Northwestern Law + Work Exp.

Graduate School Law School
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<p>Is it basically pointless to apply to NU Law without any work experience?</p>

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<p>uh no. The work experiance is something that NU is trying to make integral thier cirriculum, so it really helps in your application. If you don’t have any but have real good gpa/lsat scores chances are you aren’t gonna be denied.</p>

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<p>Sweet. It’s just I recall reading somewhere that like over 75% of accepted students had a year of work experience, which really makes me wonder if I’m seriously disadvantaged by not having any significant, full-time work exp.</p>

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<p>Northwestern states:</p>

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<p>from their viewbook the state:</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.law.northwestern.edu/admissions/applying/JD_instructions.pdf[/url]”>http://www.law.northwestern.edu/admissions/applying/JD_instructions.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Northwestern is one of those schools where you may be disadvantage with out work experience. While they would like everyone to interview, I remember meeting with one of their admissions people who said that an interview is a must for anyone who does not have at least 1 year of work experience has to interview.</p>

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<p>how would they view 1 year of part-time experience at NU’s legal clinic + a recommendation from the director of one of the centers at the legal clinic?</p>

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<li>a summer internship at a small law firm?</li>
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<p>i’m sure they’d like it (maybe not as much as they’d like a full year of experience), but LSAT and GPA are still going to be the biggest factors.</p>