Look at a school’s MEDIAN numbers for the most accurate gauge of your chances of admission. If your LSAT and LSDAS GPA are both below the school’s medians, your chances of admission are extremely slim even if your numbers are above the school’s 25%ile numbers. The overwhelming majority of people who are accepted with a below median gpa have an above median lsat and vice versa, but with the most consideration given to relative LSAT performance.

Writing an addendum to explain a poor performance on the LSAT is almost never necessary.

Thanks for this great tip!

A good way to check to see whether any of your “Net Trails” can be traced back to your real name is by Google searching your full name in quotes along with the Internet usernames that you frequently use.

Using one of your examples, Chris Johnson should do the following search in Google:

“Chris Johnson” ChrisJ19823

This will return any websites on Google that have his real name and his username on the same page.

That’s exactly correct.

The reason why you want to use the “within ‘x’ words” operator as compared to exact-match quotes is to account for the inclusion or absence of a middle name.

If I search “Judge Jorge Shapiro” for instance as,

Judge /3 (Jorge /2 Shapiro)

LexisNexis will be able to find his name if Judge is within 3 words of Jorge when Jorge is within 2 words of Shapiro?

So basically his full name and title could quite very well be –

Judge Senor Dr. Jorge Pachulia Shapiro?

P.S. – Don’t mind my crazy example, those are the only names and titles coming to mind as of right now. ; )

The best way to do this is to begin with the steps in tip #4. Instead of searching for an attorney or law firm, search for the following:

judge /3 (firstname /2 lastname)

This is an effective search because it accounts for the inclusion or absence of the judge’s middle name or middle initial.

Hope that helps. Good luck!