I've weaved my disability into my personal statement pretty well, but I just wanted to know if I should write a diversity statement as well. I'm not sure what I could discuss that isn't already included in my PS.
What's going to give me the best chance of standing out and getting extra funding? Thanks!
Looking for some feedback on my personal statement.
I'm also willing to trade statements if you would like me to review yours. I'm a former journalist, so I have some nice writing experience and good eye for typos.
DM if you're interested.
I'm curious if anyone has researched schools with Technology programs. The program at USC is what I'm most interested in. It's a mix of Media, Entertainment and Technology with a focus on Intellectual Property.
I'd really like to focus on Technology though. Also, can anyone comment on schools with good networks of graduates in Silicon Valley or Silicon Beach? Thanks.
Don't mention politics at all in personal statements. Delete all mentions of politics, social justice and anything culture war-related from social media. Actually just delete all your social media. You never know who you're dealing with.
Don't attach yourself self-worth to your scores. If you do horrible on the LSAT, just find another well-paying career that you think you'd be good at. I'm about to start more coding classes as soon as I finish the December test in case something happens and I end up with a lower paying job than I expected. I'm probably going to test out a creative endeavor as well.
Hopefully everything works out. Many times it doesn't. Hope for the best. Prepare for the worst, and if you fail, do not take it out on yourself. View it as a lesson and incorporate whatever knowledge you gained about yourself or why you failed into your future endeavors.
Failure sucks, but giving up on everything makes life much much worse. Put everything you have into this. If you have a bad day, get up and go at it even harder the next day.
Taking days and weeks off for breaks will not help. I generally take a day off after a PT or on the Lord's day, but that's about it, and it's worked out well. Good luck!
Thought it was strange that no one reached out to confirm my accommodations for Saturday like they usually do. So I reached out to the supervisor here in Louisville, and someone in her office notified me that I am scheduled to take the test next weekend (23rd) instead of this weekend, even though my ticket said the 16th.
This seemed strange, since when I took the test last December, there was not a separate date for accommodated testing. But after speaking with the administrator directly, I found out that they had to reschedule at the last minute because there were not enough proctors. Just a few minutes after we spoke, I received an email from LSAC containing the updated information.
From the LSAC Accommodations page: "Additionally, your test may be scheduled for an alternative, later date."
This is just a reminder to everyone with accommodations that you should confirm the details for your test with the administrator. There may be some last minute changes that you aren't aware of. They had apparently lost my contact info, which is one of the reasons I wasn't informed until this morning. But she also mentioned that this happened with another person, so I hope whomever that is gets the message as well.
Not a fan of Nicole's strategy in general, but I do use a couple of her tips. I just circle keywords and underline majorly important statements like definitions of terms as I go. Aside from that, I just bracket main points of the paragraphs and the main conclusion of the passage if it's quite clear.
After reading, I'll sometimes tag the functions of each paragraph and then regardless, I say to myself, What was the passage trying to achieve? What was the argument or main idea? And how did the paragraphs function (helpful for organization questions) to serve that purpose? When I have time, I'll occasionally write that out briefly in the blank at the bottom of the page.
Reading for 30 min. to an hour every morning has really helped. Just read anything. I was a huge reader before the test, then as soon as I stopped reading to focus all my time on the LSAT, my RC score dropped like crazy. Went back to reading and my scores immediately went back up.
Blew through Jon Ronson's "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" and now I'm reading Hunter Thompson's "The Proud Highway," both of which I'd recommend.
The Night Of from HBO is a good one if you haven't seen it.
So how should I space out these last three PTs? I'm thinking it might be wise to take 2-3 days in between so I can drill and focus on weaknesses, but I'm also curious about when I should take my last PT before the test date.
Do you all have any suggestions for a solid schedule for the remaining two weeks?
How concerned should I be about BRing around this time as well? Should I just take a hard look at the questions I missed and didn't quite understand so I can save time for drilling? A complete BR usually takes a couple days for me and I feel like I won't have much time for drills.
Thanks. You all have been a big help.
How about the week before the week of the test? I was thinking about taking 2 PTs this week and then another before the test date. I feel like combining that with BR and drilling will be exhausting though.
I've thought about this recently and my conclusion is that the LSAC fee waivers might play a role in how applications are approached.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
@7sagestudentservices Thanks. Amazing no one tackled this one.
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Hi I was just hoping someone could help me sort out the conditional logic in this stimulus. I feel like there's a gap in my understanding of the first sentence of the stimulus.
The first statement is about archaic spellings being preserved if they are infrequent and do not interfere with reading comprehension. I think the negation of preserved is modernized.
F: frequent
I: interfere
M: modernize
I originally diagrammed this statement as:
/F & /I -> /M
M -> F or I
The correct diagram is:
/M->/F & /I
F or I -> M
What is the difference I'm missing here?
https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-51-section-3-question-19/
Yeah. 7 months ago is definitely enough time I would imagine. I'd drill some of those and PT a couple before you get to the 70s. Just pick the most unfamiliar ones. I think this would be really helpful.
I'm about where you're at since I bought and wasted most of the 60s before I was able to acquire every PT. So now that I've spent some significant time away, I'm working my way back up to those and they're still pretty challenging.
@nathanieljschwartz435 said:
Thanks for the advice. I was just scanning the 60s and i noticed i dont remember practically any of them. Do you think i should just order another set of 60s and PT with those. Or should i stick with the 40s which i never touched. And drill the 60s?
No worries. I don't know about going that far. I'm drilling in the late 40s/early 50s right now and moving up to PTs in the mid to late 50s.
Did you PT any of the 60s already? If so, you should probably still drill them if you've had enough time away from them, which it seems like you already have. I'm just trying to drill sections that are within a reasonable time frame compared with the test I'm taking.
Yes. Drill the newer ones that you have left until you run out, if you even do run out. People always say to drill older sections (1-35) while PT'ing but I think that's horrible advice, since you're not doing the same types of questions that occur in the new tests. With the exception of drilling certain types, I really do not advise drilling early sections before doing a newer PT.
Source: I took it in December too and I started PT'ing again about a month ago. The 1-35 drills wrecked my scores when I was drilling 50s and 60s.
@avetyans588
I definitely recommend checking out the When To Skip webinar. I found it highly useful when I was trying to improve timing. Another big one was confidence drills, which is basically just blowing through a section as fast as you can and quickly moving on from questions you're nearly certain you've gotten right.
Aside from that, I try to drill two RCs and two LR sections every week, alternating and not finishing my entire LR BRs, so I have some questions to do before I take another LR drill.
Good luck!
@aaronwfrank90 said:
Is there a list of all the NA questions from every test that I can find somewhere?
I believe all of the content is written specifically for the LSAT. I remember reading that in the LSAT Trainer.
Wrong.
They cite the sources at the end of each test. I caught a David Carr article from the NY Times in there once, which was a bit surprising. Other than that I think most of these come from academic journals from law, economics, and social sciences (the hardest sciences lol, see the passage on cultural imperialism for a good laugh).
Everyone learns a bit differently on this thing. I didn't follow the exact instructions for fool-proofing and I'm following a pattern more similar to yours, which is working very well. When you have some time away from the questions, forcing yourself to make inferences that you've forgotten helps quite a bit.
I never take a day off on LG, even if I do nothing else that day. So the beginning of my daily schedule is redoing the logic game set from the day before, and then doing a new one. If I have absolutely no idea what's going on in one of the questions on the new one, I'll take a look at the video explanation to get a better idea. Then I'll redo the game the next day and try to recall any insight I gained from the video. If I'm still not comfortable with it or not finishing under time with all questions right, with the exception of an occasional mishap, I'll keep doing it everyday after that until I'm comfortable with it.
You'll get there. It takes time to get good with LG. Inevitably, I feel like you end up combining the strategies from CC with your own insights that you've developed along the way.
Good luck!
I'd advise teaching this strategy in the curriculum.
And here's where I learned not to diagram statements with conditional AND frequency indicators.
Thanks for your help. I think it clicked but tell me if this sounds accurate. The logical opposite of routine (most) is sometimes. And the logical opposite of sometimes is never.
So the conclusion would be valid if they used sometimes instead of routine as the sufficient. Is that right?
Oh yeah. My name is part of a Zach Galifianakis joke from 15 years ago. Kind of an inside joke with old friends. He still uses it all the time.
is it important to consider how a low score might hurt your LSAT average? i know most schools take the top score, but the average seems to be important as well. only reason i ask is because this was my third time taking the test, and i'm relatively certain i did worse than on my second pass, which ended up being10 points higher than my first. i'm somewhat comfortable with that score now.