Hello!

I am seeking a bit of advice regarding what I should do this fall in my law school journey. I am 2 years post-grad and was initially planning when I graduated to be attending law school this coming fall (obviously did not happen). I have been working a full time job since I graduated (about 55 hours/week) and have been studying consistently for about 10 months about 10-12 hours per week. My diagnostic score was a 153. I first tried using Mike Kim's book the LSAT trainer and that did not work well for me. I also took a full Kaplan course and got my score up to a 159-160. I have big goals for law school and ultimately would like to go to a T14 school as it has the specific program I'm interested in pursuing (a combined JD+MS). I graduated with a 3.95 GPA, had a ton of extracurriculars, a great story for my personal statement, and overall feel like I'm a very strong candidate. The one thing that feels like a roadblock has been my LSAT score. I am feeling very defeated as my LSAT score has not improved relative to the time that I feel like I have been studying. I also took the June LSAT (my first official LSAT) and received a 157 which felt incredibly disappointing.

Standardized testing has always been difficult for me and right now it feels like it will be impossible to achieve my goal score of a 174. I am going to take the September LSAT and was planning to apply this fall by October 1st. I am now trying 7sage after my advisor from college suggested I give it a shot and have been sticking to my tailored study plan.

I am wondering if it is even worth it to apply this fall if I can't get my score in the 170s. I have mixed feelings as I really wanted to apply this fall but I also don't want to force it if I am capable of eventually getting a better score. Any advice on next steps and if I should continue delaying my application process would be much appreciated. It just feels difficult to have to wait yet another year out from when I wanted to start attending. I'm trying really hard not to give up, but this has been very difficult for me.

Also open to hearing more about what helped people increase their scores the most. I did a lot of drilling when I had the Kaplan plan but not as many full length practice tests. I also have watched a ton of videos on the fundamentals and for 7sage fast track videos, I've pretty consistently gotten all the answers correct before Kevin walks through them.