I had the same issue. what helped was using my full 10 minute break to eat and stretch. i have a coke or something else sweet and caffeinated usually, or a sandwich with meat.

@ZulymarPerez sure

@Crisella so im a US citizen by birth, but my family raised me in pakistan. i went to a british online university thru a certified teaching center in pakistan. i had to get my british uni to mail transcripts to lsac for the CAS that "translates" your grades to a label like "average" "below average" "above average" "Exceptional."

Law schools will get a brief explanation of how these grades work. CRUCIALLY, this label does not get reported to the schools medians, which means that it will matter less to them if they are sensitive about medians. therefore, your LSAT and personal statement become more important. however, having that international background can be an interesting soft, especially if you can spin it as something that gave you lived experience.

i wrote an addendum about my grades to explain them better, personally, since my british uni made a point of giving A+s SO RARELY that they are called distinctions and only a few students across the world get them per year.

you definitley have a chance so don't feel discouraged :)

I've helped three people on the forums with feedback so far, if you want some quick feedback on your topic? i booked one of the 7sage essay things which was very helpful and i've read a lot about personal statements becuase i'm applying as a splitter.

but aside from that, i really recommend you dont overthink the topic at this stage. just write it out no matter what it is. if you dont like it, you gained experience and perspective from it, and you've refined your idea for a better topic on your own. if you do like it, you have an essay to work on! seriously just write it out first, since youre going to be a lawyer and writing a ton anyway.

dean z of umich recommended the book "bird by bird" for personal statements. i ended up reading it and loved it. a lot of the advice from the first 3 chapters really applies to personal statements for sure so i recommend checking it out. it's popular enough to be at your library if you live in a moderately sized city or you can buy it for $6 online like i did. i also recommend her podcast episode on "choosing a topic / difficult topics"

@jrrphd you said ". Shouldn't "experts" know that digitalization is followed by the re-creation of copies of a work, the criminality of which should also be considered? I would think so"

you said it yourself: you would think so. but all the passage says is the experts think criminalizing digitilization is the primary issue. its possible that they think making a copy should be a crime, but penalizing digitialization is more effective becuase no digitilizerd copies would be made if the risk of making a digitlization in the first place is too high. its possible they think what you posited too. but since we have no way of knowing, c has to be wrong.

Do you think have an underlying medical problem? Taking the LSAT and not getting my goal score because of insomina is actually what made me finally see a doctor for it. I take medication for sleep now and it's helped me out in most parts of my life, including the LSAT.

just use one trick: articulate in your mind why you think its the right answer before clicking. once you click, dont click on another answer unless you can articulate in one sentence why the other answer is right. this solves the problem completely. its just a rule you start using.

a big thank you to my LLB degree for this one

@Peter888 I was talking about and to the OP who said their "brain is deep fried" after work, not making a general statement about all people. But good to hear that worked for you.

You're definitely burning out. You need time to digest as well as study, and post-work studying when you're exhausted isn't good. Go for weekends or wake up earlier.

so I misread E where "same general methods that are used in physics" meant, to me, "principles used in physics" and therefore the principle of complementarity. Because of that, I thought that PASSAGE A = agreed with this over PASSAGE D, and excluded it. How do I avoid this issue in the future? How do I understand what is meant by a category better?

@HunkyMunky I can't RN but look up the episode "getting personal with personal statements" it should be one of them

there's a really good harvard/yale admissions podcast episode about a personal statement revolving around the applicant's relationship to catholicism you can take perspective from

what do you mean by objective? You just have to engage with the idea in reference to those perspectives. You could agree or disagree with either one but you don't need to point it out.

I work professionally as a writer and can offer help! I'd appreciate if you could write testimony afterwards since I've been trying to freelance edit in general. It'd take me around a week.

I wrote about some really depressing things in my PS and went to an essay workshop at 7sage, plus I've listened to some admissions podcasts that gave me perspective. From all that I've learned

• no whining, you only explain the hardship as reason for growth or perspective, not as merely painful.

• mention it professionally in a matter-of-fact way without flowery prose or explicit detail. they don't want to hear that.

• maintain perspective on how serious that "bad thing" is - is it a common illness? grief in general? rape? parent's divorce? watching someone be murdered in front of you? surviving a shooting?

• i watched UMich's application review of two PS that did this badly. One was about using a common medical device for a temporary health condition as traumatic and embarassing. Another was about a distant relative getting a condition from a vaccine and having to go to community college instead of a more expensive university. I've heard some say that being overly negative even about being a second gen / arrived in childhood immigrant can sound bad on you if you dont balance these things out.

i'd also strongly encourage you to explore a different topic instead of the same one over two essays, if you can. or if you can't, to frame it as more positive in one (for example if you're talking about the struggled of being an URM, or a valuable perspective from growing up lower class, or how something built resilience or allowed you to connect w/ others)

Yes, 7sage did a post on this that you can google and find (I am too lazy to link) TLDR; you give up the ability to negotiate for scholarships in exchange for that boost.

Listen to the harvard/yale law school admissions podcast and a2z with dean z podcast, they have episodes where they evaluate applications and you can see how they weigh softs based on that. IDK if it's the same for every school but if the ones you're interested talk about holistic admissions and emphasize that, it may be similar.

@TeklaCo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_and_only_if

Why would it not be the reality? Writing is an important part of practicing law, so people being admitted to the t14 probably already have some baseline skill. I like the ones on 7sage if you look up essay bank or "7sage essays that got into harvard." A lot of them are about fairly mundane things but still very effectively done, whether or not the person has a hard story. My favourite was "Sea Turtles"

@cmonc093 Two kids under four and fulltime work sounds like so much! Good luck I hope the 10 months period works out for you. Slow and steady is honestly best and what worked for me. Good luck!

@BrynnaM I loved this comment and especially the second one. I wish it could go right at the top because it's such a good point! I totally get it, ESPECIALLY the commute because I also had a 2-2.5 hour each way daily commute 😭 Thankfully not anymore, I don't think I'd be able to cope at all if that was the case. Hang in there, good luck with all of it, and the drilling bit is a great piece of advice.

@ripleyschultz Thank you so much for the perspective about how it's only a month out! It's hard to remember that. and the reminder to rest :) I hope others see it and take it to heart too because last LSAT I seriously burned myself out and didn't score as high as I wanted / could. Good luck to you!

@kubieja It's been over a year now but yeah that's where I'm at, just studying on my 30 min unpaid break daily and then devoting my weekends to it. Good luck to you as well :)

@JulieeJuliee Oh that's a really good point. I saw someone else in the comments describe it as equal to the load of law school so I'm hoping I'm building endurance then. Good luck between it all :)