Status Check with Spivey

In this podcast, Spivey Consulting COO Anna Hicks asks Mike some admissions questions from Reddit, covering large-scale changes to law school admissions due to the pandemic, reapplication strategies, how law schools look at "KJDs," whether or not you should explain why you want to go to law school in your personal statement, how to write Why X statements when you can't visit a law school and don't know anyone who attended, and more. You can listen and subscribe to our podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, and Google Podcasts. We mentioned a number of other blogs, podcasts, and YouTube videos in this podcast — they are linked below: Podcast: Recapping the 2020-2021 Law School Admissions Cycle & Predicting the Upcoming Cycle Podcast: Interview with Dr. Gabor Maté, Author of "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts" Podcast: Dr. Guy Winch on Handling Rejection (& Waiting) in the Admissions and Job Search Process Podcast: Interview with Dr. Kristin Neff on How Self-Compassion Can Help You Achieve Your Goals Podcast: Traits of Law School Applicants Who Outperform Their Numbers Cycle Recap Podcast: No Rejections in the Hardest Admissions Cycle Ever Blog Post: All Things [Admissions] Considered Blog Post: Don't Dox Yourself / Podcast: Mike Spivey on the Darker Side of Self-Doxing in Law School Admissions Mike's All-Time Favorite Law School Personal Statement Personal Statement about Jazzy the Cat Podcast: On the Prevalence of Bad Law School Admissions Advice Video: How to Choose a Law School Personal Statement Topic (featuring Derek Meeker's discussion of "MWECs," or "moments when everything changed")

In this podcast, Mike Spivey is joined by PowerScore founder and CEO Dave Killoran and Spivey Consulting Business Intelligence Director Justin Kane — a wonky law school admissions/LSAT crew if there has ever been one! — to discuss takeaways from this previous 2020-2021 admissions cycle and to make predictions for the upcoming 2021-2022 cycle. You can listen and subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, and Google Podcasts — just search for "Status Check with Spivey." spiveyconsulting.com | spiveyblog.com | myrankbyspivey.com

In this podcast, Mike and Spivey Consulting COO Anna Hicks have a discussion with a current law student, Amanda Bello, who ended her 1L year at Cornell Law in the top 10% of her class, transferred to Harvard Law, earned exceptionally strong grades at Harvard, and is now going into her second summer with the big law firm Gibson Dunn (check out our interview with Gibson Dunn partner Jeff Chapman here https://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/interview-with-jeff-chapman/). Also referenced in this podcast are three interviews we have done with renowned psychologists and wellness advocates: - Dr. Guy Winch (on handling rejection and waiting) https://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/podcast-with-dr-guy-winch/ - Dr. Gabor Maté (on self-esteem, doubt, anxiety and addiction) https://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/podcast-interview-with-dr-gabor-mate-author-of-in-the-realm-of-hungry-ghosts/ - Dr. Kristin Neff (on self-compassion and self-esteem and motivation for test-taking) https://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/podcast-interview-with-dr-kristin-neff/ You can listen and subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, and Google Podcasts — just search for "Status Check with Spivey." spiveyconsulting.com | spiveyblog.com | myrankbyspivey.com

In this podcast, Mike Spivey has the opportunity to interview Dr. Kristin Neff, a leading researcher and advocate in the field of self-compassion, creator of the self-compassion scales, and author of two books, "Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself," and her upcoming book, "Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and Thrive," which will be released on June 15, 2021. Mike and Dr. Neff discuss the power of self-compassion for motivation and achievement, and the research showing that, in a testing scenario, a boost to self-compassion proves a stronger motivator than a boost to self-esteem (and a far stronger motivator than self-criticism). "There's so much pressure to achieve, to prove yourself," Dr. Neff says. "And I think people fall into the illusion of thinking, 'I need to be hard on myself, I need to drive myself so that I can get ahead in life,' where in fact, what the research shows is you're more likely to get ahead if you support yourself." You can listen and subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, and Google Podcasts — just search for "Status Check with Spivey." spiveyconsulting.com | spiveyblog.com | myrankbyspivey.com

A very brief update on law schools that are over-committed on their seat deposits, and Mike's thoughts on how waitlist movement might go this summer as a result. You can listen and subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, and Google Podcasts — just search for "Status Check with Spivey." spiveyconsulting.com | spiveyblog.com | myrankbyspivey.com

In this podcast, Mike Spivey speaks with Dr. Gabor Maté, one of the world’s leading experts on physical and mental health and author of four best-selling books including "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts" and "When the Body Says No." Dr. Maté shares his thoughts and advice on self-doubt, stress, anxiety, and addiction, and offers the following insight for prospective law students (among others): "You're going to look at all your confident classmates, and you're going to go in there with all manner of self-doubt. You're making the big mistake of comparing their outside with your inside. You have no idea what their inside is like. And believe me, you're not the only one." You can listen and subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, and Google Podcasts — just search for "Status Check with Spivey." spiveyconsulting.com | spiveyblog.com | myrankbyspivey.com

In this episode of the Status Check podcast, Mike interviews Reddit user lightningmcboops (who for the purposes of this podcast we're calling "Megan") from the law school admissions subreddit. Megan applied with a 3.9x GPA and a 172 LSAT and received zero rejections despite applying in the most difficult law school admissions cycle we've ever seen, including straight admits from the majority of the T14, including Stanford. Mike and Megan walk through her application process and each of her application components, then discuss some takeaways and advice for future applicants. You can listen and subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, Google Podcasts, and RadioPublic — just search for "Status Check with Spivey."  spiveyconsulting.com | spiveyblog.com | myrankbyspivey.com

In this podcast, Mike Spivey explains how the scholarship negotiation process works from the law school's perspective and gives some advice and tips for how to strategically approach increasing your merit aid offers. You can listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, Google Podcasts, and RadioPublic — just search for "Status Check with Spivey." spiveyconsulting.com | spiveyblog.com | myrankbyspivey.com

You can also listen to this podcast on YouTube https://youtu.be/x5Zh0E_-AIc or Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spivey-consulting-law-school-admissions-podcast/id1477090223

In this podcast, Mike Spivey discusses perspectives and considerations as we head into the 2021 law school waitlist season. You can also listen to this podcast on YouTube https://youtu.be/F_hbOg8wnDA and Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/spivey-consulting-law-school-admissions-podcast/id1477090223