Who We Are
Our bespoke law school admission consulting services reflect your needs; we help you craft essays that stand out from the herd.
Law school admissions decisions are personal, and so is our advising process. We get to know you as an individual, uncovering your distinct passions and skills, and we use that connection to help you craft a narrative that transcends the personal statement. Storytelling is at the heart of what we do: we help you create continuity out of chaos, find tension in the typical, and transmute the substandard into the sublime.
(Sometimes we also get too enthusiastic. Thus, rewriting is critical.)
Our company name, Amicus Advising, comes from the legal term amicus curiae, which means “friend of the court.” And we consider ourselves just that. Our advising process is friendly and supportive; we demystify and destress law school application writing. And we are happy to advise you on your writing at any stage, whether you are conjuring your idea, wrestling words onto the page, or sculpting away your final draft’s superfluities.
The end result? A story that presents the best, truest picture of who you are and why you are essential to the top law schools in America.
We can’t wait to work with you.
Meet the Team
Katie Baca
Katie Baca, Ph.D., is an award-winning member of Harvard’s Writing Faculty. After graduating from Harvard College with highest honors in her major and her department’s prize for the best senior thesis, Katie received her M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard.
She has devoted her career to helping people compellingly communicate their stories and ideas. She prides herself on providing clear guidance that elevates law school applicant materials. Her familiarity with law school admissions stems from her years of service as an alumni interviewer for Harvard College, a grader for Harvard College’s writing exam (given to all first-year students), and a member of the Harvard Writing Program’s hiring committee.
In her free time, Katie does pottery, tries to train her rescue dog, and attends Barre3, where she finds herself mentally editing her instructors’ prompts.
Scott Bell
Scott is a practicing in-house attorney with a Boston-based hedge fund, where he is responsible for reviewing and improving marketing materials and otherwise acting as counselor and therapist to investment partners and, especially, paralegals applying to law school.
Scott received his law degree from Columbia, where he was a James Kent scholar, and a B.A. from New York University, where he graduated magna cum laude and was published in NYU’s writing textbook as “Editor’s Choice” for an essay about Japanese translation and the communication of ideas. Before beginning his therapeutic practice, Scott worked as a startup employee, management consultant, M&A and finance lawyer, and LSAT tutor, and now he mostly dreams about fencing, the Oxford comma, science fiction novels, and how to help talented people get into the best darn law schools around.
Scott’s clients have gone on to attend Columbia, NYU, UVA, and Berkeley, among other schools, and have received admission offers and scholarship awards at countless top-14 schools.