Sophia Sim

For almost three decades, Dean Sim has worked at three institutions and served in the leadership of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) and the Law School Admission Council (LSAC). She was a board member for LSAC’s Board of Trustees, past-Chair of the AALS Section on Prelaw Education and Admission to Law School, and past Co-Chair of the Featured Speakers Committee for a quadrennial conference of the Prelaw Advisors National Council (PLANC) Conference. In addition to overseeing Admissions and Financial Aid, Dean Sim teaches Introduction to 1L and is a member of the University’s Diversity Task Force and Data Governance.

Currently, she sits on the LSAC Audit Committee, and, during the pandemic, was a member of the LSAC Assessment Committee, which oversaw test development and psychometric activities for the Digital LSAT and LSAT Flex. Dean Sim has served on LSAC’s four standing committees—Audit, Finance and Legal, Services and Programs, and Test, Development, and Research. During her time on the Services and Programs committee, she was co-chair of the global admissions workgroup. Aside from presenting at various LSAC conferences and forums, she was the keynote speaker for the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Section on Prelegal Education and Admission to Law School and has served as a panelist for the Northeast Association of Pre-Law Advisors (NAPLA), the Midwest Association of Pre-Law Advisors (MAPLA), and the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association’s (NAPABA) Pre-Law Conferences.

Dean Sim began her career in academic administration as the director of residency classification at the University of Maryland, College Park, and was an advisor for the Judicial Honor Council. Prior to her position at GW Law, Dean Sim worked at Georgetown University Law Center as director of admissions for fourteen years and was appointed to a variety of university and law school committees including data warehousing, diversity task force, future law professors, information technology, joint-degree programs, technology users, and web redesign.