COVID-19 has altered plans for aspiring lawyers to take the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), sit for bar exams and launch their careers. Yet, many have persevered and overcome the challenges brought on by the ongoing pandemic.
Brea Williams is a second-generation college student who graduated from the historically Black Alabama State University this past May and had planned to take a gap year pre-COVID.
“It was a blessing for me personally because I got downtime to actually organize and plan out what I wanted to do for myself,” Williams said. The gap year also allowed her some time to deal with grief following the loss of her father and best friend during her senior year.
“Law school is very intense,” Williams added. “You can’t halfway be there. You have to be 110%.”
Williams is taking the LSAT in November and is paying $1,200 for a test prep course.
“Institutions [like Alabama State] aren’t prepped into generationally making sure there’s a [preparatory] class for law students because we’re just getting to a point where we have our first bachelor’s degree,” she said.
So she had to take matters into her own hands.
