If you decide to take a gap year to work before law school, who writes your letter of recommendation? Your employers or your professors? Sorry. This might seem like a question with an obvious question, but I’m confused.
Law schools prioritize academic recommendations, so you should still get recommendations from your professors even if you’ve been working for a year (or more). It can be a good idea to get a letter of recommendation from a work supervisor, but only if it’s in addition to 1 or 2 academic recs.
@SlippinJimmy So would it be possible to get the letter of recommendation before taking the gap year and saving it to apply when the time comes? Because idk if in one or two year time the professor would still remember who I am.
Also one more thing… I recently transferred to NYU from a community college, but I’m worrying that it is not elite enough to have a chance to get into elite law schools like Columbia, which is my dream law school. Would where you go for undergrad influence your chances of getting into a top law school? How much of a difference would it make?
NYU undergrad has plenty of people who go to top law schools–and NYU itself is certainly a top law school.
Yes, you can ask professors for letters and then save them until you actually apply. You just have to create an LSAC account, and the professors submit the letters through that. I think LSAC accounts are good for 5 years.
And you have nothing to worry about with NYU. The most important factors in law school admission are LSAT and GPA — the prestige of your college doesn’t matter much. And to the extent that it does matter, NYU is plenty prestigious.