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...Students come here feeling like they made a difference [in high school]," says Tanya L. Barnes '00, who revived the Harvard Mock Trial Team and founded the Pre-Law Society with Lauren A. Wetzler '00 and Thomas G. Saunders '00. "It becomes natural to want to have that same thing in college...
...will remain close, leaving her proctorship to become a pre-law tutor in Adams House and helping to develop a national board for Project HEALTH during the summer...
...actual 'substance' of the LSAT, there isn't any," writes Pforzheimer House pre-law adviser Gene Koo in an e-mail message. "It's not like the MCAT--a lot of it involves reasoning and logic, and that's something that's hard to teach...
...heard people say that sitting with a bunch of tense test-takers makes them very tense," says Dena O. Rakoff, director of pre-law advising for the Office of Career Services. "I've heard people say they've lost the intuitive approach they came to the test prep program with...and now they can't get back to their own. The experiences are not always panaceas...
...observation is that work experience oftenexposes recent grads to many new careerpossibilities that they prefer to legal careers,"says Pforzheimer House pre-law tutor Kayla Bakshi,who worked in consulting at McKinsey & Co. beforecoming to Harvard for a joint J.D. and M.B.A.program. For those students who have a vagueinterest in the law, deferring law school orwaiting to apply gives them time to get anon-the-job idea of whether or not they really wantto be lawyers. The time just after collegegraduation "is also a great time to find out moreabout the legal profession and see if it is reallywhat...