Letters of Recomendation
Letters of recommendation are 4th in the order of importance in your application (after LSAT, g.p.a., and personal statement).
- Most law schools require letters of recommendation.
- Most ask for two; some ask for one; a few ask for three. Get three if you can. The more praise you have in your file for your academic abilities, the better off you'll be.
- LSDAS will process three letters and they'll send all three to each law school regardless of the number the law school requires. Law schools know that. Therefore, extra letters are passed off as LSDAS policy and not attributed to you ignoring the rules.
- Although they appear to be the place where you have the least amount of control, students actually have much more control over the quality of the recommendations than they think they do. Why?
- You choose the recommenders.
- You give the recommenders the information from which to write the recommendations.
- You can educate the recommenders as to what law schools want.
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