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hi yall, i'm having trouble on what/if to write the diversity statement for each school. they phrase them as "Describe any experiences in your life or unique qualities you think would benefit X School of Law and/or your classmates." i feel like i don't have a "diverse" aspect given that i've lived a pretty normal life, but i have plenty of interesting experiences from work to share. my only hesitation is that i don't want it to sound like a personal statement.
does anyone have any advice here?
they tell you the time you leave, and there's usually a clock on the wall in the waiting room so just aim for a 6 min break just in case. that's plenty of time IMO to have a snack and use the restroom. just remember that you will have to "check in" and get scanned again before going back in the room, so account for that.
yes to lip balm! they just ask you to open it up. water must be unopened, and they give you paper and pen
there are dividers and noise cancelling headphones which are UBER helpful.
you'll kill it. dw.
@Kevin_Lin This is super helpful (and super kind), thank you Kevin! I've been hoping for a more dramatic increase in my score, although the LSAT isn't really the place for that LOL. I'll take your advice set out in the above, and with some hard work I think that I can keep working upward :)
a week is not enough time to declare it a plateau!! give yourself a little grace and props for moving into the 160s, and just keep on keeping on. you got this! this test is also not an intelligence thing (IMO). I'm an awful test taker, so i'm struggling as well. if it doesn't come naturally to you, then it's more of a persistence test.
@Kevin_Lin THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! The rest of your AMA answers were really helpful/insightful, so I really appreciate you taking the time to answer mine!
I think I need a new study technique or something, because whatever I'm doing now is not working. For context, I started seriously studying in August of last year, but my job makes it hard to stay consistent. My study schedule typically consists of two hours of studying a day (one before work and one during my lunch) and then PTs on the weekends. I got a 162 on my Aug LSAT, but I KNOW I can do better.
I consistently PT in the lower 160s and BR in the low 170s. My biggest deficits are phenom-hypoth, flaw/descriptive weakening, and causal reasoning for sure, but my WAJ doesn't seem to be helping. Whenever I get it wrong I hand-write why I chose my answer, why i didn't choose the right answer, why the right answer is right, and what I'm going to do next time. I've now started an excel tracking sheet to see what logical misstep I'm taking to see if I can spot a pattern, but sometimes when I watch the explanation I can only understand the question by content, and not logic. Countless videos have explained that I should be adhering to a strict logical step-by-step, but I'm having a really hard time doing the same process consistently across each question. They all look different to me and so I get flustered when I can't figure it out using the "methods."
I tried tutoring and didn't see much movement. Now I'm looking for anything that can help. Some facts that may help you diagnose me: (1) I'm typically down to two answers, and pick the wrong one (2) I felt confident about my last couple PTs, and ended up scoring low 160s, so my confidence in the wrong answer is actually the scary part (3) even after the explanation sometimes I genuinely think an answer could theoretically work (in, for ex, a weakening or strengthening Q), which I think is rather problematic, because obviously it cannot work at all.
I've brought myself back to the basics recently (argument structure, grammar, conditional chains, etc.) to try and re-build my foundations, but I'm feeling like I need to re-enter this study period in a different way. I've done a few of the tougher phenom, flaw, and CR problems that I've gotten incorrect in the past, and still make the exact same mistakes, so clearly there is a problem there. Maybe I need to be thinking about these types of questions entirely differently, I don't know (probably). Do you have any ideas on how I can do this? I'm not sure if there's a pattern specific to the categories of questions I mentioned above which may explain my difficulties, but I would appreciate any tips at all.
Again, thank you for taking the time to read and help me out here. I really appreciate it!!!!!!
@kevin any chance you have time for one more question? i missed the AMA by 10 min :/ I'd post in the other thread except that its about the LSAT not applications
Quick q - should we put the amount of time per week worked at each job? The struggle I'm having is that I worked about 17 hours at this job during the summer, and then kept the job during the school year and only worked about 3-5 hours a week. That being said, there's no non-awkward way to write that out.
Any advice?
what were some of the best resources you used on here that changed your score?
i'd love to know the answers this as well, so tag me back here when someone responds lol
@emmaningjiuan280 agreed on your video analysis. "so what" is not an explanation lol. I think that explaining why the answer choice might be attractive to some, then explaining how that line of reasoning is misguided would be way more helpful then blanket statements like "it's just wrong," "its unhelpful for the argument," or "this doesn't do anything." Clearly, some people thought it did.
#feedback
This is a long shot, but does anyone know any resources to have someone look at my personal statement for edits? I don't have $1,499 to spend lol, so let me know if yall have found anything cheaper (or even better, free!).
Appreciate yalls help.
If anyone else is looking for a great comprehensive LR review before tomorrow's test, I highly recommend looking here! https://7sage.com/lessons/logical-reasoning/introduction-to-logical-reasoning/logical-reasoning-cheat-sheet
I've been running through these drills and it's been very helpful. I am #scared of tmwr but its fine, we're all going to be fine :)
@Kevin_Lin I did see your video and it was very helpful, thank you! This was more a comment for JYs video. I've noticed this trend across the board with JY's videos (I love you JY don't get me wrong), and unfortunately you (Kevin) don't have a vid on each question to give further detail. Sometimes I just can't see why an AC is wrong, and after going through all the discussion comments it's still not clear. I struggle with SA/NA and do some mental gymnastics to make an AC work sometimes, so it's helpful to have the logic broken down in real time.
I'm sorry but there is no chance in hell this is a level three passage am I just losing it or something
Hi! I'm beginning to ask people for LOR for this upcoming cycle. I'm aiming to have 3 LOR (4 if you advise that's best). Who do law schools want to see as LOR? As of now, I'm planning to have one from my professor (graduated college last year, so that's still relatively fresh), one from the managing attorney at the law firm I worked at last summer, and one from my current boss (who is a senior paralegal at my law firm). Do you recommend I swap one of the professional LOR for an academic one? Or branch out from that completely?
I'll take any experience y'all have with this. Thank you!!!!
this is a TERRIBLE answer choice. nowhere in the passage was there an indication that this was the primary focus of circulum. it specificalluy says "a vital aspect of the practice of law" and "Much of legal education, with its focus on judicial decisions and analysis of cases." we've learned time and time again that it has to explicitly say something is the primary reason/thing, or else its just one thing, or even a big thing, but not exactly the MAIN thing. how is this different????
IMO the testing center is really comfortable, so that is a stress that's taken off. noise cancelling headphones, and nice temp. the week of im ngl i don't study. i feel like it burns me out, so i just stop studying. i take the week to exercise and enjoy myself (and sleep)