With nearly 100,000 students applying to law school each year, the competition has spawned a new industry: admissions consulting. Although the consultants charge as much as $300 an hour and claim many successes, law school admissions officers are not happy with the increased numbers of canned personal essays and slick packaging. Chloe Reid of University of Southern California Law School says, "It's a gimmick ... I think consultants exploit students by making them feel they have an in."
May 24, 2006 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Donald Resnick has learned to spot the telltale signs. Slick packaging and a cookie-cutter personal essay are dead give-aways that an undergraduate has paid an admissions consultant to pretty up a law school application.
As a former dean of recruitment for New York University School of Law and the current director of graduate enrollment for the entire university, Resnick said he sees an increasing number of applications that he suspects are polished by admissions consultants.
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