By cancelling, you're really not risking them thinking "man she got a 140". They have no basis to guess what score you made, so they don't play that game. All they see is a cancelled score. They can't venture into what it would have been. The only time that I've seen cancellations be viewed negatively is when you have like 4 of them in a row before your sent score, and even though that isn't the end of the world, the dean of UVA law admissions said something to this effect. "you don't get chances to retake exams in law school so the fact that you had to retake the LSAT a bunch of times to get your desired score isn't so great." HOWEVER, your score is still your score, so like I said, that isn't the end of the world.

Continuing with the UVA dean of admissions, she also said that she doesn't care if you've taken the test three times, so you're fine on that front.

You might be thinking, rightfully so, that schools just take the top score so that doesn't matter. You'd be right, they do take the top score, but the "it doesn't matter" thing comes more into play when you have a 174 and a 171. 170 to 167 is a much bigger difference than that, even though it's the same math.

you really shouldn't worry about what they will assume with a cancel, because they can't and won't assume anything.

@gatesmadi665 said:

@aarijrahman728 said:

Cancel and write the addendum addressing that cancellation

@gatesmadi665 said:

@aarijrahman728 said:

I would cancel. Excuse my bluntness, but it's better to have some think you had a lower score and not know, versus have them see that you got a 167. Score band isn't really important, 167-170 makes a drastic difference at the top. You're 170 is good, it's hard to attribute any rationale of thought to the adm. committees as far as how they will see your cancellation because there are so many possibilities. They would probably assume it is lower than a 170, but by how much, they really can't say. If you truly did have ProctorU issues, like virtually every human who takes the test now. A simple one line in the addendum of your app would be fine. "Reviewers of my application may notice a cancellation on my recent LSAT history. During the (insert month here) test, technical issues with the proctoring software took some time out of my test and resulted in a score that doesn't represent my abilities".

Writing the addendum is a sketchier decision that to cancel, I would do more school specific research, but the deans of both HLS and YLS said that they want to know if technical issues affected your test because that is obviously unrelated to your abilities. If your research tells you that you might should write an addendum about it, keep it brief, to the point, explanatory, and don't turn it into an excuse-fest.

Thanks for the advice! So if I do an addendum, should I cancel or keep it?

The only thing I'm wondering is if you think cancelling w/ addendum is better than keeping w/ addendum because the way I see it, a 167 with proctor issues seems better than risking them assuming I got a 140 or something with proctor issues. Perhaps it shows I was on track to breaking the 170 if not for proctor issues? Just thought I would get your two cents on this before I cancel, since I have basically a split reaction no matter where I post asking for help.

P.S. I'm thinking of seeing decisions roll in and then signing up for the April LSAT to try and get off waitlists if needed.

Cancel and write the addendum addressing that cancellation

@gatesmadi665 said:

@aarijrahman728 said:

I would cancel. Excuse my bluntness, but it's better to have some think you had a lower score and not know, versus have them see that you got a 167. Score band isn't really important, 167-170 makes a drastic difference at the top. You're 170 is good, it's hard to attribute any rationale of thought to the adm. committees as far as how they will see your cancellation because there are so many possibilities. They would probably assume it is lower than a 170, but by how much, they really can't say. If you truly did have ProctorU issues, like virtually every human who takes the test now. A simple one line in the addendum of your app would be fine. "Reviewers of my application may notice a cancellation on my recent LSAT history. During the (insert month here) test, technical issues with the proctoring software took some time out of my test and resulted in a score that doesn't represent my abilities".

Writing the addendum is a sketchier decision that to cancel, I would do more school specific research, but the deans of both HLS and YLS said that they want to know if technical issues affected your test because that is obviously unrelated to your abilities. If your research tells you that you might should write an addendum about it, keep it brief, to the point, explanatory, and don't turn it into an excuse-fest.

Thanks for the advice! So if I do an addendum, should I cancel or keep it?

Fire yo!! congrats

No. Deans of HLS and YLS are on record saying they don't want an addendum for this. You clearly studied more or didn't have a previous obstruction. Either way, admissions committees don't want addenda for this!

congrats!!

congrats!!

I would cancel. Excuse my bluntness, but it's better to have some think you had a lower score and not know, versus have them see that you got a 167. Score band isn't really important, 167-170 makes a drastic difference at the top. You're 170 is good, it's hard to attribute any rationale of thought to the adm. committees as far as how they will see your cancellation because there are so many possibilities. They would probably assume it is lower than a 170, but by how much, they really can't say. If you truly did have ProctorU issues, like virtually every human who takes the test now. A simple one line in the addendum of your app would be fine. "Reviewers of my application may notice a cancellation on my recent LSAT history. During the (insert month here) test, technical issues with the proctoring software took some time out of my test and resulted in a score that doesn't represent my abilities".

Writing the addendum is a sketchier decision that to cancel, I would do more school specific research, but the deans of both HLS and YLS said that they want to know if technical issues affected your test because that is obviously unrelated to your abilities. If your research tells you that you might should write an addendum about it, keep it brief, to the point, explanatory, and don't turn it into an excuse-fest.

@yossiloriner811 said:

Congrats! Just got my mark back this morning and I got a 176! So happy for you!

Congrats!!

I had RC with stable banks, literati, and i forget the other two. Only one section, felt like a walk in the park

@sydmcrae06807 said:

Congrats on 176! Did you have a tutor through 7sage?

No, mine was actually someone I found on Reddit, but I've heard some good things about the tutors at 7sage

I agree, this is the same thing that I thought of. So while I was not gung ho to click C, and I didn't at all actually, C is the most supported out of the rest. POE for this question for those of us thinking like us, notably different from a MBT where C would not be the correct answer.

Would Love to join!