Pre-law

• Meet with your academic advisor and a pre-professional peer advisor
• Begin basic courses (silver core requirements, major requirements, etc.)
• Join a pre-law club (i.e. Phi Alpha Delta) and/or other organizations
• Seek volunteer experience (and continue throughout undergraduate years)

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• Choose a major (if you haven’t already done so)
• Begin to form relationships with professors
• Explore career options; begin writing your resume
• Seek internships or research experience
• Become involved in campus/community activities (and continue throughout undergraduate years)
• Start researching schools. A good way to begin is on the web, such as on the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) website

• Meet with a pre-professional advisor to assess your preparation and discuss the application process
• Attend law school fairs held at the University and/or in San Francisco or another accessible location
• Reality check: What are your chances? GPA/LSAT? Experience? Personal attributes?
• Consider taking valuable electives: computer classes, philosophy, communication, statistics, ethics, economics, etc.
• Visit as many of the law schools to which you plan to apply as possible
• Pick up an LSAT/LSDAS Information booklet
• Sign up for the LSAT, study and take the exam in February or June
• At the beginning of the school year, start working on your personal statement
• Attend appropriate workshops to help with the application process

• Sign up for LSDAS in late summer or early fall and send in your transcripts
• Request catalogs, application materials and financial aid information
• Ask people to write letters of recommendation
• Retake the LSAT if necessary
• Check out your graduation requirements
• Send out all applications by late November
• Make sure your LSDAS report is accurate
• Contact all schools to which you have applied early in the Spring semester to check on the status of your file
• Send appropriate people thank-you notes and inform them of your success or future plans