Hello everyone,

I took three classes for my Psychiatric Technician program (Psych Nursing) and each of them were 15 units each. My grades were C, C,and B (ouch). Any chance the LSAC won't count these? They were done at my community college but they did not count at all for my bachelors degree.

Hello all,

So, I've been talking to people about which law schools I'm thinking of applying to this fall. I mentioned Hofstra and New York law school because I live in NY. People were saying my chances of becoming an attorney and practicing law are very slim if I attend the tier 4 schools. I don't want to go into Big law and my ideal career goal is to be an assistant district attorney at a local DA's office. I'm thinking of these schools because with my stats, I feel that the scholarship would be pretty generous. Was anyone told the same thing? Does anyone know people who went to tier 4 law schools and had difficulty finding ADA or any small law firm positions? Thank you!

Okay, so I'm far from a respectable source of knowledge on Law School admissions, but I know many of you have applied (or are already in).

Is anyone else finding it drop-dead incredible how responsive and accepting law schools are being lately?

I know that admission is down by 16%, but to give you all an idea: I have a 3.1 GPA and a 157 on the February LSAT. I've been getting emails and having very, VERY promising correspondence from schools that I don't even meet the 25th percentile for. How is this possible? I even had a great talk with the Dean of Admissions at the University of Virginia, and they're ranked 7 or so.

Now, granted, I did start two businesses, have a lot of extracurricular activities and did a lot for my community, however they didn't know all of that when they sent me an email and asked me to apply free of charge, or in some cases even offered me scholarships.

All that they knew about me was that I had a 3.1, a 157, and am Puerto Rican.

My best guess is that they need Puerto Ricans for affirmative action or something,or that the 16% drop in admissions this year had a much bigger impact than I thought it would.

So I started studying for the LSAT in undergrad. I did so by practically living at my university’s library. After deciding to take some time off and retake the LSAT, it’s about time to start studying again. Since graduating in May, I moved to a big city and into a tiny studio apartment. The libraries close around 6 every night and I work from 9-5:30. Studying in my apartment just isn’t cutting it for me. I get very distracted. There’s a Starbucks a few miles down the road, but I don’t want to spend that much money on coffee. Help!! I need a good study spot! And maybe a study buddy!

Edited: 7/12/16, 2:31pm EST - Updated flowchart

Approximately a month ago I began studying for the December '16 test with with a 149 diagnostic score. After three practice tests, I'm up to 163. I'm still hoping to reach around 175 before the official test. I realized that during the fall semester I won't be able to study as much as I am over the summer, so I wanted to find some sort of map for questions I can look over to aid in practicing and refresh my memory in between any breaks from studying.

I was looking for a flowchart that mapped essentially everything on the LSAT and I couldn't find anything that had quite what I was seeking. I decided to make one on my own on draw.io and in an hour I came up with this...

Would anyone like to collaborate on a project like this?

Draw.io allows you to save the chart to your device in a .xml format, which we could share back and forth each time we make updates.

Please let me know if you're interested or if you have any feedback! I'd like the chart to be exhaustive as well as visually appealing, so any help I can get would be great.

So I’ve been making some bubbling mistakes where I’ll accidentallt bubble in the answers for one section into the wrong bubbling section on the answer sheet. I was thinking of just folding the answer sheet so that I can only view one bubbling section at a time. I don’t see that folding of the answer sheet is prohibited anywhere but does anyone know if that would be ok to do? Or would that perhaps depend on the proctor you get and whether they’re comfortable with letting you do that?

Hello all! How difficult do you all think it would be to increase an LSAT score from 162 (official score) to 166 or higher by the November test date? I know it’s only 4 points, but I really need it and am considering quitting my job to study full-time so that I can get it.

Hi everyone, in my haste to beat the clock during my diagnostic test, I failed to circle a lot of questions that I was unsure of so I could BR later. Would you recommend I BR the entire test?

Does anyone have printable pdf version of all games from 1-35 or more for foolproofing?

A bit tedious to extract just those pages to print.

Thank you

Hi,

I was wondering if you could buy more explanations to test. I have the practice tests already but wanted to buy the explanations if that is possible.

Thanks!

Hi everyone!

I took the September 2017 LSAT prepping with the Powerscore texts... I wish I had come across this site prior to purchasing those texts based on all the great reviews and after making use of the free content; the methods used and the explanations of the logic games seem like they may have more of an impact than just self-study with the Powerscore texts. I only prepped for 3 months with those texts and got a 144. I realize that 3 months of study was nowhere near enough time for me, so i'm just trying to come up with a new game plan.

My question is, if I were to purchase the starter course, what are your thoughts on if it would be enough content to solidify the strategies on tackling the sections? I have a lot of PrepTests already, as I purchased those separately on the recommendation of the powerscore self-study site. Money is kind of tight, as I am studying in Brazil and earning BRL which is worth less than half the USD, hence why I am looking at the starter course.

Also for anyone who has used powerscore or other study materials before coming across 7sage, what are your thoughts on content overlap?

Thanks guys, good luck in your studies. :)

Did anyone notice how many naysayers there are as you get closer to applying ... fascinating.

Small question, I mostly just dont want to get an infraction. When the Proctor says "turn the page, read the instructions, and start working now" can you turn the page as soon as he starts saying turn the page, or perhaps after he completes that instruction, or do you need to wait until he says now? it's probably only 5 or 10 seconds per section, but hey, 30 seconds overall could amount to an entire mark! When do I turn the page?

I know that the scholarships, the dream school, and the dream career should be motivation enough itself, and that routine studying should be just that, a routine, a habit. Still, I have off days. Sometimes it feels like the progress I'm making is too incremental, and others I am simply inexplicably unmotivated. Am I alone? What advice do you have?

To ground myself again, sometimes I take an hour or so to work on my essays to remind myself of the why of it all.

Hi everyone,

I’m so excited to welcome our newest editor, Boris Fishman. We think that the value proposition of any admissions consulting package lies largely in editorial feedback—after all, you apply to law school by sending things you wrote—and Boris is an absolute prodigy of narrative and language. He’s written two widely acclaimed novels with a memoir on the way, published essays in just about every journal of note I can name off the top of my head, and (for heaven’s sake) edited the U.S. Senate Report on Hurricane Katrina. His job application taught me how to do my job better.

I’ve pasted his full bio below.

Boris Fishman holds a BA in Slavic Literatures and Languages from Princeton University (summa cum laude) and an MFA in fiction from New York University. He is the author of the novels A Replacement Life, which was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the American Library Association’s Sophie Brody Medal, and Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo, which was also a New York TimesNotable Book of the Year. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the *New York Times Book Review, Travel & Leisure, *the London Review of Books, New York Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, and other publications. In an earlier life, he was on the editorial staff of The New Yorker; co-edited the U. S. Senate Report on Hurricane Katrina -- where he engaged with prose by lawyers for the first time -- and was the recipient of residencies and fellowships from the New York Foundation of the Arts and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, among others. HarperCollins will publish his next book, Savage Feast, a family memoir told through recipes, in 2019. He teaches in Princeton University’s Creative Writing Program and lives in New York City. Please see www.borisfishman.com for more information.

Hello all! Hope your studying is going well. Mine is a perpetual struggle filled with endless disappointment. In spite of that, I am determined to change that soon!

I recently took or "wrote" (Canada shoutout) PT 36 after a few months of CC. My score was a 155 and my BR was a 171. Additionally, I have not finished the ultimate plus CC. I am really striving to make my BR perfect and increase my actual score to a 165+.

I am missing at least 6 questions in my BR for LR type questions, however I am perfect on LG and -1 on RC. Clearly, I am not understanding the fundamentals of LR.

What worked for you? How I should approach this next portion of studying?

I was aiming to take the Nov 17 test, but I am not sure if that is viable at the moment. I took the test last December and scored a 156. I took up studying again this past March, but I have been working full-time until mid-July. I am worried that I am rushing through the CC and PTs in order to meet the Nov 17 deadline.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

7Sagers,

On Thursday, August 16, at 9 p.m. ET, I’ll host a webinar with Jay Austin, UCI Law’s assistant dean for admissions. I’ll begin by asking Dean Austin some general questions about admissions and financial aid, and then we’ll open it up to your questions. This is a great opportunity to get advice and learn from someone who’s making decisions at a top law school!

:warning: You’ll have to register for this webinar in advance.

→ Please register for the webinar (August 9, 2018 @ 9:00 p.m. ET) here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0NCX1ukkTLuZ9H_O6h8Vnw

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Zoom might prompt you to download something before you can join the webinar, so I’d advise you to show up a bit early on Thursday.

I hope to see you there!

Will it take 18 months to go through the ultimate plus curriculm

Can you guys share your tips for higher accuracy with BR?

I'm PTing in the low-mid 160's and am only seeing a 6-7 point increase on my BR. I really want to aim for 180 BR in order to see improvements with my actual scores. I spend anywhere from 1-3 days going over my PTs slowly but still do not see that much of a difference. I also admittedly input my PT answers to see how I did before beginning my BR, is this not advised?

Hi everyone!

I’ve been plateaued in the high 150’s for the past 5/6 PT’s. My goal is to get a 165 in November, but seeing myself plateau has been really discouraging.

I’m pretty solid on logic games, my RC can use some improvement, but what’s really been hurting me is LR. Specifically, flaw questions and level 5 difficulty questions, regardless of question type.

So my question is, what has helped you the most to break into the 160’s? What have you done to consistently stay there?

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you everyone in advance!

I didn't get to the test center on test day because everybody was telling me to take a 180.

https://www.reddit.com/r/lawschooladmissions/comments/99i84k/why_you_shouldnt_do_biglaw_or_go_to_t14/

Is this post only deterring me from going to law school? I'm a bit bummed and honestly thinking idk what i'm getting myself into pursuing T-14 in hopes of BL.

Just a thread for fun and some motivation. Any stories, hopefully positive, here of people pulling all nighters or spurts of no sleep in law school? I would imagine there are perhaps many interesting 1l stories? Just curious because I am graduating from undergrad in 3 months and haven’t got much sleep lately even during my break. I’ve just been reading lots of nonfiction for fun to increase my reading capacity. In retrospect, I thought I did a lot of reading in undergrad but now am beginning to realize I didn’t even know the half of it.

So I took PT 52 this past weekend and I knew during the time that I was taking it that things were not good I felt anxious, felt myself getting caught up on questions and instead of reading the stimulus first like I have always done I decided to try and read the question first. I was taking it in the room that I am actually going to be testing in to try and get myself in prime test day conditions but it didn't help that the lights kept going off. To say the least it was a mess. I was feeling really frazzled and stress so I took a break, the next day I did no studying and did my BR yesterday. I literally hadn't done about half of the LR questions so I went back and did those, no stress just tried to do my best. Reviewing over the RC and LG sections I couldn't understand why I hadn't completed them, I could have easily completed the LG section and done more on the RC section. With this being said I think my biggest enemy on this test is myself. After scoring the test My BR score was a 172 and I realized that I was putting the pressure on myself under timed conditions. So what I want to know is:where do I go from here ? Should I focus on drills? Doing timed individual sections ? Increase PTs per week to get my time up? I read in a similar discussions that warm ups help where can I find these?

Hello,

I havent bought 7sage yet. I was wondering about the computer requirements. Could you use a tablet or smartphone?