The African American Pre-Law School Advice Guide: Things You Really Need to Know Before Applying to Law School

The African American Pre-Law School Advice Guide: Things You Really Need to Know Before Applying to Law School provides comprehensive and detailed information on the admissions application, grade point average, the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), personal statements and essays, interviews, supplemental materials, recommendations, financial aid and money matters, and choosing a law school.

In addition, this book features special sections including:

Do You Really Want to Go to Law School?

Affirmative Action

About Law School and Beyond

Things You Can Do to Enhance Your Application and Make Yourself an Attractive Admissions Candidate

Your Admissions Decision

Special Admissions Programs

Alternative Legal Education Options

Networking

Recommended Readings and Viewing, and

Truths and Motivational Notes.

A useful "straight out" outline is provided in the beginning of the book which gives you all of the basic advice given throughout the book in a limited number of pages.

PLUS an extensive appendix with pre-law resources, the ABCs to Law School Acceptance, a law school listing, law school submissions, and Strategize! Pre-Law School Strategy Planner! (which includes: "create your 'ideal' resume", a "create a strategic plan for law school admission" chart from freshman to senior college years, LSAT Strategy study plan sheets, personalized LSAT study schedule pages, the LSAT practice test-score tracker, and an essay/personal statement planner). In addition, there are sample letters, a steps to admission checklist, an admissions timetable, a law school admissions budget, guidelines for recommenders, an essay/personal statement checklist, an application process organizer/checklist, special profiles of predominantly Black law schools, a choosing a law school checklist and a listing of Black law firsts. No other law school admissions guide provides all of this!!!!

This reader-friendly guide is filled with numbered and easy-to-read facts, insights, advice, observations, antidotes and anecdotes regarding the competitive law school admissions process. If you are serious about getting into law school, you will want to read this book cover to cover!

Catered to addressing the issues that specifically affect African Americans applicants, this book shows tactics that will show any applicant how to piece together their application and portray himself or herself as the ultimate law school candidate. The book also provides a step by step guide through each part of the application process.

This book written for African-Americans by an African-American woman gives the perspective of the law school admission process from someone who has successfully been through the process.

If you want to truly ensure that your law school admissions process is a success, I HIGHLY recommend that you purchase a copy today. It is a true investment in your future. Take it from someone who has just gone through it.

Thanks to the advice in this book I have been accepted to UC Berkeley School Of Law the # 7 Law School in the country and the advice in this book will help you excel above other law school applicants just like I did.


A few hundred things you need to prepare for law school   January 2, 2003
 13 out of 13 found this review helpful

Evangeline Mitchell, in her book The African American Pre- Law School Advice Guide, attempts to aid the African American future law student through the hoops of preparing for law school. In this four hundred page comprehensive guide, she covers information from a student's motivation to enter into law school to different truths about law school.

Beginning with her personal experience, Ms. Mitchell gives testimony to the difficulty of law school and the necessity of this guide especially for African Americans. Brick by brick she constructs the detailed steps from the question "Do you really want to Go to Law School?, to an appendix that includes other references, Black Law school profiles, needed checklists, and more.

As a person who considered law after receiving my degree, I picked this text up with anticipated interest. Initially intimidated by its many pages and small font I was impressed with the enormous amount of information. Ms. Mitchell wonderfully anticipated that reaction and created a "straight out" outline designed for easier reading. This outline lays out the main points of each chapter so that the reader can utilize this guide as a reference guide

Ms. Mitchell's organization of this book is probably the most impressive thing about the book. As stated before the outline is a definite plus and the appendix was full of such great information that realistically it could have been a book unto itself. Although there are testaments of its success included in the book, Ms. Mitchell does include a disclaimer that everyone's experience will be varied and this book was designed simply as an aide. However I cannot imagine how a guide this well put together could be anything but helpful.

Kotanya
APOOO BookClub