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Friday, Mar 31 2017

kacantolina79

June LSAT to for wait list guidance

Hey all!

First, I'd like to thank 7sage for everything it's offered! It's been so invaluable to me. I got into a lot of schools with scholarships I can be pretty happy with.

There's only one thing; I was wait listed at my dream school (Cornell) and I'd really like to make that happen. I've been thinking about taking the June LSAT since I heard the idea, especially since I took the February one and panicked under pressure and ended up with a lot lower of a score than I had been scoring on PTs.

But how does taking the June LSAT work for wait lists? Do you have to let the school know you're going to take the LSAT and notify them when the score comes in? Should you ask the school if they'd even review a June LSAT first? And my biggest worry--if a school somehow sees on your application that you're going to take a June LSAT, do you think they'd deliberately postpone letting you off the waitlist if they might have done it sooner? I'd hate to unnecessarily prolong this process.

Anyway, regardless of what happens with Cornell, I'll be really happy to be attending Emory in the fall with a BIG scholarship that I'm pretty excited about!

Thanks so much for all your help!

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kacantolina79
Thursday, Dec 15 2016

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said, you request one transcript, and the LSAC will provide that transcript to whichever schools you are apply to.

2) If I'm not mistaken, the "hold transcript" option is for those who are still in school and have no received their final set of grades. In other words, "hold my transcript until my school inputs all of my grades from my final semester/quarter" - double check this, as I could be wrong.

Aaahhh, okay, that makes way more sense! Thank you so much! I'll check with the registrar as well.

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kacantolina79
Thursday, Dec 15 2016

Thank you so much! That helps a lot!

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Saturday, Jan 14 2017

Thank you so much! I think I must have been misunderstanding what part of the argument constituted a presupposition. I could clearly see that West's logic was flawed because it didn't take into account the percentage that Haynes was inspecting, but I couldn't find an answer that matched, "didn't take into account the percentage that Haynes was inspecting" and didn't feel like any of the answers were clear analogs to that. But I now see how making the leap from "50% of returned goods were inspected by Haynes" to "Haynes is the worst" is the presupposition to which the answer refers.

I will definitely look at the 7sage package...it's seeming like it would be extremely helpful!

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Wednesday, Dec 14 2016

kacantolina79

Transcript Requests

Incredibly dense questions here--but I cannot seem to make heads or tails of the labyrinthine transcript request process. Or maybe it isn't that difficult?

I bought the Credential Assembly service, downloaded a TRF for my university from the LSAC site, as well as a transcript request form from my own school and I'm about to mail both of them to my undergraduate.

2 things I'm a little unclear about: do I request just 1 copy, or as many copies as schools I will be applying to?

I'm also seeing a box on my school's transcript request form that says "Hold transcript until" and then several options below--I have no clue what this means! I assume I wouldn't want them to hold the transcript at all?

Sorry to come to the forums for this, but I really don't want to get this wrong, considering how long the process takes for it all!

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kacantolina79
Wednesday, Dec 14 2016

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so you think it was just focusing on weaker areas that you were struggling in that really helped push you over a couple of points? This is helpful advice thank you!

Absolutely! I think there are some sections I might not even get around to studying, because I don't miss many questions in them. Now that I've improved my logic games significantly, my weakest area is actually logical reasoning, so I'll start studying mostly those sections as well and see if I can see greater improvement there.

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kacantolina79
Wednesday, Dec 14 2016

@ What do you mean you redid the sections? Untimed?

No--every time I re-did a section, I timed it again. And I made sure to do the whole section of all 4 games for 35 minutes, instead of splitting it into shorter segments of time to work on individual games. That way I forced my brain to move rapidly between logic games and I started getting better at managing time for the whole section.

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kacantolina79
Tuesday, Dec 13 2016

@ If you don't mind me asking, what do you think helped you the most to break a 170?

Hey! I think 1. pressure from the December test letting out really helped me break 170, but my biggest problem was the logic games. I spent maybe 2 weeks doing nothing but complete timed logic game sections with no pauses or interruptions, and then redid all of the sections until I got all of the answers right. I think that pushed me over the edge, because I really never struggled with RC. Next up, I need to start working on my logical reasoning sections, because I seem to miss between 2-5 for every single one and I feel like I have the most area to improve there. But mostly, I think it was just relaxing a little and cutting myself some slack after all that hard work. I had a big jump in score after I took a few days off. So far I've taken another test and got a 169--it's not 170, but it definitely tells me that the first score wasn't a fluke!

Good lord, I find this question frustrating and I cannot for the life of me determine how any single one of these answers could be seen as satisfactory.

This is the question where West says that Haynes is the worst inspector. I honestly couldn't figure out how any answer would suffice, and even seeing the correct answer, I cannot begin to fathom why it might be correct. I think this literally may be the only case where I haven't been able to even begin to understand why the right answer is correct for this question.

The correct answer states that Young responds by denying one of West's presuppositions. But I cannot see how Young does this. Young states that Haynes inspected significantly more than half of the appliances inspected last year. I immediately registered this as countering West's argument by pointing out that given the proportion of appliances Haynes inspected, it does not indicate any failing that such a high proportion of rejected appliances would have been inspected by him. Can anyone give me a breakdown of this?

Where is the "presupposition?" How on earth would Young be countering it?

https://classic.7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-79-section-4-question-12/

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Friday, Mar 10 2017

kacantolina79

Interview! Pre-recorded?

Hello! I don't know if it's kosher to ask for guidance on this subject so if it isn't...please ignore. But I got invited via email for a video interview with Cornell law! I'm freaking out! I have no idea what to expect or what to think will happen but...does anyone have any pertinent advice to this kind of interview and how to prepare? There's no deadline...no information included....I guess I'm going to just do my research (especially on Cornell!) today and dive into the interview some time tomorrow when I'm at home and hope for the best?

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kacantolina79
Friday, Dec 09 2016

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As long as you took the PT under "real" conditions, that 170+ score was no freak accident! Good job, keep it up.

Exactly! Glad to hear this. It's making me excited about breaking this barrier myself.

Congratulations to you as well! It feels so good, especially when I was starting to think the best I'd ever do was a 167!

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Friday, Dec 09 2016

kacantolina79

Broke the barrier!

Nothing much to say here except that after a grueling month and a half of study, I finally broke the 170 barrier! Here's hoping it wasn't a freak accident and I can keep it up. I'm taking the February LSAT and I'm starting to feel pretty confident!!

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kacantolina79
Friday, Jan 06 2017

@ This is so comprehensive! Thank you. It actually is kind of a relief to hear that this is normal to encounter even for top scorers. I've been very anxious about these last few questions. It makes sense that I should just focus on the easiest ones that I miss---Occam's razor, I guess.

@ Thank you! I'll give that a shot. I wish I had equally good advice to give you about the RC section! I tend to just read through and answer the questions, but I read pretty fast because I've been reading non-fiction books and news publications, etc. for entertainment for years. The only thing I can suggest is maybe making sure you read thoroughly, and don't skim, because the places where my eyes glaze over tend to be the places I miss questions, when I do.

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Friday, Jan 06 2017

kacantolina79

How to get those last points on LR

Hello!

It was about a month ago that I first broke into the 170s on practice tests (sadly, just after taking my December test on which I only managed a 165) where something finally clicked and I started going from -9s to -2s and -3s on LG. It seems like a few hard logic games can really trip me up and bring my score back down, so I'm drilling as many of them as possible until the February test so that they feel as natural as breathing, hopefully.

In the mean time, though, I still miss between 2 and 4 on each logical reasoning section, sometimes losing as many as 8 combined between them! I'd like to figure out how to move forward, but I don't think I'm missing any particular concept. Parallel reasoning is a pain to do, but the questions I seem to miss seem to only fall into one of two categories: 1. I read an easy question incorrectly and missed a point or 2. It's the sort of question where I go back and STILL can't get the right answer. I can always sort of SEE why the correct answer is correct, but I don't usually take away any general principle from the wrong answer other than maybe that a particular word was too strong or something, or some assumption I didn't pick up on.

Can anyone recommend a way to move forward and use this review time wisely? I worry that I can review and review on logical reasoning and never learn the new things I would need to get that 175+ score that I'm hoping might still be possible? Maybe?

(side note: no worries on RC, I only ever missed one or two in that section, even in diagnostics. I'm mostly focused on drilling the heck out of LG and polishing my LR abilities.)

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kacantolina79
Friday, Feb 03 2017

Haha, I'm relieved to know I'm in such good company. Maybe all of the LSAT stress has gotten our immune systems suppressed. Thanks for the advice--I'm thinking it sounds smart to bring lots of water, rest up, and avoid any meds.

Good luck all! We can get through this!

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Friday, Feb 03 2017

kacantolina79

Sick on the day of the LSATs...again.

So here's a general question for anyone who's ever had this awful experience...It appears I'm going to be sick on the day of the February LSATs after having the flu on the day I had to take the December ones. ( I think I tempted fate by loudly announcing to the universe, "oh well, at least I know I won't get sick again for the February LSATs, haha" after taking the first ones). The first time I didn't take any meds (because I didn't want to further dull my thinking), didn't touch or breathe on anyone, and just tried to muscle through. This time, all I appear to have is a cold, but I'm wondering if you all know of any cough/cold meds that you can take that won't make you drowsy or dull your thinking at all. Has anyone been in this position before? Did you have suggestions for how to get through this? I got through a test with a flu without it too much affecting my score (just a 165, but it's not the best I can do by a longshot) so a cold should be easy. But I just don't want to take anything that's going to put me out of it.

Cheers and good luck tomorrow!

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