McNeal allocated much of her time in the classroom leading up to her first year playing soccer at Maryland. She was an English major but was still determining the direction she would take after college.
“I didn’t plan on going to law school. People would ask, ‘What are you going to do with an English degree?’ McNeal said. “And I guess a lot of people teach or whatever. But I really don’t think I wanted to teach. So I actually didn’t decide until the last minute.”
As a senior, McNeal became a teaching assistant, and the teacher convinced her to attend law school.
“That one professor is the one who talked me into going into law school,” McNeal said. “He helped me to aim higher. I was like, I’ll just be a paralegal and he says, ‘Why do you want to be a paralegal? Why not be an attorney? Why settle for that?'”
All law school applicants must take the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), but McNeal missed the testing dates and had to pay extra money to have it administered to her. She then reached out to a fellow student who was a teaching assistant with her for help.
“I believe she had gotten a perfect score on the LSAT,” McNeal said. “So before I took the test, she allowed me to come over and stay with her for a couple of days, and just day and night, we ate, we studied, we slept for a little bit, we studied, and I kind of crammed for it all in a few days.”
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