Last week, admissions deans from six leading law schools answered questions about the law school admissions process that were posed by an unnamed news publication. Four of these admissions deans then posted the insightful responses on their school’s official admissions blog. As a result, applicants to leading U.S. law schools can now visit the Stanford Law, Columbia Law, Yale Law and Michigan Law admissions blogs and find a treasure trove of information about the admissions process straight from the minds of the gatekeepers to their dream schools: Asha Rangappa from YLS, Nkonye Iwerebon from CLS, Faye Deal from SLS, Sarah Zearfoss from Michigan Law, Anne Perry from Chicago Law and Ken Kleinrock from NYU School of Law.
Each dean contributed well thought out and detailed responses to questions such as “What do you look for in a personal statement?” and “What can applicants do to set themselves apart from their peers?,” providing future applicants with a snapshot of exactly what the law school adcom looks for when they read an application. Plus, their responses to the “mini-forum,” as Dean Iwerebon called it (Dean Deal likened it to speed dating), reveal the personalities of each dean, which, in addition to being fun, serves to affirm the humanity of the applicants’ audience and thus might make the application process seem less intimidating to law school aspirants.
To read all of the deans’ responses, applicants will need to visit the YLS, SLS, CLS and Michigan Law admissions blogs, as each dean posted just two or three questions on her blog.
