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I have all of my applications ready to submit. However, I wanted to give the LSAT one last shot, November will be my third time taking it. However, I was advised to submit my law apps mid October, notify the admissions boards that I am submitting my application but registered for the November LSAT and that my score will update with enough time for them to consider it before responding to my application. Is this an okay timeline or bad move?
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Hey, I'm responding with the same advice my undergrad pre-law advisor gave me. Now this may vary from school to school, but most schools do not even look at your application until it is complete. It doesn't give you a better chance nor is it a bad move per say, to submit your apps but hold your LSAT score. It is not like they will look at your application with your ready LSAT score than review it again when you submit your November. Of course, you can check with each schools' admissions' office to confirm this.
From what I have been told, if you submit your apps in October but have a test in November, your application is only going to be reviewed in November. Just as if you had submitted your applications November. Of course, you can tell them to review your application without waiting for November which could allow them to see your application earlier and still see your Nov score, but you run the risk of them making a decision on you before seeing your Nov score.
Submitting your apps early with a pending test score really only benefits the admissions committee where they can see how many applicants they have in a cycle. It doesn't really give you a leg up, or really a leg down (is that the opposite of leg up? idk)
You can totally just submit in October and allow the admissions' committee to review your app then and if they havent made a decision on you yet when Nov score releases they will definitely have access to it. But why make the application process more risky and elusive, yknow?
It is a lot to think about and assess. But just know November is still a reasonably okay time to submit applications! My advice (and ultimately what I am doing this cycle): keep studying and take LSAT week of Nov 4-8 and the days leading up to score release prep your applications (upload everything on LSAC) so that when scores are released its just a pushing some buttons!