Thank you everyone!

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

@acsimon699 said:

'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.

@tylerdschreur10199 said:

@xjewelrussell129 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

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.

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

Thank you everyone! This has been very helpful

@uhinberg359 said:

@52467 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!

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

Congrats on Penn!

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!

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.

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.