caseyconradbee401
Hi everyone. One theme I've noticed in JY's videos, is that he'll identify a bunch of not both or either or rules, and then chose one to put on the chart. LSAT 36/Sec4/Game1 is an example. He puts the either or, but not the not both rule on the chart. How do we know when/which to put on? Thanks!
Hi everyone! I'm in the process of deciding what schools to apply to, and what area of Law I hope to practice.
I'm interested in Social Justice, Human Rights, and Aboriginal law, and want to start seeing what kind of jobs are out there, with what kind of pay scale. Anyone have any good sites that will help me find some information? Google just sends me to a lot of sites that are dump-all for all kinds of law jobs (clerks, secretaries) as well as no way to filter out types of law I'm not interested in.
Thanks!
@ On some preptests the questions say not available for scoring.. When do they do this? Maybe they'll do it for one of the questions on the computer virus LG..?
We can hope....but I doubt it. Those are for questions that were successfully challenged...usually, I think, because of two possible right answers....
@ Virus Game = 5 or 6 questions? I thought it was only 19-23.
Five. Man that question sucks the bag. (the virus question, not yours!)
@ Experimental RC:
1. Folk Psychology,
2. Physicists and Operationalism, and
3. Trademark Law and Locke's theory
Meanwhile, I crushed this section, 100% I would guess. Damn, why do they put experimental questions in?!?!
Hi everyone. I'm sure something like this gets posted from time to time, but I want to get the current group's opinion.
I've been out of academia for 13 years, running my own business. My Academic life is long behind me, and the three people I could think of that might write me letters would not remember me in a clear, detailed way.
I have the potential to ask a high-profile politician (who was once mayor of the city that one of the schools I'm applying to is in, and is now in upper level government) who was a regular customer at my restaurant, but he neither knows me academically, or more than a 15 minute chat once a week. I should also point out that he could be viewed as controversial. I don't know if he would say yes or not, but my suspicion is that he would.
I also have a professor in the law department at UofT who was a joint law and philosophy prof, and he taught me in two courses. When he came into my restaurant, he greeted me by name, and introduced me to his guests as one of his former students, but I suspect he saw my name when googling the restaurant.
Two grad students that I did well in both went on to teach, one an associate professor at a community college in Texas, and one at the University of California, San Diego. Again, it's been so long.
Another regular customer is a law professor at Western.
I don't know what would be stronger: old academic references that might be vague and weak (but might not) or non-academic references from strong people that do know me well, but not in 'that' way.
I should mention that I need 3 letters for one of my school choices....
Any advice?
Hi David.
1. I'm a 38 year old restaurant owner in Toronto. After completing my undergrad in Philosophy at UofT I travelled, and, with very little money opened a successful upscale bistro and ran it for 8 years. I've decided to leave the business to help people, primarily low income Canadians, and so I want to go to law school to gain the tools I'll need.
2. My biggest worry is my undergrad marks 2.95cgpa, 3.25 in the last 8 courses (on a 4.0 scale). Plus my LSAT, scored 155 on my first real LSAT, but am now testing between 160-166.
3. a) Play up my restaurant ownership and the fact that I ran a very successful business for 8 years as a way to show that I'm capable of hard work and success and b) Talk about the fact that I want to go to law school for more than just personal gain, but to benefit the community and people around me.
4. Didn't Attend last time.
Thanks for your time!
Casey
Thanks everyone! I'll take your advice. Like I said, i was not expecting to ace the LG section, but on the reading comp. I was averaging only 1-3 questions wrong, and 2-5 wrong for the LR sections, so this was a bit of a blow--and that was with being timed! Back on the horse!
Hi everyone. I took the June LSAT, and got a lower score than on any of my practice tests. I was sick leading up to the test, and probably should have canceled, but I was still stunned on getting a lower score than even on my first practice test ever. I was getting just under my target score up to the test date.
My worst section by far was LG, but even where I normally do very well, I was getting only 65% of the questions right.
I want to know if I should re-do sections of the course, or if I should just focus on taking prep tests....
Thanks!
The thing that kills me is that experimental was a RC in section one. That is my dream, to have an RC in section one, when I'm fresh. Then I find out it was all a cruel lie.