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An account of my 8-month-long journey
I still don’t know what got into me, but I decided I wanted to pursue law as a career on a random weekday in March of 2022. I was on track to become a teacher through my university program and throwing that away to pursue something completely unrelated was daunting and risky. Becoming a teacher was something I thought I wanted and something my parents pushed for me, seeing that I wasn’t particularly ambitious in any other field. Teachers do an incredible and crucial job fostering the next generation, but I knew I wasn’t cut out for it. A part of me has always known that I wanted to pursue law but I spent years undercutting myself and dismissing what I was capable of. As my senior year of university was drawing closer to its end, I made the decision to pursue law as a career.
One of the biggest obstacles I had to immediately come to terms with when I began preparing to apply was that my GPA was not good at all. I had many excuses: my part-time job, ADHD, and the long commute to school; but at the end of the day, I knew that I could have done better had I put in more work. Fortunately, my mantra is to always look past things I cannot change and focus on things I am capable of shaping. I knew law schools considered applicants’ LSAT scores in conjunction with their undergraduate GPAs. So I decided to…
