You should definitely wait until next cycle. Writing your essays in a hurry and asking professors for LORs last minute is never a good idea. You have great numbers so if you start working on your application now I'm sure you'll have great chances of getting into top law schools! Best of luck!
Thank you @!
Wow...you seem like you really know what you're getting yourself into and are prepared for it! I'm so jealous haha thank you so much for your recommendations and advice. I appreciate it so much! @
So I just got into my top choice for law school! I quit my job in December and have been relaxing/fooling around since. But I'm starting to get bored and feel unprepared for law school. I have all this time (Feb-August) before everything starts up again this fall and would sincerely appreciate any advice on how I could be utilizing my time wisely!
Thank you in advance!
Does Yale 250 essay have to have exactly 250 words? Can it be less than 250? (for example, can it be 210 words? or should I fill it up at least to 245 words if I can't make it exactly 250?)
Thank you in advance for your responses!
@ @ Thank you both!! I was freaking out about schools averaging that I was planning on canceling my score. But I don't think I will anymore
@ @ @ Thank you for your words of advice and encouragement. I appreciate it so much :')
Are there any law schools that take the average of your LSAT scores?
@ I'm usually pretty on point in terms of guessing my score after the test but yeah I understand your point! Two cancelations do look pretty bad huh :( I guess I'll just have to hope that I didn't score below a 160 because if so I would have to write an addendum explaining why...tears
Thank you so much for your response though! I really appreciate it :)
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**Seeing the results of the poll, I get that most people are recommending me to keep my score. Could someone explain why keeping the score is better than canceling for the second time? :o
But thank you all for participating in the poll! :')
Hi folks,
I'm basically in a mid-life crisis, panic zone here. Your help would be so greatly appreciated...
So, I just took the Nov 2018 LSAT. I think I did ok on the LR and RC but I really messed up on one of the games. The other three I had no problem with. But for one specific game about months (March-Nov), I could not understand what the first rule was saying. I was struggling to understand for about 8 minutes and ran out of time. Ultimately, I had to guess on four questions (I couldn't even make an educated guess sadly).
This is my fourth time taking the test. I canceled my last test which was on Sept so I only have two scores. My second score was a 165. Considering that I missed all four of those questions plus -6 on LRs and -6 or -7 on the RC, I would probably receive around a 165 or even lower on this test.
Do you think I should cancel this test (meaning this would be my SECOND CANCELATION which law schools hate) or do you think I should take the chance of just seeing how this score turns out? (even if that means getting a score that is below a 165).
Does any school take the average of your scores?
I heard that Yale does and I was considering whether or not I should cancel my score...I would greatly appreciate your help/thoughts!
To provide more context, I took the Sept test today and I feel like I got around a 162-165. I've consistently been PTing in that range too. I'm hoping to raise my score to a 170+ by December and will take the Dec test. I have a 3.97 GPA and go to a pretty competitive university. If I'm aiming for T14, do you think it's better for me to cancel and take the Dec one instead?
@ Thank you for your warm advice and congratulations on your 5 point increase! That's amazing!
It'd be a lie if I say that I'm not anxious (because I feel like 1.5 months is a short amount of time), I know that its about how effectively. This time I want to make sure I get the fundamentals DOWN and tackle the PTs I took again before taking the fresh ones.
Thank you all for your advice!
@ Appreciate you and your advice so much. Thank you!!
@ Thank you for your advice! I have around 8 fresh tests (but 5 of them are below PT 50 so they're pretty old tests..) I plan on going through the CC first and then re-taking the recent PTs and taking the 8 fresh tests when it gets closer to the Dec test...
If you don't mind sharing, could I ask what your study schedule looks like? I used to study 6-8 hours a day but would get burnt out really fast...but if I don't study like that I feel anxious. How did you find the balance?
I took my first LSAT this September and just got my score back. I now have to study for the December one but I'm lost in where to start. I took almost all of the PTs from 36-80 but haven't finished the Core Curriculum. So I plan on finishing the CC but I'm not sure if I should be taking a PT every week from now on (but I took most of the PTs so I feel like my score will severely inflated) or...
I would sincerely appreciate your advice on how you all studied or plan to study for your second time around!
I'll definitely be working on the essays on my rest day from now on like y'all have suggested.
@ @ @ @ Thank you all so much for your advice!! I really appreciate it
@ I chose that answer choice as well!
@ wait so did you have two 25 question lr and one 26 question lr??
@ BLESS YOUR SOUL. You just saved me from a hell load of stress. Thank you!!
I had LR, RC, LR, LR, LG.
My first two LRs had 26 questions each and my last LR had 25. I'm assuming that one of my first two LRs had an experimental.
In S1 LR, I had a question about Freud? I'm not sure if I'm spelling it right...
In S3 LR, I had a question about the economist talking about small and medium businesses.
Does anyone remember any one of these questions and if so, can identify which one is the EXP section? T.T (3(/p)
Thank you all so much!! I can't believe how willing y'all are to help others out
I'm studying for the Sept test right now (will be my first test) but I want to apply this cycle. I know I should be working on my personal statement and my diversity statement but I'm really bad at multi-tasking and I worry that writing while studying at the same time might distract me from fully concentrating on the test.
Would it be too late to start on the personal statement and the diversity statement immediately after I take the Sept LSAT? Would the admissions course on 7sage help me with this?
Thank you so much for your response Claire! Reading "unless" as "if not" makes so much sense to me!
But then does that mean that writing A unless B as ~A~ ---> B wrong to use in this situation? Because "if not" is basically ~B~ --> A (but this is the same thing as ~A~ ---> B because they are contrapositives of each other).
To describe my confusion further, if I were to apply the ~A~ ---> B to (c), I would get ~Ft and Mt~ --> Kt. If I were to do the contrapositive of this, wouldn't it be ~Kt~ --> Ft or Mt ?
But the answer says it comes out to ~Kt~ --> Ft and Mt. Why is that?
I'm still slightly confused over this question :/
Hello 7sagers,
I've been trying to make sense of this question for the longest time but I just can't seem to understand what the difference between answer choice (c) and (e) is.
Here's my train of thought.
We all know from the core curriculum that A unless B is
~A~ ---> B
OR
~B~ --> A
Given this, (c) states "Unless K is assigned to T, both F and M must be assigned to T."
(e) states, "Unless either H or M is assigned to T, K must be assigned to T."
So to put (c) into lawgic and if I put it in ~A~ --> B form, it reads, ~Ft and Mt~ --> Kt. If I were to do the contrapositive, it reads, ~Kt~ --> Ft or Mt.
Is this contrapositive right? The answer says that it's supposed to be contraposed back into ~Kt~ --> Ft and Mt but I seriously cannot understand why that would become an "and" statement...
But if I were to put it in the ~B~ --> A form, it reads, ~Kt~ --> Ft and Mt (which is the correct answer). I'm really confused as to why these two are coming out differently when it shouldn't be...
Please help! I feel like I'm not understanding the most basic concept of lawgic and it's truly giving me so much anxiety.
Admin note: edited title
https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-74-section-2-game-4
I've been reading some posts and some people are saying that they're recording themselves taking PTs. How does that work? I know this may sound like a silly question but do you just record your face or your hands? (if hands, what kind of device do you need to do that?)
Thank you all so much in advance. I'm always so appreciative of all of your comments and advice!
@ My goodness, I expected but didn't realize that networking, tailoring resume to what law firms are looking for, and drafting up a cover letter would be something a 1L should be doing. I will google the heck out of this and get started on them. Thank you so much for your advice! I appreciate it :)
@ What device do you use to record yourself? How does this recording thing work? (as in do you record yourself taking a full PT and replay the recording to see which questions you are spending a lot of time on?)
Also just wanted to add that I'm new to 7sage and it is so incredible to see this community supporting one another :')
@ I only read the first few pages of the article and I'm already finding it so interesting. Thank you for sharing!
@ Noodley YES! That's a great idea!
@ Thank you again :)
@ Dang! Her reading list is amazing...thank you so much for sharing with me! :blush: