IMO this should be classified as RRE

Key words here are "hardly any" in the conclusion. If we introduce a new premise that people can get sick from eating the lobsters, the proposal should for sure go through because there is now a chance of people getting sick (proposal is no longer pointless).

Try not to get discouraged. I have a lot of respect for people like you. You made some pretty serious sacrifices for others in your life. Stay positive and write a killer diversity statement and hope for the best. You need to have an amazing character to serve in the marine corps. I have no doubt somewhere down the line in your career there will be people who will give you the opportunities you deserve. Thank you for your service.

HYS is a stretch with a 3.7 unless you are URM. I wouldn’t rule out t14 though

Rewriting is a waste of time. That cGPA is what is killing you.

You only get the special URM treatment if you are AA or Hispanic/Mexican. Write a diversity statement though!

lol man you have unreal patience. I would have just hung up the phone

You have a shot at T-14 but i'd say T6 is a stretch unless you break 175 (which is no easy feat).

the stingray is a red herring/distractor element, the question has nothing to do with it (well it does but in a very weak sense). Forget about the stingray. With parasites --> healthy environment , no parasites --> unhealthy environment. Now explain why or how this works. Ok if the environment is unhealthy then the osyters and shrimps die. The parasites need these oysters and shrimps for their life cycle, without them they will die as well.

They use the idea of the stingray to try and develop a weak paradox because the parasite makes the stingray unhealthy so it makes you think that its strange that no parasites means the environment is unhealthy. Just think of the stingray as being encompassed by the term "ecosystem". The stingray (element encompassed by "ecosystem") doesn't have the same relationship with the parasite as the general "ecosystem" does. This is supposed to be the paradox but it is a terrible one that is super weak and hard to sense. By explaining how the parasite relates to the general ecosystem we have resolved the paradox because the stingray is an element that is encompassed by the "ecosystem".

6 months of solid heavy technical reading (the economist, academic journals etc) might improve your RC and cause you to break through that plateau, -10 / -15 on RC suggests deep issues though, it might take a while to fully correct.

Your average score in reading comprehension makes me think it is spilling into your LR section and causing you to get more questions wrong in this area. Usually the students with average RC scores get hit down by the curve breaker LR questions for the same reasons they are scoring lower in RC. Reading comprehension is a skill that takes years of focus to cultivate. It can be done but as you likely already know RC is a tough egg to crack.

It is impossible to verify so it doesn't matter. Anyone can say they worked 40+ hours a week while studying or they started 15 clubs and learned how to walk on their hands and play 100 instruments. It doesn't matter, the top schools want raw intelligence and strong academic performance because academics is what you will be doing while in school. You should take out a loan and dedicate more time to studying LSAT if you are super worried about it, or just push back your timeline? Just remember anyone can work 40 hours a week but not everyone can get the questions right.

C is also a bad answer because there is a huge assumption you need to make that depression has something to do with being fearful of dying which may not be the case.