Sounds like burnout! I would take a few days off of studying LSAT entirely. Maybe this Friday do some timed sections just to get your mind back in the swing of things, but nothing too intensive.
Is this July test your first LSAT? If so, don't stress out! Remember, law schools only care about your highest score (with maybe the exception of Yale), so even if you bomb this one you still have September going for you! Heck, I took the December exam and my cycle worked out amazingly. Don't stress too much and try to relax this week leading up to test day!
I agree with @helentang02726; so long as the events shaped who you are today, it doesn't matter when they happened! I wrote part of my PS about high school lol.
The only thing I would advise is to make sure your story is about OVERCOMING adversity and not just adversity itself. Telling the story of your hardship should take up some of your personal statement, but the overwhelming majority of your PS should be about what you learned and how that adversity shaped you :smile:
I wouldn't underestimate the power of a fantastic GPA + first gen! Being a first gen is incredibly rare nowadays, and I know some first-gen people that, despite having lower than 25th percentile LSATs for a given school, gain admission. That could definitely be why you're getting a hand-written letter to go visit AND for WashU to pay for the visit. It's a great advantage in your corner, however I would of course advocate working hard to up that LSAT score and broaden your horizons :smile:
@mzilberstein2015676 So as I progressed through my LSAT studying, I gradually marked less and less, to the point where I was just basically underlining main points and conclusions of author's arguments.
For example, if the passage said something like:
"At the end of the experiment, there were seventeen more koalas with insomnia in the control group than in the experimental group. Additionally, the koalas in the control group had far larger bags under their eyes than those that received Ambien. From this, Jonathan concluded that Ambien would help humans sleep, but he was wrong."
In that passage, I would have just underlined the bolded part - it's the conclusion of the past few sentences. It would also be important to mark the "BUT" to indicate a shift in the conclusion; I would circle it so that IF you go back to the passage, you don't mistakenly think that "Jonathan concluded that Ambien would help humans sleep" was the point of that paragraph.
Also, I would strongly advocate "reading like a robot." Oftentimes I catch myself not really retaining sentences I just read. When this happened, I "read like a robot," in that I read a sentence putting a slight, mili-second pause between each word, and over-annunciated each syllable in each word (as if I was a 2-year-old just learning how to read). So instead of reading quickly and fluidly like "I read like-a-robot," I would read like, "I. READ. LIKE. A. RO. BOT." I would do this for as long as I needed to make sure I was retaining all the info. I know it's a bit strange, but its what worked for me :)
I hope these tips help!
Read slower.
That might seem counterintuitive, but on RC people have a tendency to try to read the passage too fast to "save time." However, if you read the passage too fast then you won't retain any of it, and then you end up wasting time re-reading parts of the passage to answer specific questions. If you read slower, you can retain more and then won't have to keep going back, saving you a lot more time and frustration.
Reading slower helped me get from -6/-5 on RC to -0/-2.
I think you have decent chances if you apply early. With Cornell's mandatory little essay, make sure you communicate that you have researched in depth about Cornell.
Thanks all :)
@acsimon699 It's been a wild ride for sure haha. I'll see you on the other side, the lawyer side that is :smile:
Yeah, I think so 100%. Otherwise the admissions committee will be under the impression you graduated with your bachelors in two years.
@danielmoshesieradzki129 said:
@estoutenburg25267 said:
Remember this thread (https://classic.7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/13281/case-study-what-i-did-wrong-on-test-day)? ;) @danielmoshesieradzki129, I think the movie now has a happy ending! (3(/p)
LOOOOOOOOOOL I remember this.
gr8 ending indeed #CaintStopWinning
Lol that hashtag tho :smile:
Thanks all!
Hey I can take a look! PM me and I'll send you my e-mail
Thanks all again :smile:
@onaifoda488.Sieradzki I look forward to meeting you too! P.S. - If you haven't already, remember to complete the rest of the incoming-students checklist on the status checker (the status checker should have updated after you enrolled). Also remember to submit your mailing address to them for the admit packet (also on the status checker).
@estoutenburg25267 said:
Remember this thread (https://classic.7sage.com/discussion/#/discussion/13281/case-study-what-i-did-wrong-on-test-day)? ;) @danielmoshesieradzki129, I think the movie now has a happy ending! (3(/p)
Omg hahahaha. What a throwback :smile:
AAYYYEEE!!! SEE YOU IN CAMBRIDGE :smile:!!!!!!!!
@estoutenburg25267 said:
@pcainti665 said:
Thanks all :smile:! Also go over to @acsimon699 's post and congratulate him! He just got into Harvard too!!!!
Omg, congrats!! Now he has to choose between Yale or Harvard?! :worried:
Wait I meant @junhao31351 lol. My mistake!
Thanks all :smile:! Also go over to @acsimon699 's post and congratulate him! He just got into Harvard too!!!!
AH!!! SEE YOU IN CAMBRIDGE BROTHER :smile: !!!!!
This forum is incredibly valuable, especially during the admissions process. Have members of the community read and re-read your personal statement, advise you on letters of rec, LOCI, etc. This community is super powerful - use it!
Hey everyone,
I just got off the waitlist at Harvard Law. Still in shock about it all.
Thanks to the 7Sage community for all the support you've given me over the past year. Truly truly truly I would not have been this successful without you all. My cycle has ended with my dream outcome.
If there's anything I can do to help the community going forward - anyone that wants tips/tricks from the LSAT to admissions - just let me know.
Best,
Paul
@lizpil252 The good thing is that the essay doesn't count towards your score :smile:! Though you don't want to leave it blank/doodle (some law schools actually look at this...like Yale)
[deleted] - I thought you meant accommodations while in law school, but I think you mean during the LSAT haha.
Oh my gosh dude, I just logged on to 7Sage for the first time in forever and saw this.
CONGRATU-FRIGGN-LATIONS!!! I'm so crazy happy for you. You deserve this so much dude. After all you've gone through this cycle, I'm glad your story has a happy ending!