Penn State University Law Students
First-year grades are important -- very important. Your 1L grades at Penn State University School of Law will not only determine your eligibility for law review and other honors, but will dictate what job opportunities are available when you graduate. This is because the most selective legal employers recruit law students at the beginning of their second year, and they often will only interview law students who finished at the top of their 1L class. Given the staggering cost of a legal education, and a highly competitive legal hiring market, adopting a trial-and-error approach as a 1L is a flawed strategy. Learn why preparing for the challenges you will face during your first year of law school can help protect the substantial investment you are about to make in your legal education.
More than 99% of our surveyed customers have said Law Preview met or exceeded their expectations:
Law Preview helped prepare me for what was a vastly different workload from undergraduate studies. During my week at Law Preview, I made the mistakes I would have made during my first semester. I was better prepared for the difficult questions, study aides, and workload than my classmates. I found myself comfortable with the law school rhythm, I knew how to make outlines before many of my classmates realized how crucial they would be. Because I was comfortable with the grading system, the class structure, the importance of my first semester grades, I focused immediately on my classes without fear, hesitation or trepidation. Law Preview is not the answer to an 'A' in a particular class, but a set of tools which teach students what law school (grades, competition, workload, exams, stress, Socratic Method, etc.) is like. Throughout the semester, I knew what was expected of me and what I could expect to experience in the traditional classes, on the exam, and in the legal research & writing course.
Wow! That's how Law Preview has effected my law school experience. Attending that intense week of Law Preview set me up for success. Not only did I have the opportunity to get a 'preview' of the classes and the type of environment that I would be entering into, I got to look at some of the hardest cases before the real thing even started. That might not seem like a lot, but reading Palsgraf through once simply isn't enough. Through the first semester I'm ranked in the top 10% of my class. There's room for improvement for sure, but I know that I wouldn't have gotten this far without the help of Law Preview!
Okay, so you took the LSAT and made it to law school. What now? Well, few students realize that what is even more important than your LSAT score is your first year GPA. Your first year GPA is essential to getting that coveted high-paying summer internship following your second year in law school, which in turn sets you up for a six figure salary following graduation. Additionally, a high first year GPA can also qualify you to transfer to a higher-ranked law school, which essentially negates a low LSAT score and increases your chances of employment following graduation. But that is easier said than done. The truth is, one needs a leg up on the competition. For me, that was Law Preview. I was an engineer in undergrad and did not do that well on the LSAT. However, Law Preview helped me learn the skills I needed to learn, and put together a plan of attack for my first year. I ended my first year of law school ranked in the top 5% of my class, which lead to me transferring from Penn State to UC Davis (at the time, it was a jump from #92 to #32). Not only that, but because of my stellar first year grades, I was able to land that high-paying summer internship as well. Without the help of Law Preview, I definitely would not have experienced such success. Furthermore, the faculty and students were great, and I still keep in touch with many of them. It is a unique experience that I would recommend to any future law student. With the help of Law Preview, you WILL succeed in law school!
I finished 2nd out of 170 students in the second semester at the Dickinson School of Law, and number 11 overall. Law Preview definitely helped me to adopt the correct mind-set for Law School. Applying the lessons outlined during the course of the week throughout the year enabled me to achieve great results. Thanks a lot!
