Hey all you cool cats and kittens

Hey. First of all, I feel your pain. I was hospitalized for psychosis and missed a semester. Second, I would say that you should write a few personal statements and feel out if you are comfortable talking about your hospitalization. On my initial drafts, I danced around my hospitalization and focused on telling other stories. Over time, however, I realized that it was a story that needed to be told sincerely. I did not go into post hospitalization diagnostics. Instead, I focused on my general struggle to re-acclimate myself while simultaneously living on serious medications. Like you said, I wrote how that makes me a unique applicant. I even wrote about it for 2 schools' diversity/optional statements as they and 7sage indicated they were open to all kinds of diversity. There is a great 7sage article with 5 or so top-tier personal statements that helped splitters gain admission to T-14s, and they all have the common thread of honesty. Most importantly, tell your story. Missing a year of school and learning to take care of your mental health is a damn good story to tell.

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Hey. I took the July LSAT Flex, but I don't have a link available to do the writing. I have been on hold with LSAC to no avail, and I sent LSATwriting an email. Anyone else having this problem?

Thanks

Update: It took about a week and a half to hear back via email. The email provided nothing helpful, so I called today. I was on hold for ~20 minutes, but eventually everything was resolved.

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I also submitted my transcript and I have called my university twice to be sure that it was submitted. I am still waiting. Do you recommend also calling LSAC to check on it?

It has taken about 3 weeks for my two transcripts to be processed on LSAC's end.

Same. I have been trying for the last 50 min. Has anyone gotten through?

4 months is definitely enough time to get a 12 point jump if you are efficient with your time. In two months, my score has increased 10 points from diagnostic to 5 recent average and 14 points from diagnostic to best. As long as you devote significant time and are mentally present, you can see big gains. Good luck!

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Hi does anyone know if having bookmarks during the exam will be an issue? I use Google Chrome and have like 10 bookmarks on the top of my browser for me to click on for easy access to stuff. But will the proctor ask me to disable it?

Nah, you'll be fine.

In real time this is a banger of a question. The explanation being 13:28 is enough to show its difficulty. I chose A in the test.

In my review, I slowly eliminated the apparently wrong answer choices until I found myself weighing C and E. It took a minute or two until I understood C in full, and I decided it had to be correct. Assumptions are definitely made, but they fall into place nicely, as JY shows when describing C. "Which is more likely?" is how JY relates it. Vibe on guys and gals.

Thomas Sowell is the 🐐

I read answer choice D as the correct answer because the ending argument of the passage is that an "impartial jury must be composed of informed citizens" which today necessarily "includes exposure to mass media." Thus, in keeping with the passage's argument, jurors ought to be selected based on their degree of exposure to mass media. JY didn't discuss this AC in detail, and I see the merits of B, but D seemed to be more directly in line with the argument that jurors ought to be exposed to the media. #help