I agree with @ Your LSAT is not disqualifying, and your GPA will help. That being said, this game is cruel and you are below the median. You are likely a competitive applicant, making it absolutely worth applying, but you will be on the fence. That's just how it be.

I agree with the advice above and offer one other perspective. Even if you do better than the 155 you are aiming for, you are running thin on time. Assuming the score comes in November, if your app is not complete by Mid-December, you will be putting yourself at a disadvantage because scholarships and acceptances will already be going out at many schools. If your app is complete and you are waiting for the score, you could consider it, but this is not the type of thing you rush.

I also agree with advice above that a 155 will be tough for significant scholarships, and it would likely be worth the years wait if you could improve that score.

The question above is good. Also if you are in the mid-140s (started in mid 130s and raised ten points) I would stay away from PTing for now. In that range, you are still working on the fundamentals across all sections. That is totally fine. You have heaps of time, but don't go blowing through all the PTs before you are ready to get the full benefit out of them.

You should approach 7sage by methodically working through the Core Curriculum a few hours a day five to six days a week. The CC will get your base understanding up. Hopefully that will push you closer to the point where you will be ready to PT

What are you doing for BR? Are you blind reviewing? Is the BR score increasing?

I second @ The consulting team was super helpful in my process. Feel free to DM for details.

Do not take a practice test everyday. You will run out of PTs and not put the effort into reviewing which is where the learning comes from. Your BR score is at its highest, that means the learning is working. You need at least 5 more PTs before you really know what is up with your abilities to get a better gauge of your new level. If your BR is improving, you are on the right track. The timed result is the last thing that comes together. It is very frustrating, I know, to trust the process, but keep putting that emphasis into the BR process even if it takes several hours.

I underloaded my 2nd semester senior year. I have never heard of that being a problem, and it was not a problem for me. @ I believe is right. Did you meet graduation requirements? Did you get a good overall GPA? If yes to both, proceed to party.

I took an LSAT class in 2018. The instructor told a story of another instructor who took the LSAT for giggles in case they wanted to go to law school in the future. They wrote erotic vampire fan fiction for their writing sample. Upon actually applying, a school asked them about it. They said they were teaching LSAT prep and retook the test. School said ok, cool. The school just wants to make sure that the person who took the exam was also the person who wrote the personal statement. Instructor got in; it was fine.

Don't retake your writing. It will not make a difference.

Here at U of I now. With a 3.9 and 163 you would probably get a substantial scholarship from any school from 50 down. To increase your odds of a T-14, it shows you how brutal the competition is that you will need a 167+ to have a good chance of acceptance, let alone full scholarship. If you can get to 165, you will really be looking at scholarships at places like Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin. That would be pretty dope.

If you wait another cycle, that also gives you time to get every single point you can out of the LSAT which will open up your full range of possibilities. I also agree that if your goal is financial aid, if you don't have an official score now, next cycle would be better.

https://www.lawschooldata.org

Register at this site for some user reported data. It could help give a clearer picture of the question you are asking.

To the above posts point, there is a sweet spot in admissions. I got waitlisted at 1 T-20 school and denied from all others I applied. Also, I got massive scholarships at several T-25s and below. Will it be harder to go to big law anywhere in the country for me? Probably. Can I now graduate with less than 20k in debt? Yes. So, just because you can't make it to the T14 doesn't mean you don't get to be a lawyer. Unless you want to work for The Supreme Court, don't let your placement stop you.

Starting law school at 25 is perfectly fine. You will be around the median at many top schools. You are ok.

It is still super early in the process. It is likely most schools have not even begun opening apps yet. You're still good. Don't stress too much.

Depends on where you are applying. If it is to T14 schools and schools that have hard February cutoffs, you are cutting it close, so sooner is better than later. If it is to schools that have rolling admissions and acceptances until August, sooner is still better, but two weeks won't harm you. I don't know how much work will be done between Christmas and New Years at admissions offices. That being said, people have been applying since September, we are reaching the point in the cycle where acceptances and scholarship have already gone out. That is not to say that you will not receive $$$ by applying in January, but we are reaching the point where the pool of resources is being tapped. Thus, if you are competitive where you are applying, it should be ok but be swift. Make sure everything else is perfect so when the LOR comes in you are ready to go.

The predictor tool is an estimate. Don't hinge your application on that. Shoot the shot.

What you are referring to are sometimes called "softs" where as your grades and LSAT would be your "hard stats." Softs are things like your resume, accolades, letters of recommendation etc. How much do they matter? They matter more if you don't have them. If you have no letters of rec and zero experience, that is bad. Softs are less important than your grades and LSAT. Having a dope GPA and very high score will make your softs pretty much irrelevant.

https://www.reddit.com/r/lawschooladmissions/comments/660o4h/classifying_softs_and_clarifying_what_is_and_is/

Here is a long reddit post that will give way more info, but in short, it depends and the admissions committee's job is to evaluate your softs. Having dope grades and LSAT will mostly overcome softs unless they are truly brutal.

Like @ I did Blueprint. I did 7sage CC a tad too quickly, finished it, then did Blueprint. Blueprint did nothing for my LG, was useful for more LR and RC strategies, but I don't know if it was worth the 1000 dollars for it after having done CC. Blueprint is not bad though.

I was in the same boat. I could get games perfect individually or in BR. Once I did them, I had the tricks memorized, but I struggled on new games. It took me about six to seven months of dedicated study to have the BR and memorization kick in to where I got my first -0 and was averaging below -2. Keep up the BR, keep learning the tricks and nuances (for me it was either but not both rules). LG is closest you can get on the LSAT to brute force. If you keep reviewing and reviewing and reviewing, hopefully, the skills will imprint.

Coming to you from a T30 school in the midwest with a scholarship that will allow me to graduate debt free. I cannot state strongly enough how freeing it is to not have to worry about debt hanging over me and the need to succeed hanging over me everyday. The biggest advantages of T14, as I understand it, is the big law placement and higher ratio of federal clerkships. If those two things are not your priority, then the gap narrows substantially. If this acceptance comes from a region you want to be and their employment placement is high in that area, you are in a great position. Are your options a little bit more narrow as opposed to a T14? Probably, yeah. Is it worth 150k to 200k and the knowledge that you have to plan your life around paying of those loans? Up to you. People online who are T14 or die are annoying. I was where you are about a year ago. You have a great option in front of you.

Hello. 7sage alum here. Scored a 157 on March 2019 and a 165 on July 2019. So I was where you are and I got to where you are trying to go (even if on the low end). First, good job on being where you are. To get to 160 means you have figured out what is going on the LSAT. The bad news is, you are just about out of shortcuts. While you are right, the CC in its entirety might be a touch redundant, analyze your analytics. What are you getting wrong? Why? What is your BR score? Is it improving? Why or why not?

Once you have studied the analytics, if you can discern a few areas to strengthen, maybe do those sections in the CC. For LG, every question you get wrong, do the entire game five times again like JY recommends. Memorize it. While you will never get that exact question again, the patterns do repeat. If you can memorize or become comfortable with almost all the LG tricks and traps, that is how you get to the -0/-1. I can offer no RC advice. That is why the 165 was not higher.

If it fits your financial constraints, consider a few hours of quality tutoring. You don't need the classes at this point, you have surpassed that. However, if you aren't sure how to figure out your own weaknesses like I mentioned above, they will. Getting on the path to success starting today with no wasted or misplaced effort will save you valuable time. Also, if they can get you 2 points higher for less than 1000$ (4-8 hours or more depending on cost of tutor), they will pay for themselves many times over in outcomes you will earn.

Good luck. Be kind to yourself.

I don't believe your academic career has been interrupted. I think they mean, "have you ever been in school and had to stop school for an extended period." I do not think completing your undergraduate degree then waiting for a graduate degree is what they are referring to.

On 7sage they charge by the hour for general consulting. There are also packages that you can buy for set prices. I don't know how other entities charge.

Eight months. I got to -4/-5.

-2/-3 in real terms means you are getting every question right except the PF and one other question (or maybe you get the Parallel Flaw problem but miss two others). To get to this point, that would imply that you have sufficient time to either grapple with every question but two. Basically, there can be no luck. It is mastery and efficiency.

@ has a good point. You want to get to the point where you are breezing through easy questions. You aren't just getting them right, you are getting them right so quick that you have time to grapple with the rest.

For context, a 24 point improvement is possible in the sense that I am sure that somebody has done it. However, it would be an extraordinary effort. @ has an approach that will likely be more successful.

Is your LSAT and GPA above the 50 percentile median? If so, you will probably get in.

Is your LSAT and GPA below the 50 percentile median? If so, it will be hard to get admitted directly and you are more likely to get waitlisted if not denied.

Is either one of your LSAT or GPA above the 50 percentile median but the other is not? Then you are a splitter and you will likely be competitive but exact odds are hard to state.

Hope that helps.

https://classic.7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/21627/our-free-logic-game-videos/p1

This link is to when JY said 7Sage was taking down its free LG video explanations more than a year ago. Included in that link is a graph of 7Sagers results from all three sections to show the most common score that 7sagers average on their analytics. -3/-4 is not bad at all. It would be above average for 7Sagers (and therefore likely better than the average LSAT taker).

LG tends to be the most learnable for many, but not all, LSAT studiers. You are taking the test this month and shouldn't freak out about not doing well. You are doing well. If you keep studying beyond this month, it is within your grasp to get it to -0/-1. Congrats on your hard work.