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SimonArmendariz
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I notice in the Admissions section of 7Sage, when calculating the chance of Admission/Waitlist/Rejection from Law Schools, there is an option to select URM. My preconception about Law School admissions in 2026 is that they aren't really allowed to use that as a factor for admission. I know that there is an exception for use in Essays/Personal Statements, is this what is factoring into the potential increased percentage of admission for certain schools when checking that box on 7Sage? If so, generally what does this look like; weaving the status of URM (whatever that may mean for the individual) into our application's writing portions? Is that what is signifying the admissions boost?

I was curious about this, if anybody has some insight that would be awesome! Thanks.

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Admissions · Is it so over for me?
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SimonArmendariz
Thursday, Feb 12

From what I know, Law Schools largely care about the Median in terms of your LSAT and GPA, so if you're below median for your GPA, to have a decent shot at a school, no matter your extracurriculars, you're going to want to shoot for above the median for that school's LSAT. If you're below the median for both, it'll be much harder to get into any school. But if you're over the median for at least one of those stats, then they have at least some incentive to admit you, because you won't be ruining both their GPA and LSAT medians, in fact you'll be boosting one of their stats. So it seems for McGeorge you'd wanna shoot for a 156+. Remember they care about which side of the median you fall on, it's median not mean.

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PT124.S3.Q16
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SimonArmendariz
Wednesday, Feb 11

@SlippinJimmy2026 Yeah what a strange question/answer. Like you, got it right, but still strange formatting.

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LSAT · when should I register for the LSAT?
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Edited Wednesday, Feb 11

Just my personal opinion, but if your goal is a 173+, "consistently" scoring would mean on a bad day you're scoring like 170/171 and on a good day you're scoring 174/175.

Like my goal score is 171/172. So until my worst PTs are consistently, over and over, 169/170 and my best are 174/175, I'm not gonna feel confident enough to take the test again.

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LSAT · New Tag Filter Functionality -- Select for Q-Type AND Stim Logic Type
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SimonArmendariz
Thursday, Feb 05

Wait.....this is goated.

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Lessons · You Try - Elaborate Screensavers
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SimonArmendariz
Thursday, Jan 29

@LaurenThomas Lol SAME! Totally makes sense though but never thought about it.

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Lessons · You Try - Vidmar's Private Collection
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SimonArmendariz
Thursday, Jan 29

I think Two main points that are really helping me:

  1. Don't Instinctually start mapping it out in LAWGIC unless it is a decently long chain of conditionals/causes/sets.

  2. Since you should ALWAYS be reading the Question Stem first, if it says the Stimulus is flawed, MAKE SURE YOU IDENTIFY THAT FLAW BEFORE GOING TO THE ANSWER CHOICES.

I am realizing a lot of my confusion before coming to these lessons was from just reading the ACs and trying to feel out a vibe for what SOUNDED similar, and then I'd get confused because there wasn't something specific I was looking for.

For this question, I saw the Question Stem and then my thought process went like this:

"Oh okay what's the flaw here...fuck I really hope I don't have to map this out I hate Lawgic...."

"Oh it's pretty simple, not many words thank God. Okay what's the flaw here....."

reads Stimulus

"Ah she's flawed because she could possibly afford one art piece or two, even if the value of the entire collection is super super out of her budget. So the flaw must be shes assuming the price/value of a part of a set can be determined by the value/price of the entire set"

That then led me to choose C. Because remember, she is determining the value of the Smaller Thing, only by knowing the value of the Bigger Thing. That was her flaw.

Hope this helps somebody! :)

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Lessons · [OPTIONAL] Lesson 3 - Endorsement by the Citizens League
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SimonArmendariz
Thursday, Jan 29

@Epicness "Any" in the stimulus basically means "If it happens again...".

If I die in this video game, I will.....

Any time in the future I die in this video game I will.....

Both just mean "If it happens, the following will happen"

While isolating the word makes it less obvious, in context, they basically mean the same thing.

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Lessons · You Try - Education and Political Economies
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SimonArmendariz
Thursday, Jan 29

A minute over the recommended time, but I got it right! Doing a shallow dip was really helpful to eliminate 2 of the answer choices for me, and I went a bit deeper and eliminated another. Then I had two left, started a deep dive on one, the logic lined up, chose it, and BOOM!

I know that even a few months ago, this type of question would have stumped me for 5+ minutes. Thanks JY!

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Lessons · You Try - Auto Mechanics
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SimonArmendariz
Thursday, Jan 29

Really great Explanation/video :). I usually just, attempt the question, then read the lesson and explanation/take notes but the explanation in the video here was super helpful! The Spectrum of shallow dipping is something I never thought about before, I used to just skim and then go straight into deep diving. Thanks!

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Lessons · Lesson 1 - Houses on River Street
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SimonArmendariz
Thursday, Jan 29

@dbarron77 LOL

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Lessons · Approach (Para or PF)
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SimonArmendariz
Thursday, Jan 29

Great tips. Never thought about searching for the conclusion first to make sure it is in the same structure/verbage (obviously with the caveat that it could be negated/the contrapositive).

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Lessons · Theory (Para or PF)
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SimonArmendariz
Thursday, Jan 29

Oh no. I've been dreading this since the beginning. Parallel Flawed Reasoning, my nemesis....... we meet again.

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PrepTests ·
PT135.S1.Q15
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SimonArmendariz
Thursday, Jan 29

@alexishkenyon@gmail.com Thank you. Great Explanation!

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Lessons · You Try - Building an Airport in Dalton
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SimonArmendariz
Thursday, Jan 29

Yesss 36 Seconds. Practice, practice, practice Sufficient and Neccesary until it infects your dreams guys! No shame in going back to those initial lessons :)

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Lessons · You Try - Acme Engines’ Locomotives
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SimonArmendariz
Edited Wednesday, Jan 28

@bbcream I believe it is just the approach to this question that you are taking that makes it a bit more complicated than it has to be. Ignore the strength, ignore the weaknesses, ignore the potential mistakes in the argument. Only evaluate the structure.

After reading through the Stimulus, and then evaluating the Structure of the argument, I can see that the statement given in the Question Stem, "Acme Engines spent $500,000 relocating switches...." is used as Support (Premise) for the Main Conclusion of the Stimulus (The following sentence which states "Thus, Acme should be held liable."). The former sentence gives support to the latter.

So since the conclusion is "Acme SHOULD be held liable"

...wait why? Acme claims earlier that they are "NOT liable..." wait why did they claim that...... "...because it never realized the switches were a safety hazard." Oh okay. So in order to prove liability by these standards, we would need to prove they DID know they were a safety hazard.

So if the conclusion says they SHOULD be held liable, it is likely to mean that the premise is giving support to the idea that they DID know. Because if they DID know, then they ARE liable (in this context. forget outside context when evaluating these questions).

so A states: "Proof that the engineer is not at all responsible..." wait, who was ever arguing the engineer was not AT ALL responsible? That was never a position taken by anybody. Just because one person is argued to be responsible, doesn't mean all responsibility is given up by every other party involved. The argument given by this Commentator could just mean that Acme Engines at least owes that engineer an apology and some flowers.

Idk this was my reasoning. Hope this helps!

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Lessons · Lesson 1 - Learning the Lessons of History
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SimonArmendariz
Edited Wednesday, Jan 28

@bbcream I understand it as: If something is being taken for granted, there isn't a given justification for it, it is just believed/taken/used as is. If I take for granted that it is raining outside, that is now a given, I wouldn't then prove it. C is incorrect because the argument of the stimulus is actively trying to prove that position wrong and is giving reasons why. It is not taking for granted the position is wrong, as it is substantiating that claim with more justification.

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Lessons · Theory and Approach (AP)
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SimonArmendariz
Wednesday, Jan 28

@ruth.olvera1027 These abbreviations are used throughout the entire curriculum. If you've gone through each of the lessons up to this point, I don't understand how you wouldn't know them by now. I understand not knowing AP but it's literally the title of the lesson.

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Lessons · You Try - Reducing Class Size
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SimonArmendariz
Tuesday, Jan 27

@TylerJBlanchard Yes I concur.

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Lessons · You Try - Reducing Class Size
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SimonArmendariz
Tuesday, Jan 27

YESSSSS. I read the stimulus, thought "Oh for this to be true, you couldn't recruit from other cities/regions" and then looked for that. BANG. No second Guessing, no doubt. 35 seconds to spare.

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Lessons · You Try - French Novelist Colette
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SimonArmendariz
Tuesday, Jan 27

Yesssss. I read "raises moral questions" and thought, huh well Raising a question and being Indifferent to those questions can both be true, so the argument would have to somehow say that Raising the Question means you cant be indifferent. B states that. Lets goooooooo.

My personal tip: Don't commit to an answer until it actually feels correct. This is practice, take as long as you need until you start to get it.

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Lessons · Theory - Part 2 (NA)
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SimonArmendariz
Tuesday, Jan 27

@ZachistheLawyerinCharge Ah. I mean that's true that that is a reasonable assumption, but those conditions were never put together like that in the previous lesson's example.

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Lessons · Theory - Part 2 (NA)
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SimonArmendariz
Tuesday, Jan 27

@ZachistheLawyerinCharge You misunderstand. He is saying winning 5 MVPS isn't necessary for being one the best players of all time. You could have 4, 3, 2, 10 MVP awards. Who cares if its 5. Who cares if its any. It's not necessary.

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Lessons · You Try - Pin-Tipped and Bladed Etching Tools
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SimonArmendariz
Tuesday, Jan 27

I have realized that for myself, unless the conditional logic appears in like a super long paragraph where I start getting lost, I do much better if I disregard formatting it into Lawgic. Just reading it like a word problem.

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Lessons · You Try - Rational Consumer Behavior
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SimonArmendariz
Monday, Jan 26

YEsssssss. It's so nice to understand the structure of these questions types, because then prediction makes these scarily easy once I got it down. I deadass skimmed the ACs and landed on E because that was exactly what I was looking for. 44 seconds to spare. Thank you JY I love you

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