, and they should have a good comprehension of who you are as a person.</p>
<p>I’ve always wondered, do fantastic LORs from famous Professors in related fields even help? What about LORs from Law Professors I am working for?</p>
<p>It has little to do with how “famous” the professor is, and more to do with how much they can speak about you as a person. That being said, if you get an incredibly famous professor/professional to write you a very good LOR, it certainly won’t hurt you.</p>
<p>Certainly, I was more wondering if it can have any affect similar to the situation for a Ph.D program, where a fantastic LOR from a top Professor can make a candidate. I know it certainly won’t hurt me, but would a very good LOR from a top Professor that I worked for at HLS give me a boost at school like Yale, Harvard, Stanford, or Chicago?</p>
<p>If you’re looking for the degree of helpfulness it may have, I can’t help you there. Other factors are much more important such as GPA and LSAT score. A strong LOR will help you, though, there is no doubt about it.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice, im not as stressed out about it anymore, hopefully schiesser is right</p>