it depends on employment outcomes. If outcomes are bleak then go $0 if they are strong then the second option is much better.

Generally schools start to care after 6-7 takes. Keep in mind though, the paradigm for LSAT frequency is going to change drastically over the next two years.

Moving to electronic is going to allow for immediate score turnaround and several more test administrations per year. I don’t think it will be uncommon in the next few years and onward for students to take 5 or more times.

The real cost in the past to taking the test multiple times was

scores were averaged

test was offered a few times per year

Both of these are not the case anymore. First of all, USNews only counts a student’s highest test score. And secondly, the test will be offered more similarly to the GRE in the near future, with administrations happening bi-weekly or at the very least monthly.

It’s highly unlikely that you’ll get any money as a grant from FAFSA. They will offer you loans, but almost never grants or scholarships.

The vast majority of law students finance their education through school scholarships and fafsa loans. There are two types of fafsa loans, one requiring a credit check and the other not requiring a credit check.

You can usually borrow $21,000 per year without a credit check through FAFSA. Then everything additional will require credit.

You should meet with or call the financial aid office at all of these schools and check to see how most students finance their legal education and what the median debt figures are.

You won't remember a lot of it. You are going to constantly have to refer back to the CC.

Jobs in government vary drastically. There are a lot of legal jobs available in government but the best ones are, unsurprisingly competitive. In any case, the more competitive government jobs are going to be judicial clerkships, especially federal ones. Below that, it's not nearly as competitive. I think you'd have an opportunity to get a job in the government in Michigan fairly easily coming from OSU, but you're going to have to do your own legwork to get it.

Law schools understand that the admissions process is fluid and that your mind will change as new variables come into the equation. What you wrote in your letter before represented your state of mind at that time, with the information that you had at that moment. Your situation changed - your outlook changed.

You are technically going back on your word, but you can chalk this one up to a small personal error and a lesson in making promises. Just don't make another decision that you'll regret by following through with your promise if it's not the best school for you to attend.

Also, anticipating that you'll have 200ish hours of study time before September, it's important to keep in mind that for the Ultimate+ version, the CC alone is 215 hours. I also think that you'll probably need to sink at least 50 hours into LG outside of what's in the CC. So I doubt that Ultimate + makes sense in your case. You should probably start with the starter pack and then once you finish all the content you have access to, buy the next version.

The gap between my first PT and my BR was 20 so it's not unusual. I got destroyed by the time element because I have not been an avid reader so I read slowly. I felt rushed my first several PT's because of this and it took me a while to get over the panic associated with rushing.

Once you get more practice you'll be able to overcome the sense of rushing through and your BR score will become more similar to your timed score. My final PT was only 4 points below my final BR.

What was your score breakdown? (for example -1RC -5LG -2LR -3LR)

Also, i'd like to point out that below WUSTL, pretty much every school is a regional trap. For example, If you hate Minnesota but love Atlanta, then the University of Georgia is going to be a better school for you even though it's 7 places lower. The employment outcomes are so similar from ranks 20-30 it really comes down more to where you want to work once you graduate.

You can get a job in Big Law from UVA without much difficulty. However, take into consideration the attrition rate in Big Law. For every 25 Big Law associates that are hired, 17 leave. With that in mind, I think it's reasonable to suspect that there's a strong chance you will leave Big Law, and an even stronger chance that if you stay in Big Law you will hate it. Even if you love Big Law, the expected billable hours are often 30%-40% higher than other legal jobs so you're working for the extra money. Needless to say, there are a lot of life sacrifices that come with a career Big law.

If you know for sure that you will be satisfied in Big law and that you will stay there for a good part of your career, then the $250k loan isn't a big deal. However, there's no way to get that guarantee.

So you have to ask yourself whether you're willing to take out $250k of debt knowing that the majority of Big Law associates hate their job or leave Big Law in the first few years.

I also, however, I don't want to be misleading here. You still have great employment opportunities if you choose to leave Big Law after a few years, but the debt will be harder to cover once you drop down from making 190k per year.

I applied in Dec and I haven't heard from any CA schools either.

No wait two weeks. If you haven't heard by the end of two weeks then call.

Rank is a reflection of quality. I suggest that you check out the ABA required employment disclosures, Above the Law rankings and LST scores. All these three give insight into employment outcomes while dispensing of LSAT and GPA weight.

It is true that in general the top 14 schools are going to have significantly better employment opportunities than the following 14. However, once you get to about rank 30 on any list, the employment differences between schools get smaller and smaller. Below the T20, It comes down to what region you want to practice in rather than the rank of the school.

If you can't make it into the T20, try to find the best school for your desired region of employment rather than looking at rankings.

Q1: There are two types of untimed drills. One is “natural pace” which means that you give each question a solid effort, but you don’t devote more than a few minutes to any single question. It’s meant to provide a benchmark for accuracy and timing across the whole section. The second type of untimed drilling is where you work on every question until you get to be as certain as you reasonably can, even if it takes you ten minutes for a single question. I don’t think this second type is as helpful as the first because you end up wasting a lot of time.

Q2: It could be beneficial to do a whole PT untimed, but generally speaking, the most effective method for untimed testing is to weave in untimed sections throughout the week and then address the errors that you made in the untimed sections within the same 24 hour period. I’m assuming that an untimed PT plus Br would take up too much time to do all at once.

Q3: Keep the old tests that you’ve already completed for later so that you can come back to them down the road to see where you have improved and where you still need to improve. Make sure to do your BR within 24 hours of taking a PT so that you remember what your thought process was when answering each question.

Q4: It depends how long your prep is going to last. If you have a year or more to prepare, use 1-35 for drills and 36-present for full, timed PTs. If you are only preparing for a few months and don’t plan on doing more than 20 PTs, drill from 20-50.

Q5: You should try to push your BR score to 4-5 above your timed goal score before you move on to intense timed practice.

There’s a lot here, but feel free to PM me if you have some specific questions!

If you broke it up by section, and didn't take the full test altogether, you will definitely be introducing a confounding data point if you choose to enter it. However, the purpose, as far as I can tell, of the analytics tool is to show you where you are weak in terms of specific questions. The macro data regarding score increases over time is nice to see, but it won't help your score improve. If you took those sections under strict timed conditions, then I see no significant reason why you shouldn't enter them into the analytics tool. It will help you spot trends in question misses whether it be by section or by type that you might miss if you do it by hand. If you are concerned that you will inflate your score by entering this in as a legitimate test, you can always delete the test after you have entered it!

A lot of schools use indices that factor both GPA and LSAT. If you are 10 points above 75th percentile, you will most of the time get a full-tuition scholarship if not close to full tuition, as long as your GPA is above the 25th percentile for that school. There is no specific function, however, that is reliable in predicting scholarship offers.

For example, I was median at one school for LSAT and slightly above median for GPA and I was offered a full-tuition scholarship. And in the following week, I was wait-listed at a lower ranked school. So I think it's safe to say there is some luck involved.

In general, when comparing GPA to LSAT, a single point on the LSAT is worth .1 for GPA. SO a student with a 170 LSAT and a 3.5 GPA is roughly equivalent to a 171 LSAT and a 3.4 GPA. This rule, however, is not fool-proof and breaks down when you consider 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile cut-off points. At a School with a 3.3 25th percentile GPA and a 3.7 50th percentile, the 171 with a 3.4 is a much more appealing candidate, because their 3.4 doesn't effect the numbers that they report to a significant degree. In the same respect, if a school has a 75th percentile LSAT of 165 and a 25th percentile GPA of 3.5, the 170 LSAT candidate is going to be more advantageous because he falls at or above the 25th percentile, and doesn't risk a 25th GPA decrease.

For NA questions, you shouldn't be pre-phrasing because NAs can be virtually infinite. In general, it is useful to understand the flaws in an argument because they can give you an idea of what to look for in the answer choices. But this process is often misleading and can be a major time sink. I would recommend that you allow the answer choices guide you through for NA questions. With practice, the correct NA will pop out to you when you read it.

I don't understand what you're asking. It would be helpful if you rephrased the question :)

Generally within 3 weeks after acceptance :)

The plain version is ideal. Law school admissions officers aren't going to be impressed by an unusual resume. At best they won't care either way, at worst it annoys them. For law school applications the purpose of the resume is to provide an introductory, clear record of your professional and academic accomplishments. You use the personal statement and additional essays to differentiate yourself from other applicants.

Only in the off chance that you don't know, schools usually offer a few hundred bucks for travel fees to students from out of state, or even around $100 for some in-state students! If you don't know if they have this, check with someone from the school and see if you can get a stipend!

"Complete" means that they have received all of the necessary forms for your application and "under review" generally means that they have opened your file but have not made a decision yet.

The fact that you're only picking up 2 extra questions in LR during blind review tells me that you need to return to the fundamentals and do lots of un-timed drilling.

The general consensus for BR scores is that you need to have your BR score exceed your goal score by at least 5 points before you're ready to move on to timed drilling. Until you get to that point, continue doing un-timed drilling and honing in your fundamentals.

When I read this, I got stressed thinking about how there are only a limited number of paper tests left for the LSAT and that it's moving to digital after that.... then I remembered that I am done with the LSAT.

I guess the LSAT neuroticism never leaves us - like dreams about having to return to high school to finish a chemistry class.