The Stuff of Dreams

DANIEL O. BERNSTINE

President, LSAC

We are all looking forward to this year’s Annual Meeting and Educational Conference at Disney’s Yacht & Beach Club Resorts in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. The logo for Disney’s parks includes the tagline: “Where Dreams Come True.” Law schools are also in the dream business, and the dedicated admission professionals who will be attending the conference perform the magic (and hard work) that makes dreams of attending law school come true.

In our real world, technology does the job of Disney’s singing forest animals and dancing brooms—helping applicants embark on the path to their dreams and making it easier for law schools to help them realize those dreams. All of the ingredients needed for a complete law school application process are combined in the Credential Assembly Service cauldron, and the resulting brew is tapped through ACES². Magic!

It would not be an overstatement to say that many applicants would find Cruella De Vil to be less cruel than the LSAT. On the other hand, the test is a dream come true for admission committees needing to discern which princes and princesses are most likely to succeed in their law school.

If candidates had a magic lamp, they might wish for fee waivers for the LSAT and CAS, law school forums where they could attend workshops and meet law school representatives in person, and low-cost LSAT study materials. For many candidates, LSAC genies have granted all of these wishes!

Our annual meeting is a wonderful opportunity to renew our spirits, so we can find fresh inspiration for making candidates’ dreams come true. Great friendships like Buzz and Woody’s, Bambi and Thumper’s, and Dory and Marlin’s are made and renewed at every LSAC Annual Meeting and Educational Conference. It’s an opportunity to fuel our minds with new ideas and information so that we can “keep swimming.” And, it’s an opportunity to fulfill our own dream of fun in the sun at the big, wonderful playground that is Walt Disney World^® Resort.

We dream of seeing you in Orlando!