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How significant is it to receive an invitation to apply to a law school?

I just took the June LSAT, and did well. I have since received numerous brochures and letters from top universities, such as William and Mary, U. of Minnesota, and Seton Hall. I also received an e-mail from Georgetown University, inviting me to apply, and waiving my application fee.

How significant is this gesture, and what are the odds of my getting in based on this invitation? Is there a very high probability, or do law schools send out numerous similar invitations, simply hoping to attract the highest number of applicants possible?

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It’s no guarantee of anything at all. Law schools make big bucks from the application fees and their US News rankings also go up if they reject more people.

If you have no hard interest in some of these schools, I’d only apply if the application fee is waived. If Georgetown did waive your fee, apply. You can ask for fee waivers from some of the other schools. If you get it, go ahead and apply.

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Each university has an average LSAT score that they like to recruit from. If you score their average or higher, it has become increasingly common for them to email you inviting you to apply and usually with an application fee waiver. That doesn’t mean that you’re 100% getting in, especially to the top law schools that you’re applying to. However, it does mean that they believe you’re at least to par with their average admit based on LSAT score and they’d like to give you another look. So I would take it as a good sign, but don’t count on it being a for sure sign of admittance.

It is possible that they only send it out to candidates that are above their average that they have a particular interest in. For example, I was emailed by Baylor, who I hadn’t considered applying to previously. With the fee waiver, I thought, what the heck, and applied. They gave me a scholarship and that’s where I now will attend in the fall. So, again, it’s a good sign, but don’t take it as guaranteed admission to the school.

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Kristal W
i believe you will get in based on the invitations you have received

they do not do this for every one that take the LSAT

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Anonymous
Don’t go.

After three F^&*ing years of law school and an intensive bar review class you sit for the bar.

However, the idiots who developed the software don’t bother to test it and it randomly deletes answers.

And like hundreds of other bar applicants you are screwed because of idiot software engineering.

It is not worth it.

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