For Prelaw Advisors
LawTrack
- The LawTrack program is a free month-by-month prelaw email
planning system.
LawTrack identifies a student's
current academic year and provides instructions on what
they should be doing for a particular month and how to do
it.
LawTrack reinforces the advising
that you provide. It ensures that each student gets the
reminders and instructions they need when they need it.
LawTrack's goal is to help students plan far enough in advance
to do well on the LSAT and their application.
You can download a
flyer about LawTrack to distribute to your students.
STEPS to the LSAT and
the Summer Prelaw Intensive (SPI) Programs
- You can refer students to these programs, designed
to provide extremely affordable, high quality LSAT and admissions
support for students who may have limited resources.
Both programs are aimed at students who may
not have the family, cultural, or financial resources to
pay for commercial help. In fact these programs are a more
cost-effective approach even for students who do have resources.
Students work independently as much as possible and save
their money for personal coaching if they need it.
By making your students aware of these resources,
you are helping them to choose the programs that make the
most sense to them.
You can review details of STEPS and SPI here.
You can download flyers for distribution to
your advisees and prelaw clubs for: STEPS
to the LSAT flyer and for SPI
flyer
LSAT and Admissions
On-Campus Prep Programs - You can use our STEPS to the
LSAT and our Summer Prelaw Intensive (SPI) programs to create
your own on-campus services.
Both STEPS and SPI are "turn-key"
programs that require almost no work - and no funding! -
on your part. Prelaw advisors have used one or both to create
highly affordable, long term LSAT support programs and/or
focused admissions support programs on campus.
Example 1: In the fall or
spring you could announce that you are offering an LSAT
support program on campus. Students might meet twice a week
for six weeks. You would designate a location for students
to meet. You would direct students to the website for STEPS
to the LSAT. Each student would register individually. The
cost is about $103.
Each student receives the STEPS materials
directly from the STEPS website. The materials direct the
student's day by day practice. When students meet together,
STEPS provides a proctor's manual so that one of the students,
or someone appointed by you, directs the day's 2-3 hour
class.
You don't have to spend anything on instructors
or materials.
You may or may not wish to meet with the students
during the 6 week program.
Example 2: You may already
by running certain LSAT or admissions programs that are
using a lot of your funding resources. You can use STEPS
and/or SPI to cover much of the instruction at a much lower
price. You can then save your funding for more personalized
or specialized programs for students.
One school in Texas currently pays a commercial
prep company close to $800 per student for summer LSAT and
admissions prep. They serve about 50 students for a total
cost of $40,000. By using the STEPS system combined with
several STEPS-trained instructors, they calculated that
they could serve 50 students for under $3000 total. The
saved money would allow them to reduce the charge that each
student paid and to serve more students.
There are many ways to use STEPS and/or
SPI to run your own programs. Programs are fully
funded by the students' enrollment fees. All enrollment
and administration is done by the STEPS or SPI program,
not by you.
The STEPS and SPI programs are guided by a
national advisory board of prelaw advisors and professionals.
Both programs are co-sponsored by the following organizations: