The Importance of Academic Letters of Recommendation

Miriam: Why do admissions committees focus so much on academic letters of recommendation? She says people who have experienced you as a student or in other kinds of academic settings have the most to say about how you're going to be as a law student. Miriam: If even one of those three offers a more tepid recommendation for you, it's such a downer when you read two good ones and then you get to the third one.