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VerdantZephyr
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I definitely think it is less about nobility and more about necessity. If I don't work I don't feed myself and my family. To be blunt, we definitely don't work full time and study until late at night 6 days a week because we want to look noble onl…
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Living in Japan, so same time zone. Pre-daylight savings it was 5 PM to 7 AM I think. January take was 6 PM to 8 AM I believe. It really sucks having to take the test at the end of the day, but LSAC clearly doesn't seem to give much of a care for…
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Good luck. You can do it.
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@lalalala I applied around the holidays. The first app went out a bit before the offices would have gone on break and my main targets went out around Christmas/New Years. I submitted a few in mid-January. I heard back from BU about a month after …
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Sorry, that should be 1850, but the point remains. We can't drive any statistically verifiable inferences about the percentage of high scores from the data we have.
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I think you missed my point that the ratio of high scores to applicants only gives you half the equation. Not everyone who takes the test and scores high applies. If 1,000 people in an average year (this is only an example number) score 175 and on…
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More high score applications does not mean more people getting a certain score on a given LSAT. Think of it like an LR problem you're trying to solve. What assumptions are you making? One assumption is that everyone that takes the LSAT and scores…
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I think the next cycle will be much less competitive. I have a friend from Korea who got a major scholarship to Texas with I think a 169 and a 3.7 or something last year, and I think a 171 and lower GPA is probably just as good typically. If next …
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Incredible job! Congrats!
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Agree with both @canihazJD and @CRISPR24 Very slow cycle and it is easier and faster to reject than to sort out which fantastic apps you will accept. I applied over the holidays and have only gotten one rejection back, which was from one of the las…
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I wasn't able to replicate on test day, I only hit 174, but BRing with other high scorers was how I raised my average on PTs to a 176. Going through and challenging each other's reasoning, picking apart the difficult questions, looking at every wor…
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@Constantine That is a crazy statistic. Slightly concerning as well.
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@karko2525 I have no idea. Being mid-30's I really didn't want to fill out the information, but called my parents up and after cajoling them did anyway. I think it is useful for certain scholarships. FAFSA specifically mentions professional progr…
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I'd say that 5 lines over is perfectly fine. 15-20 lines probably less so. I will add to avoid being over by a single line or two, it looks bad and may feel lazy at that point since you can probably tweak word choice and get it down to exactly two…
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I definitely second everyone's comments about looking at the other ways to improve your application. Making sure you have a good relationship with professors to write stellar letters of recommendation is absolutely going to be critical, and maybe t…
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@"David.Busis" Thanks for these. Many of them also have a common theme that reflects the times I think, something to keep in mind. Our readers, as is pointed out in the Sea Turtles essay, are also swayed by the currents of media, society, and pol…
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@"Ben Long" I think this comes down to when your test is and where you are now in relation to the score you want. If you are getting 16+ wrong each test that puts you in the low-mid 160's. I would caution anyone who is not in the mid 160's from sk…
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I feel like the judge is simultaneously rolling his eyes and sympathetic.
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Definitely retake, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't also aim to increase that GPA. A 170 is pretty average, so if you have any particular school in the T14 you want to go to you will definitely want to do what you can to stand out more than bein…
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@"hannah.daniel925" You are very welcome. Good luck on your journey!
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I think it's less about the money than the boost to rankings, as @canihazJD mentioned, but that doesn't mean it isn't rather predatory. I got a surprising letter from Colombia like that, but it was early cycle and after an LSAT score at their 75th.…
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The curve is changed for each test. If you listen to the power score podcasts they'll talk about whether the curve is -8 or 9 or 10. However, even if what you say is true, LSAC, as much as it sometimes seems otherwise, is run by very smart people …
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I knew that I would not be studying long enough to utilize all of them, so I can't say a lot about any plan that aims to, but because they are taking the Flex content from a wide range of past practice sections or simply rewording past PT sections c…
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Have you subscribed to the site? To access their testing resources besides the free diagnostic test that is available you will have to pay both LSAC through a law hub subscription and 7sage for either a monthly or yearly subscription to that conten…
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Sorry, that may have come off as snarky rather than joking.
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I will point out that it is not possible for a strictly curved test to have higher scores than another with an identical curve regardless of whether the test is longer or shorter with more variability or less. It doesn't even matter if it is easier…
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I think that really depends on where you are at score wise in your practice tests and also how much time you have. Timing wise they do have a -6% time option, which I think will help make sure that you get through things a little faster, and also e…
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@WouldRatherBeEating You definitely can bring it back up. I took half of October and all of November and December off completely before studying lightly for a few weeks for the January test. I still didn't hit my average of 176 on my score, but I…
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I think that's a good idea. I also think that one PT with a drop in LR or RC isn't too meaningful, but doing a little bit of each every day while trying to get to -0 in LG is a good idea