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Friday, Jul 27 2018

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Character & Fitness Question

Hi Everyone,

Trying to get a head start on my application material and I'm sure this question has been asked to death but I can't find a specific instance covering my situation. Just wondering if the following situation should be something disclosed in an additional addendum:

When I was a freshman in college in 2008 I was in a dorm common room where some other students were drinking (I wasn't). An RA walked in and asked to see people's ID's. Because I was underage, I was written up and had to schedule a meeting with the RD. I explained the situation and received a formal warning that I believe was put into my file.

I reached out to my University to get more details on the incident since I don't remember much else about it and wanted to confirm my recollection - but was told that the incident is not even on my student conduct record anymore.

Is this something that generally should be disclosed in a C&F addendum? I was planning to, especially since some schools specifically include expunged events - but wanted to know people's thoughts.

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Sunday, Feb 25 2018

Exactly what Nessa is saying.

Attacking the premise means simply denying that it’s true. So if your premise was “a study of 20 people showed drinking coffee in the morning made them happy” denying the premise would be saying “the study did not show that drinking coffee in the morning made them happy”. It’s directly denying it.

Attacking the support between the premise and conclusion is introducing a reason that, given the premise still completely being true, doesn’t necessarily lead to the conclusion. So in the exmample that could be like attacking the sample size of the study, or showing that the 20 people are biased in some way.

So you’re still accepting that this study showed what it says it did, but you’re weakening the argument because you’re showing that maybe it isn’t reliable or that there’s a possible alternative explanation

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Wednesday, Jul 25 2018

Thank you everyone!

Hi Everyone,

I've been out of school for about 5 years now. I graduated with a BS + MS in Accounting and have completed the CPA examination. After college I worked for a large public accounting firm in a pretty selective practice group doing financial advisory for some of the largest investment banks in the world. I developed a great relationship with one of the Partners in that group and he will be one of my letter of recommendation writers.

I do know, however, that there is a preference many schools have for academic letters of recommendation. I've received two of those as well, one from a finance professor I TA'd for and another from my University's business school dean.

Originally my plan was to use all 3 letter of recommendation. However, I've noticed that some schools actually restrict you to just using two letters. So my question is, which two should I use? Is the preference for academic letters so great that it would be detrimental to use the letter from my professional recommender? I felt that given the experience I had the professional letter would help set me apart a bit. But now that for some applications I may have to choose just two letters I'm not sure if I should use the two academic or use the professional one with one academic?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated!

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Tuesday, Jul 24 2018

Does anyone remember the order of the RC passages? Keep seeing different orders from people recapping the test and it's making me nervous. I remember:

Two concepts on women's rights

2/3: Belize/Sports and art (can't remember which was second/third)

4: Complexity Theory

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Friday, Mar 23 2018

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'Only' is a necessary condition indicator on its own, so it would be redundant in this case.

This. The wording is also a little awkward in general, don't think I'd expect to see this in an LSAT stimulus. IDK maybe it's just me but it sounds odd.

In any case, it would translate to diamond -> expensive.

In English, basically, the only characteristic that diamonds possess is that they're expensive. So you know if you're a diamond, you must be expensive.

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Tuesday, Feb 20 2018

Thank you everyone! This has been very helpful

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Tuesday, Feb 20 2018

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Weekly PT's after the CC

Hi Everyone,

I'm working my way through the PT, and wanted to get some input on a question regarding doing 2 weekly PT's, as my schedule suggests.

I currently work full time, so the only realistic timeline I have for doing PT's is the weekend, during the middle of the week I'm too mentally drained to do a full PT.

Originally I thought I would just do a PT on Saturday, then a PT on Sunday - and BR both of them during the week. The value to that being, while there might not be much improvement from PT to PT on any given weekend at least I'll have more data on where I'm weakest and have enough time to work though a BR. The downside being I'm not sure how much time this will leave for additional drills on areas I'm weak in.

The other thought I had was to do one PT over a weekend, BR it the rest of the weekend/early in the week and then drill areas I'm weak on until the next weekend and repeat.

Has anyone been in a similar situation, would love to hear some feedback on which strategy would most likely be more effective.

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Thursday, Feb 15 2018

@ said:

@ said:

Apologies if this is a silly question. What is a splitter? Assuming it's a gap between LSAT score and GPA?

Yep it's basically an applicant whose GPA is at/below the school's 25th percentile and LSAT that's at/above the school's 75th percentile.

Got it, thanks!

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Thursday, Feb 15 2018

Apologies if this is a silly question. What is a splitter? Assuming it's a gap between LSAT score and GPA?

Congrats on Penn!

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Wednesday, Feb 14 2018

Thank you for all the responses guys.

I’ve decided not to cancel the score. I know I didn’t hit my target score of 170 but after cooling off and thinking about it a little bit I decided to just see where the score comes out at. I didn’t run into any major issues that would cause the score to be well below my average.

Maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised, but either way I’ll be taking the exam again in June or July!

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Wednesday, Feb 14 2018

Hey Hari,

I’m in a similar position to you. I’m almost 5 years out of school and have had 3 full time jobs since graduation as well as a host of extra curricular activities in school.

I haven’t applied for law school yet so I apologize if this goes against any law school specific resume advice but when I’m updating my resume and trying to keep it to just one page I typically alter it based on a priority system.

First, I make sure the most important position or experience that I’m emphasizing has the most detail (maybe your latest full time job, or a particular internship that is particularly relevant to law school)

Second, I will skin down on bullet points and details of a position that doesn’t have as much relevance to what I’m applying for - maybe limiting to just a bullent point or two. If it comes to it I’ve even deleted college activity that I felt wasn’t as strong as other experiences. Typically I prioritize my professional experience to my college activities and internships.

Lastly, and this is the most annoying, I play around with font sizes on headers and bullet points, page margins, etc. You can get away with a petty small font size on a resume to keep it to one page (I’ve gone as low as 9 and it’s been readable). Just make sure everything is consistent (I.e all your bullet points use the same size, etc.)

If after all of the above you still absolutely cannot get it down to a page - then I see nothing wrong with having some info spill onto a second page. Unless they are very specific about it being just one.

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Tuesday, Feb 13 2018

From my understanding, the entire section is either experimental or real - they don’t mix between sections. I had the same test order as you, but I don’t remember any questions on coral bleaching.

As far as what to do - I’m in the same boat. I plan on sitting for the June exam so I figured I would just start studying for that. Tried taking a few days off but couldn’t really relax knowing their is another exam coming up.

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Tuesday, Feb 13 2018

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Thoughts on Score Cancellation

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to quickly introduce myself. I just recently purchased the 7sage course after taking a 3 month LSAT prep course through another company and sitting for the Feb 18 LSAT. My practice test scores were all coming out between low to high 160's, but I definitely do not feel I performed that way on test day.

I tried doing my PT's under accurate test day conditions, but oh boy does the real thing still feel different. I definitely succumbed to test day anxiety and found myself rushed on certain sections and struggling on question types I'm normally pretty confident in.

Anyway, my question is what is the consensus on score cancellations? I see this course recommends longer study times before sitting for your first LSAT, and now that the two-year limit has been removed and LSAT sends your average score on all LSAT's as well as individual scores to schools - is it worth considering a cancellation if you feel you under performed where you should be?

Thanks, and looking forward to chatting with everyone!

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Wednesday, Mar 07 2018

@ said:

@ said:

There is a state of emergency in this area [near LSAC]. Big snow storm is supposedly coming so there’s a strong chance that they will be closed. I hope the employee in charge took the big red “Send Score” button home with them tonight.

Lol, I think there is roughly a 25 percent chance that LSAC's system is literally a single button. They take turns after each administration presiding over the button, and the hopes of thousands rest on the whims of Jeremiah the accountant this time. In December Stacy from HR got drunk and tweeted out that she was going to push the button early. The higher-ups deleted her tweet, but it was too late, they couldn't risk the karmic retribution of interfering with the sovereignty of that month's button pusher. And thus did we rejoice in the streets at the merciful whim of a mysterious organization, shrouded in the mist of archaic rote process.

This made me laugh out loud

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Friday, Mar 02 2018

I had a dream that scores got released and I got a better score than expected. Then in my dream I told myself "Oh man, I hope this isn't a dream." And then I woke up.

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