hey, I am sorry to hear about your medical condition. many schools have a prompt for an optional essay, you can definitely submit it there. many schools also allow for a diversity statement that is left open ended, meaning that you can write about anything that may add to the diversity of the campus. if you can explain how your condition has affected you and made you diverse I think it may be fine. I believe there are only a few schools such as NYU that specify that the diversity statement has to be addressing URM status. 7sage has a guide to the requirements for schools which is a great resource.
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so sorry about your ordeal. i had a really bad testing condition problem on my LSAT in September and after contacting LSAC they allowed me extra time to cancel and included a letter in my file confirming the story i had told, which will go to the schools along with the cancellation. best of luck
hey @nathanieljschwartz435 i was just up in binghamton yesterday, gorgeous views
Do you by any chance know the different Max lengths for the T14 schools?
it would seem that many schools have a 2 page limit for the personal statement. Do you guys think i schools will care if i were to make the margins abit bigger to accommodate a bit of a longer essay? i dont think they need to follow a specific format APA..etc, it would seem the only requirement is double space
hey guys, sorry i completely forgot to mention that the real impetus for building the gym was that my academy had 120 guys in it that all needed a gym but were unsuccessful in soliciting the school to build one. everyone in the school used the gym free of charge and i still hear from people there that they use it daily
i was doing some brainstorming on ideas for my personal statement
and wanted to get the communities take on them.
i studied abroad in the middle east for 3 yrs and the academy i studied in lacked a gym . the closest gym to us was about an hour away and exorbitantly expensive. i am a fitness fanatic and after a year of working out in my room with whatever objects i could use as weights i decided that this has to end. i went to the school and petitioned them to give me a room in the dormitory to use as a gym, after many long arguments, they agreed to give me a small room as long as the school would have no expenses from the gym. I then went out and fundraised money for gym equipment and new flooring. i was able to raise a few thousand dollars. i travelled 2 hrs to closest gym supplier and purchased whatever machinery and weights we could afford and the flooring, they shipped it to the academy. and i spent a week installing the flooring myself and building all the equipment, for the next 2 years i did the maintenance and upkeep of the gym until i came back stateside.
any thoughts on this idea would be much appreciated . thanks for reading!
It means a flaw in an argument that we see many times throughout tests for example we see the author confuses necessity and sufficiency all the time so I would note this in the effort that I realize it faster the next time I see it
this applies to all strengthen. weaken flaw and SA questions and very often for NA questions
I really think the CC is good make flash cards and go through them for a couple of days 2× times a day.
Also make it a habit to employ identifying cookie cutter flaws during BR. many LSAT questions repeat but w different words. you will start to notice patterns in Flaws and make sure to write it down every time.
also during my own personal BR I write down the conclusion first and than work backwards to the premise no matter the structure it presents itself in the stimulus this has helped me loads.
I write:
conclusion
why?
Premise:
flaw:
and than I analyze the AC.
this brought me from -6/-7 to around -3.
hope this helps
I think this is something that many people don't fully come to but once you realize that every flaw, weaken, strengthen, SA are the same, .A flaw ask you to speak out the problem, A weaken asks you to actually identify the flaw and expose it with a scenario. every strengthen question asks you to shore up the flaw in the argument. and SA questions ask you to find the link between premise and conclusion which is a flaw.
Memorizing common flaws will help you with at least 3 of the 4 above and is a game changer for speed and accuracy
hi,
yeah LR is a very complicated section. There is a lot more going on throughout an LR section then LG and even RC. I would appreciate if you could give a little more background. Do you struggle with every LR type or just a a few specific question types?
for myself what has brought me down to consistently missing 1-2 was memorizing common flaws and getting down formal logic.
when it comes to structure it helps if you zero in on what's important i.e. if it's a MP I just look towards which direction the structure of the stimulus is headed.
If it's a flaw, we want to isolate exactly why the premises don't logically lead to the conclusion.
I would tell you that if you have trouble identifying conclusion and premises you should revisit the Grammar section of the CC and perhaps the LR section on Main Conclusions.
hope some of this helps
Hi, so I would tell you that unless the school is Yale or possibly Stanford I doubt they will average your scores. It is known that almost no schools really average bc it is against there better interest. All schools are obsessed with their rankings with the US news and it is there prerogative to only report the highest score of their applicants. All this said I doubt you have to worry abt scoring a 175. would you mind telling me what the schools average is ?
Haha. Wow good for you that you don't watch TV, your automatically 10× more productive than I am
Abit burnt out of studying and thought I would share this during my 15 break lol
I was just rewatching suits and when rachel got her rejection letter from Harvard I realized that Sheila really must have held it against loius even though she claimed she didnt. Rachel had a 172 , I'm assuming a stellar GPA from a top undergrad and she is a URM.
I'm no conspiracy theorist but.....
the general consensus is to foolproof LG which can take a month or so I personally took a PT right after I finished with the CC
i took it abroad and had a better experience then in the states it was super chilled and the Procters were great
@nathanieljschwartz435 @ohnoeshalpme804 pretty funny post but pretty sure its a bot
Yeah im with @saberhossinei210 iv seen major admittance to splitters in wustl. And some with large money. With a high LSAT score there is alot of opportunity
@nathanieljschwartz435 as always your insights are much appreciated. I agree with you about being disappointed with this question. Throughout my lsat journey i have become sensitive to what assumptions the test allows for. And i have run into questions that would clearly allow this sort of assumption. But then in this question it hinges on not allowing that assumption. Either way. Its a good learning point even though i dont think there is another question this nitpicky. Thank you
I wanted to get the community's concensus on this question.
[A] after an intense BR is wrong, i beleive, bc the proponents of papercrete dont ever claim that its promising for small scale projects. They just beleive its promising for large builidings. Thoughts?
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I start by only going over questions that i circled. I write out conclusion and premises. I then locate the problem and try to fit it in a cookiecutter format. After i locate the AC i think is correct i compare that to what i chose on the timed test. And if its different i write out why i changed AC and, if applicable, my faulty reasoning. If my BR choice matches my actual choice. I write out why i had any doubt to the correct Answer. I then go through ALL the questions from the whole test and fit them into a cookiecutter mold if possible. I make sure to go through ALL the AC and clearly articulate why they are wrong or right. I then mark the test. And look at what i got wrong. I then repeat the BR process over again using LSATHACKS or 7sage explanations for all the questions on the test. I then enter anything i got wrong into a spreadsheet. And anything i circled i take a picture of on my phone and move it into an LSAT folder. Which i review a week later.
Havent hit it on test day yet. But it took me around 11 months to break into the 173 range. And i still drop to a 168-169 every 3/4 tests. My diag was 147
when taking timed PTS DO NOT PAUSE THE TIMER for anything. shut your phone off. try and condition yourself for what it will b like on test day