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dchoi092099

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General · Admissions Webinar + Editing Giveaway! Weds, Jun 27 @ 9 p.m. ET

dchoi092099

Thursday, Jun 28 2018

Thanks, David! This was really helpful and helped relieve some anxiety of the unknown.I found the section on the personal statements (looking for the delta) most helpful. As for the sections available on the admissions syllabus, I found (already listened to) "The What and Why of Personal Statements" helpful!

LSAT · ✏️ Official January 2019 LSAT Discussion Thread ✏️

dchoi092099

Sunday, Jan 27 2019

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Just to confirm, the comparative RC passage with privatization was experimental right? That one f$&*ed me up and I ended up guessing on half of the questions. This is the same section as the fungi and cacao trees.

Yes, this was the experimental.

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Sunday, Jan 27 2019

dchoi092099

Test Center Issue

Due to circumstances in the classroom we were taking (speaker in the classroom was on and for some reason only making noises when the test was in session), our exam was halted after section 1 and then again after section 2. We ended up moving to a new classroom before beginning section 3. I personally wasn't too bothered by the circumstance while solving the problems, but I do think the constant interruptions affected my concentration. The proctors said they noted the issue and would be reporting it to LSAC, specifically that the people taking the exam in the classroom were affected in section 1 and section 2 and that we ended up having to switch rooms. I surely don't wish this to happen upon anyone, but I was wondering if anyone had any idea what would happen next. For example, will LSAC follow-up? Will they leave some indication for admissions officers in the case that applicants choose not to cancel? I'm not cancelling - I can't, really, since this was my last exam and I'm applying in this cycle. So it was disappointing that my last LSAT ended up being in the worst standardized testing environment I have ever experienced but there's not much I can do about it. But I am still curious as to what, if anything will happen. Any thoughts?

General · May LSAT Flex Registration

dchoi092099

Thursday, Apr 23 2020

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(unofficially) it looks like it was moved:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LSAT/comments/g6o2n1/lsat_flex_date_sign_up_moved_again/

Thanks for updating us with this. This is so infuriating -- the least they can do is email us ahead of time. This would be the second time, if they are actually moving the date.

General · Help Parsing Double Negatives in sentence?

dchoi092099

Thursday, Apr 09 2020

Someone else may have a more elegant explanation, but I like to substitute variables into places for simplification. I would see your example sentence this way:

Two year olds do not naturally dislike A.

A = salty food so much that they would not choose it over some other food.

Yeah, I know "A" doesn't make sense. on its own. The point is more just to get the big picture idea of what the sentence is saying. The sentence is saying two-year-olds do not naturally dislike...something. (Or many things lol). For all we care, "A" could be broccoli.

So how do you negate that?

Two year olds do naturally dislike A.

Or more simply, Two year olds naturally dislike A.

So...why aren't both "do not" and "dislike" out? I think there's a technical, grammatical explanation, too, but first and foremost, the negation of dislike is not like. You can have no feelings about something.

Does that make sense?

Admissions · Do I need to send my masters degree or PhD transcripts to CAS or WES or OLSAS?

dchoi092099

Thursday, Apr 09 2020

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Thanks ... actually as I am an international student, WES or CAS asks to send my transcripts directly from my university. Now my university charges 50$/transcripts so that means undergrad 3 transcripts, masters 4 transcripts and PhD 1 transcript... that makes a total of 400 for WES (OLSAS) and another 400 for CAS. So just wanted to be sure that these will actually help in application or not.

I will never understand why schools think it's reasonable to charge by transcript and not by request. I have two master's from the same university and the university charged me about similar for each of my degree. Not quite as much as you paid in total but I feel your pain.

I don't know if it will help your application. But (and this is a strictly personal opinion) I think that it could hurt not to send it. Maybe your situation is different since you're in a Ph.D. program and probably have research products/papers on your resume, but when I was thinking about the same thing in my situation, I tried to imagine how an admissions officer can react. And I think my reaction upon seeing a grad school transcript (or five) would be, 'Oh look, they're here.' But when I don't see a transcript, my response would be 'What are they trying to hide?'

I don't know. Maybe I just have a terrible impression of law school admissions officers.

Admissions · Do I need to send my masters degree or PhD transcripts to CAS or WES or OLSAS?

dchoi092099

Thursday, Apr 09 2020

Why not? If anything, it gives insight into how you've spent the past ~5 (potentially more) years.