Appendix: Your First 7 Days, by Year
The whole book in one action page. Find your year, do that week’s worth of moves, and you’ve started. The chapters explain why these are the right moves; this page is just the doing.
Freshman. Pull your transcript and know your current GPA. Sanity-check your major against the three-part test: grades, skills, interest. Sign up for one reading-and-arguing class next term. Pick one activity worth sticking with and show up. Run the Annual Long-Game Audit and write your four scores inside the cover.
Sophomore. Re-run the audit. Find one professor whose work interests you and go to office hours with a real question. Send one get-in-the-room email toward a research spot or a job. Spend one afternoon on the field-research ladder, reading what lawyers actually produce. Replace rereading with self-testing in your hardest class.
Junior. Re-run the audit. Pull the published GPA and LSAT medians for three target schools. Run a rough debt number on one of them. Lock in your two recommenders by deepening those relationships now, not later. Set your LSAT timeline, since prep starts about a year out.
Senior, or applying. Finish the GPA strong. Prep for and schedule the LSAT (Anyone Can Beat the LSAT). Turn your record into a resume, recommendations, and a personal statement (Anyone Can Get Into Law School). Apply early in the cycle. Choose on net price and outcomes (Anyone Can Choose the Right Law School).
Behind, or out of school. Block your LSAT timeline first, it’s your biggest lever. Deepen one thing into a real record entry this month. Price out a gap year honestly. Use the Long-Game Map to route your exact situation to the right chapter.
That’s it. One week of the right moves beats a year of intentions. Pick your row and start.
