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Apr162007

How I Measure Success at PrelawAdvisor.com

"Brad Dobeck’s services at PrelawAdvisor.com were absolutely invaluable. When I started this process, I was a 27 year-old returning student with less-than-perfect grades, and genuine worries regarding law school. From the very beginning, Brad helped me put together a solid, methodical, and effective approach to the law school application process. With his help I was able to conquer the LSAT, and put together an application package that was sure to stand out and get the attention it deserved. But Brad’s services didn’t stop there.

With Brad’s guidance, I managed to receive admission offers and scholarship offers from more than a dozen law schools located all over the country, and as a result I was faced with an entirely different kind of challenge. Suddenly I had more offers than I knew what to do with, and Brad once again came through by giving me no-nonsense advice, and sharing real life experiences from his former advisees who now attend those very same schools. I cannot begin to stress the importance of Brad’s advice here.

While it is important to perform well on the LSAT and to have your ducks in a row for the application process--in order to open up as many doors as possible--deciding which school was right for me was a far more difficult task. With Brad’s help, I learned that rankings aren’t always the most important thing in the selection process, as there are so many variables to consider when investing in a legal career. In fact, the school I chose to attend was not the highest-ranking school in my pool of admission offers. However, it was without a doubt the school best suited for my needs in terms of location, faculty, student body, programs offered, and opportunities offered to help me succeed upon completion of law school.

Believe it or not, the struggle was not quite over yet. While I had survived the application process, and made an informed decision as to the school I wanted to attend, I still had to survive the real challenge: my first year in law school. With Brad’s advice, I was able to take this bull by the horns. The first year in law school can be one of the most challenging experiences of one’s life. Very little of what I had done in school up to this point actually prepared me for this experience, so having someone like Brad on my side to help me devise a plan of attack was an advantage that helped me quickly rise above the rest.

I am currently ranked in the top 25% of my class, am the founder of one of the most innovative and highly regarded programs to emerge from legal academia in recent years, and have landed a lucrative summer associate position with one of the top law firms in Denver. All of this was made possible because of the knowledge and guidance Brad shared with me, and because he has been a genuine advocate for my success.

I can’t thank him enough for helping me achieve so much."

---An advisee now at the University of Denver's Sturm College of Law.

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