So it appears that one of my essay was selected by an undergrad IR journal (Yale Review of International Studies)... To what extent does it help me with my application to a T14 school? How should I maximize the benefit it may bring me? Thank you!
I know it's kinda early to ask about admission stuff as a sophomore but I am really concerned about my GPA. My school (Wesleyan U in Middletown, CT) has a terrible policy of using 94% as the bar between A and A-minus; thanks to this policy I got a straight A-minus for this semester and I fear that this trend will continue given the general deflation at my school. Moreover, since I am aiming for law schools in Canada (U of T, Osgoode Hall, and Ottawa), I have the feeling that they do not know much about the deflation thing going on at Wesleyan. What should I do? How can I inform these schools about the situation at my school?
I personally find the "most" in stem most of the time (to qualify it, 99% if not 100% of the time) indicates there is only one correct answer - that is, for example, in "most weaken" questions, there is one and only one answer that actually weakens the argument, whereas the other four answers simply would not weaken the argument (but the LSAC would trick you into thinking they could).
Sometimes certain answers would not be outright wrong, but they simply fail to address the crux of the argument and thus do not count as the right answer. This is perhaps the kind of situation closest to what you've described in your post; nevertheless, the rule still holds - in most if not all of the stems phrased with "most," only one answer actually proposes to weaken, strengthen, or do whatever they need to do.