It was a pleasure working with you :) glad you have great outcomes. You were an incredible student

@sheridjw14 said:

Merry Christmas to you too. I was in a similar situation with RC until not too long ago. I was consistently -10 to 12. Honestly everything changed for me when I started working with @lexxx74569 for tutoring. He is amazing and just walking through a few practice passages helped a ton. Could not recommend Albert anymore highly!

I understand not everyone can afford tutoring. So another thing that I began doing in conjunction with tutoring that has helped tremendously is reading Economist articles. I am not just reading for pleasure though. I apply the “memory method” while doing so. I read the first paragraph summarize in my head, read the second and summarize the first and then the second paragraph, read the third and summarize first second and third paragraphs and so on. I do this for about the first five paragraphs since that is the typical length of an RC passage and then I write those 5 summaries out to test my memory. I then start over again if there are any remaining paragraphs in the article. I have found this has improved my short term memory and recollection of details so much. My last few RC scores on pt’s have been -4,5 and 6 just by doing this for about 5 or 6 articles a day. It also has exposed me to some dense stuff which has made reading certain RC passages far less difficult. Hopefully this is somewhat helpful. RC was so frustrating for me for so long, I just started experiencing decent scores on the section thanks to the above things, hopefully it will help you too!

Thanks! I love the economist

I wasnt an avid reader at all so reading everyday helped. Idk i also pretended they were lsat passages and tried to read them as similar as possible

a 164 diagnostic is nuts lol

https://www.lsac.org/applying-law-school/jd-application-process/cas/requesting/transcript-summarization

these are part of excluded grades

"The original grade for a repeated course when the transcript does not show both the grade and the units for the original attempt. The total number of credits assigned to these grades will appear on the applicant’s academic summary, but will not be included in the GPA calculation."

If the transcript doesnt show the original course grade, you should be fine

@kashibrandi609 said:

Just going to give my two cents as a previous Resident Assistant on campus and am familiar with these situations. The main thing you want to do is to acknowledge that you broke school policy, regardless of the fact that you have a medical card now, you didn't then and you got suspended for not following policy. You want to address that factor, not the factor of why you were necessarily using it. I would double check with your school to see what's on file but I know that each offense at my school was documented in the students file and I could personally see how many conducts they had attended. So it is really important to address the first and the second suspension. It doesn't sound like you are going to add this but incase you were thinking about it; I personally wouldn't add in that everyone was sent home a week later because of a pandemic...doesn't affect your actions that caused the outcome.

agreed! I would acknowledge that you did wrong. I wouldn't really mention the medical card, or the pandemic thing. On an application file it would sound more like excuses. And yea, just acknowledge you did wrong and own up to it on the addenda.

I do think there are some hostile comments on this post. OP was merely asking for advice on how to go about their situation.

I would have two versions. One thats a page and a half and one thats one page. The page and a half you can write more so that should be your main ds but some schools only allow one page (Berkeley)

Im Vietnamese and I wrote one. As long as you can talk about how your experience shaped your upbringing or perhaps tie it into you wanting to do law is important

It depends. Some give the amounts right away. Some accept you first and give scholarship information later.

@ravilashirovra590 said:

You can definitely have a successful career with a non-T14 degree. I think something to keep in mind is you might have to hustle a little harder in law school for it. For example, someone who goes to Emory posted on reddit how you can't get an interview with the office of career services there unless you are in the top 1/3 of the class. Everyone else (aka the majority of the class) has to do their own job hunting on Indeed, Glassdoor, cold emailing law firms, etc. And their office of career services is apparently not the best (this is school-specific, maybe other T30 places are better). Then I'd compare this to a UVA student on a webinar who said he feels comfortable being a median student and knowing he'll still get the job he wants, and it's basically unheard of for a UVA student to not get a job they want because of class rank or whatever.

So essentially, if you are at a higher ranked school, you will have a lot more success (or at least, easier to achieve success) in job hunting because you won't have to worry about your law school GPA/rank being "good" enough to get law firm interviews. People worry about this because law school is graded on a curve and basically everyone there is smart and talented. A "median" student in law school isn't in the top 1/3 but they're probably still incredibly smart.

Full-tuition and stipend offers in the T30 sound pretty excellent though. I think a lot of the worry about job prospects outside T14 is related to debt and not being able to repay it if you can't get a job that pays well enough. If you take debt out of the equation, I think you'd have a lot less to worry about.

perfectly said! for reference, my cousin graduated from GW and found a job in big law. However, she worked her ass off and was at the top of her class. She talked about how if you werent top 1/3 of the class, it was really hard to find a job in big law.

I think if you are already not considering big law/clerkship, rankings shouldnt be a huge deal. BUT, going outside the t14 will make it harder to find a job in another region. That's a given.

As far as ED, id stray against that. Unless you are perfectly find with 200k+ debt, dont do it.

I agree with noonawoon.

If you are OK with debt, then ED to T14 wouldnt hurt.

if you aren't ok with debt, dont ED no matter what.

if you dont want big law/clerkship, id for sure take the full tuition deal, unless regionality is a big thing to you. If you go outside t14, make sure you would at least be content with staying around where you go to law school.

@arianalotulelei733 said:

@lexxx74569 said:

I agree. Although im a bigger fan of freezing cold showers in the morning

I feel like a hot shower in the morning might make me drowsy

I read in a couple articles that colder showers signal it's time for the body to rest so those are better for before bed.

But who knows, it may be different for different people.

I was doing the wim hof method and it really helped. Not just with studying but general stress/anxiety.

Im not familiar with the actual research but practically i feel like a cold shower must wake you up more than a hot one. Ive never heard of someone doing a freezing cold shower in the morning and wanting to go to sleep after. Im not familiar with hot showers though, so to each their own

I would include the names

Unless you wrote like some thesis for one of the classes, I wouldnt put down the specific class

I wouldnt explain what the program is. I would lean more towards duties. I feel like adcoms would check anyway and would know. But if you do have space to spare, then it wouldnt hurt to explain. I dont think it would help much though

I agree. Although im a bigger fan of freezing cold showers in the morning

I feel like a hot shower in the morning might make me drowsy

@aljassarnada308 said:

No one here can really tell you this. If you can afford the app fees, apply to every school you're interested in. People with below median stats get in all the time, and people with above median get rejected all the time.

Agreed. Great advice!

I forgot where it was from, but it had to do with a traffic jam, obligation, and promise. It was in the 70s or 80s somewhere. Brutal NA question

I believe schools wait. You can submit them anyway but they wont look at them till letters are in

@maizinburly527 said:

@hopje336 said:

NO!! You're going to need to understand existential quantifiers before going into the logic games! Some and Most are important for those deductive inferences that games are testing (as are the universal quantifiers). I would spend the time on it NOW and then consider moving into LG. (Although, since JAN and FEB are Flex tests, I would finish the LR curriculum first ... you might not finish the LG curriculum and also be able to foolproof to get to a more comfortable '0' score in 1-2 months anyways.) ... You want to also be able to snag those low-hanging easier LR questions and not miss an 'easy' question because you skipped that section.

Also, understand that without a strong foundation of logic, you're entire score is likely to be mediocre. Maybe even consider postponing? ... Or at least to grab up a refund for one of your scheduled tests and maybe reschedule for April at the latest for the other test (or get another refund).

Could you elaborate on what LG's require knowledge of existential quantifiers? I don't believe knowing existential quantifiers are necessary for LG whatsoever- Just mainly for LR and a little in RC.

I agree. Id strike a happy medium watch the videos at the least. But i dont believe you need existential quantifiers for LG

LR there might be 1-2 questions a section

Same with RC

Just make sure you know what some most many means. Watching the videos should take like 20 minutes tops

@hopje336 said:

@lexxx74569

Just curious, but, for your example, wouldn't the full subject be: "this dog" for which, all instances of "this dog" are black? D(t) → B ??? Which is correct to say. And that to tie back to all dogs is a distraction/irrelevant, since just one dog is being talked about ???

(Knowing of course, and totally off-topic here, that to project out from a specific instance to a general conclusion commits an error of illicit transference (composition))

Yeah so if its just this dog then yes

For sake of diagramming it though, i mention it to just not get confused

This dog is the color black.

You cant say D-->B. That would mean all dogs are black.

So depends how you use the is.

Retake and apply next cycle

@lexxx74569 said:

I did the same as @aljassarnada308!

i ignored the why law in general and just wrote why duke

and i was accepted

I did the same as @aljassarnada308!

i ignored the why law in general and just wrote why duke

Sounds great! @jhaldy10325

Eileen Gray is my enemy :)

7sage is the best! :)

I would retake 1000% if you got approved for accommodations. And just update them on the new score.