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Jonathan Wang
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In addition to the obvious logistical issues (they can't even find enough proctors who don't royally screw up a set of pretty simple instructions, so forget about finding people who can actually evaluate a candidate), fear of public speaking would l…
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Those pesky 'standards' getting in the way of revenue numbers again.
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Same guideline - 2 or 3 points in either direction. One question is one point in that range, so you may think there's more volatility there, but at the 97th percentile you're just expected to perform consistently and not screw up basic stuff. If you…
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Irrelevant pencil knowledge: Lead types are graded the way they are by 'hardness' - so, a #2 pencil is harder than a #1, but softer than a #3. Standardized testing companies all specify #2 because they're worried about the mechanics of a scantron. #…
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Two answers: 1. Probably won't hurt you much in the aggregate. Most schools have a policy of only considering your highest score, so if you assume adcoms adhere to stated policy they just won't use a lower score. It'll hurt you for the very few sch…
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If only you could force everyone who criticizes your decision to take the test for themselves. Even just one section would probably shut most of them up pretty quick. And the ones who won't shut up are either so smart that you could probably learn s…
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I'd always hedge unless there is a VERY good reason that you NEED to ace the first test (as in, you're going to be deported if you don't). I wouldn't go 36-65, though; I'd stagger the latest 15-20 tests or so, so you have exposure to the 70s before …
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To some extent, you will always 'overthink' things because your nervousness will tend to make you conjure up wild speculation in an attempt to make sure you've covered all of your bases. If you think you have a good imagination now, I promise you th…
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You're learning the 'how' without learning the 'why'. Don't just learn games by saying "if I see X, do Y" - because that's how you end up in the situation you're in. Learn them by asking yourself WHY characteristic X should make you want to do thing…
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On topic, the way school programs usually work is that they lend you money to pay off your federal loans, and then they forgive what they've lent you. Some schools forgive that amount on a yearly basis (Harvard), and some only forgive the loan after…
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I was personally far too pessimistic, which I find to be the norm. I thought I bombed but actually scored a bit better than my previous best. I also think the pessimism tends to increase as score increases, because high scorers are more aware of all…
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There is no magic advice. The mechanic of SA doesn't change from question to question. That means you're either (1) not understanding the words on the page, or (2) getting psyched out by test conditions. If you're getting them in practice, odds are …
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Disagree with the above. It seems to me that knowing how to do something and knowing when to utilize that knowledge are two entirely separate questions. If you really know how a sentence works, you should know whether it's conditional and, if so, ho…
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Two thumbs way up! Congratulations! Now go forth and kill it.
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Be careful of conditions on scholarships too. If it requires you to stay in the top 25% of your class or something, don't make the mistake of assuming it's a given. You're going to school with 250 of your academic clones, so it really takes some hub…
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If there were a pattern, people would be using it to check their answers even if they didn't guess. Just pick and pray. The entire point of a guess is that you're not spending time on it and just accepting the blind 20% chance. If you're spending …
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Chiming in with another option - I personally bubbled at the end of every spread of 2 pages in LR, after every passage, and after every game. With today's formatting, that can just be simplified to "after every spread of 2 pages". Rationale - I fo…
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G -> /W means you can leave both G and W out, together. G /W fixes that.
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Manhattan residents no longer have that CFA problem! 37th and 6th is my new favorite intersection
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@GordonBombay said: How would one go about screening ALL of a school's graduates and then figure out how many became successful? You probably can't, but that doesn't mean that doing it backward is any more valid as a result. It's also almost cert…
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I think those are all reasons to go to law school in Houston or Texas generally, not specifically to go to South Texas. If nothing else, University of Houston is right there. That's like going to New York Law School because it's in the market you wa…
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@"Nilesh S" If I remember right, Nathan says on his site that the reason he went to Hastings was because it was the only school within biking distance of his home in the Mission, so probably not the best example. It's also unlikely that someone wi…
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"All of the lawyers I've met who went to this school are doing just fine" is completely meaningless. You're looking at a successful lawyer first, and then seeing where they went to school after the fact, when you SHOULD be screening for all of that …
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It's literally impossible for a school to not accept outside their 25-75s, because by definition 25% of the people they admit fall below their 25th percentile mark, the same way that 25% of the people they admit come above the 75th percentile mark. …
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But is it actually more likely? He got 12/14 on questions he attempted (and got jobbed on his 20% - 1 out of the remaining 13, where his EV is 2.6), and again assuming by the tenor of his post, that doesn't seem like it's a decrease. His post also s…
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I don't get the blanket animosity toward the RC advice. It's important to distinguish short-term score maximization advice from long-term skills improvement advice. Finding low hanging fruit is the former, and the do-2-passages-perfectly advice is d…
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They'll just assume you're a reasonably well-off white candidate if you don't specify. In your shoes, it probably doesn't hurt you. If you're really worried, get that LSAT score up and leave no doubt. No adcom is going to affirmative action a dude s…
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Single results are worthless unless they're consistent. If your games performance stays at or close to that level across multiple tests moving forward then great, enjoy your stay on breakthrough island. If it doesn't, then you've already described i…
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@markariangeorge I agree with a lot of what you say. More PTs should be free, and materials surrounding the fundamentals should be cheaply accessible (hence my continued support of 7Sage). People who create supplemental materials or who have experti…
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As for the inherently discriminatory system that the LSAT is rooted in - yes, 100%, no question. But that's already being corrected for with URMs getting a substantial break on their LSAT requirements and an automatic (and usually significant) 'soft…