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margaretannefarrell995

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margaretannefarrell995

Thursday, Oct 12 2017

So a few things:

If I take a year off to study, I'm still going to be running into the same issues I faced this summer where I'm balancing all three and won't be fully able to commit before the June or September exams. I work in higher ed so my crazy seasons are the weeks before both of those exams. I worked 80 hours the week before the June exam this year and 70 before the September. This is why I'm hesitant to retake because even if I do better on the LG and LR sections I'm going to be exhausted anyway.

In terms of URM status, my sexual orientation would be something to write about as I identify as LGBTQ but I dont use that as a primary identifyier so I feel slimy trying to leverage that for admission.

So ultimately, thoughts on an lsat addendum actually being useful as well as a diversity statement?

General · Reverse Splitter Help

margaretannefarrell995

Thursday, Oct 12 2017

Grad school plus a full time job with lots of overtime is already a substantial time suck. So I literally do not have the time if I want to sleep and be healthy. To me that's pretty important. I tried moving my schedule around when I was studying this summer and it didn't help much so I don't know what I could do differently this time around.

My proposed list is:

Targets-

Fordham

George Washington

Minnesota

Reaches-

Harvard

Georgetown

Columbia

UChicago

Safety-

Northeastern

Suffolk

Loyola Chicago

Villanova

This is the expanded list and I'll probably cut some of the reaches because why waste $80...

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Thursday, Oct 12 2017

margaretannefarrell995

Reverse Splitter Help

Hi all,

I am in a bit of a quandary: I had a ugrad gpa of 3.84 from a top 30 undergrad (graduated with many national honors), currently am working full time and doing my MEd in ed policy and leadership (grad gpa 3.9), on the board of a local non-profit and other strong soft markers, but my lsat was 158, aka WAY LOWER than reflects my ability but was where I was testing during practice. I have never been good at non-subject based standardized tests so I know it doesn't reflect my inherent academic aptitude. I don't have the time in my schedule to take it again so I really just don't know where to move forward. I think I'm just going to apply to my school list anyway and hope for the value of a holistic review. Anybody know of any success of people in similar positions?

Admissions · Increase in 160s-170+ scorers! (2017-2018)

margaretannefarrell995

Monday, Dec 11 2017

@ said:

Ugh... knowing that I didn’t score my ultimate potential, feeling more and more like I might delay a cycle. :(

Yeah I'm delaying too :( I have a high GPA and low ish score so I decided to take it again in Feb and apply once the 2019 app opens next September. Which will be easy because I already compiled my entire application...