Practice Management

Ann Levine over at Law School Expert has a good little post about the fear or anxiousness some might feel to apply on the first day applications are excepted at law school in order to get the best advantage.  Her position is that you need to of course be diligent at getting your application and materials to the law schools you have chosen to apply, and deadlines are important, but the rush to make the opening bell is not necessary.  Even if the school has a rolling admission process, she states that law school admission officers are off recruiting people to apply to their law schools, and they are not spending much time, if any, in September reviewing files.  Her concern is not that you should avoid applying at the bell, but that you might sacrifice the quality of your application and the process in order to meet this artificial deadline.

My concern also centers on those law school applicants that believe they have somehow suffered because they were not immediately out of the gate with their application.  Maybe they decided on the school later.  The meet the opening bell mentality might discourage them from moving ahead.  This should not happen.