@lindseyemitchell753 @gregoryalexanderdevine723 Thank you! I think I will include it in my resume - I'm earning the credits as part of an internship, and if I decide to pursue a master's, they would count towards the degree.
Currently, I am taking graduate level courses as a non-degree seeking student. Should I add this school to my list on the LSAC website? Also, should I include the school on my resume? I feel like it could help with my application, any advice is much appreciated!
Thanks for the explanations, they were very helpful! Would E also be wrong because the premise says "cannot afford to lose," but the conclusion states that " he can afford to lose"?
Ugh, the only reason I got this wrong was because I read through the answer choices too quickly and missed logical indicators. The flaw was pretty simple: trying to satisfy the necessary condition to conclude the sufficient condition. I'll be prepared next time!
Could someone explain how to identify this question as NA and not MBT? Looking at it as a NA question, answer choice (C) is obviously the correct answer, but I still don't understand how to identify this as a NA question.
Not all schools require financial difficulties for a fee waiver. For example, from Northwestern's website:
"As an incentive for prospective applicants to apply early (between September 1 to December 1), we offer application fee waivers to any prospective JD applicant who simply fills out our registration form. This form can be found on our Apply page. A fee waiver code will be generated and emailed within 2-3 business days."
Not sure what other schools do that but I would check the websites for every school you are applying to and see what they say. Good luck!
Could you elaborate on why you think it is irrelevant? From what I understood in JY's explanation, he explicitly circles the word 'many' as contributing to why C is wrong. "Many" means "some," and "some" means anywhere from 1 - all. Hence why "many" middle-age people with depression could be a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of the population and doesn't explain why there are more middle-age people with fear of dying versus elderly.
Hey @rahelaalam514, I am in a similar situation as you (graduated in 2015 and having to get in contact with professors who have moved to different universities). I was only able to get one academic letter of rec, but from what I have seen, admissions officers will take into account that it is more difficult for those of us who have been out of school for longer to get in touch with old professors.
If you are confident in your two academic recs you have so far, I wouldn't stress about it. Law school apps give you many opportunities to explain these kinds of situations and it won't be held against you if something outside of your control happens :smile:
@jkatz1488955 Looking at it that way, I think it makes sense for me to write about it. I definitely feel much more confident about my topic choice now!
@gregoryalexanderdevine723 Thanks! Honestly, I think that I shouldn't have a problem explaining how my situation makes me diverse. Just wanted to make sure it would be an appropriate topic :smile:
Hey everyone, I was looking for some advice regarding writing a diversity statement. I wasn't originally going to write one, since I am a white, upper-middle class female who hasn't experienced too much hardship in my life for the most part. However, the admissions course includes: "you were or are burdened with an unusual responsibility" as a topic for diversity statements, and I was wondering if y'all believe my situation would apply:
Not to go into too much detail, but I was in a serious relationship with someone who struggled with a severe addiction disorder. It greatly affected my personal and professional life because I was primarily the only person who was there to take care of my partner. I'm just not sure if that admissions officers would see that experience the same as taking care of a sibling or parent with addiction. Any advice would be much appreciated, thanks in advance.
I chose the wrong answer because I forgot that MANY = SOME. "Many" people is too vague and leaves the possibility of not encompassing more middle-age over elderly.
I think the fact that this section had such a lackluster argument is what really threw me off. I finished reading and had no sense of the direction the author was trying to push me in..luckily reading the questions helped me get a better sense of the big picture of the passage. Definitely want to practice more passages like this, I could easily see myself getting thrown off on the LSAT by this one.
@victorialn880 said:
I felt similarly when I first started experimenting with skipping (I realized I was skipping questions I shouldn't have and just freaking out that I skipped so many) so I adjusted my strategy a bit. I decided that if I skipped any question(s) on a page I would come back to it after I finished all of the questions on the two pages in front of me so that I wouldn't be leaving it for the end (and freaking out about the total amount of questions I skipped) but I would still give myself a short time away from the question so I could come back and hopefully understand it. In other words, I wouldn't turn the page until my skipped questions were answered. I'm not sure if this makes sense, but if questions 1-8 are in front of me and I skipped #2, I'd finish the rest of 1-8 first, then go back to #2 and answer it before turning the page and moving on to 9-15 on the next two pages. I hope this helps even though my explanation was a little wonky
I also do this, especially with RC. I find I save more time when I go back to the questions that I skipped while still on the passage, rather than waiting till the end of the section and having to completely refresh myself on each passage. Plus, since the questions for each passage in RC are dealing with the same subject matter (unlike LR), doing some of the other questions for the passage can help me to better see the answers for the previous questions I skipped.