"Take the courses you think you're going to learn the most from," she said. Curll also recommended a balance course load--reading courses for science majors, and scientific courses for humanities majors.
"We see enough applications from Harvard to have a good sense of [the difficulty of a schedule]' Curll said.
Although LSAT scores are important, Curll and Rakoff both urged students away from preparation courses.
Students can order numerous old tests to use for practice from the LSAT application book which is available free at OCS.
Curll said admissions officers spend more time looking at the non-quantifiable aspects of an application, which she classified as character, commitment and context, than on the numbers.
"We are looking for people who are going to bring something special to the class," Curll said