So, I got my score. I did not do as well as I needed to. Are we able to see which answers we got wrong? I am registered to retake in Feb.

My college does not have that many government offices in town, and I have so far been only been able to work for my Congressman. I noticed others on this board listed their forthcoming manuscripts, work on a presidential campaign, and writing law briefs. Just how much work experience are you supposed to have? I will be graduating college before I turn 20 and don't have that many listings yet on my linkedin, in comparison to what others have posted.

Good afternoon (morning, night, whatever time of day is it for anyone reading this)

Been studying for the LSATs for quite some time now and I'm taking my first exam this Feb. My dream and target schools are UGA, Emory, GW, or UC Irvine. Long story short, I screwed up my grades during ugrad due to a family illness and having to work 40+ hours a week while supporting my family and my grades pretty much reflect that. First two(ish) years of ugrad I pretty much screwed up my gpa and finally got my cahoots together two or so years ago. My gpa did have an upward trend from that point on and I was able to raise my gpa almost an entire whole point.

With that being said, I realized I needed to make up for a below 25% gpa with a 75% lsat score. I started out with a 150~ range and I've been able to reach scores of 160-165 pretty consistently now. My goal is to get as close to a 170 as possible. I'm just a little discouraged still and I'm constantly looking at #'s and reports from schools figuring out if I even have a chance of attending the schools I dream of going to.

Never posted a discussion on here but just wanted some advice or tips from those of you who might have had the same scores and gpa as me and have been accepted. For reference, my ugrad gpa is a 2.86.

Thanks guys! :)

Just wanted to share this because it makes me laugh and think about how we can feel when we read LSAT question sometimes. I hope it puts a smile on your face too.

I just received a recruitment email from Stetson University with the subject "LSAT Scores Post Tomorrow: Get Ready to Start Applications!"

Do you guys think this is an accidental leak or just a desperate, untrue attention-grab? That email instantly made me so excited!!

Hey everyone,

Earlier today I received an email from UT Austin requesting a video interview. In terms of likelihood of admission, is anyone familiar with the implications of a school offering an interview? My LSAT is slightly above their 75th percentile and GPA is right at the 50th. Apart from that I'd say avg softs. Thanks!

Hey all!

The law schools applications have a section on education. I put in the high school and college info..but do I need to include my rankings and gpa for high school? I haven't been putting that in for some apps I've submitted b/c I honestly don't remember..I was my high school's salutatorian but beyond that I don't remember my gpa or anything.

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Hi, I am wondering if the addendum section (aka "Other Information") will be an appropriate place to write a diversity statement, since Emory provides no specifically designated space for that. Any advice will be helpful :)

I am on the starter pack which expires after I take the February LSAT. Extending it for six months is 74.99 which would end Aug 15 or so for me. Then I looked at upgrading but that only seemed to extend my access one month from when the original access expires on Feb 15? Please explain how the options work.

Probably, and most definitely may be just me on here, or in general who is not worried about this score. If anyone else is not as freaked out or anxious as I am, we're not alone? This LSAT for me was the 'testing of waters', studying with 7Sage for the past 6 months allowed for me to get the question stems, and the main "guts" of the LSAT. By this statement I mean that I took this test willingly knowing my score may come out as worst as possible, however I came out of the exam KNOWING the main criteria... what the LR questions were, how to approach them, how JY taught me to quickly determine what kind of stem they were using. Therefore, I successfully got my main worry/concern of whether or not I should really bother continuously study for the February LSAT or not. Due to my understanding the actual test itself, even after the PT's, nothing is close to the real thing, and sitting there in the room. 7Sage gave me the confidence to persist on for the next LSAT with more ease than ever imagined. Now I am going over each part of the test and units in the curriculum with a fine toothed comb, and will be even more relaxed and actually excited for my score to come in. As for the December 2017 test goes, I had about 7-10 minutes left each section, which is great because that's how I knew JY took these tests, circling the ones we are not completely sure on, realizing when spending too much time on a question means MOVE ON, and finally... being able to go over those questions for even more than just twice.

I was confident with the time, that was a big worry; checked off the box.

I was nervous about not answering each questions/stalling and in a time-sink; that too was checked off the box.

I was fine with knowing what the question stems were; BIGGEST check off the box.

Finally, I was okay with whatever score is coming my way that "my real" test was in February. That will be my time to freak.

I may be the only one to feel these things, and to understand how it may look on my apps but mostly, it is better to be realistic and know when it is indeed your time to thrive on this damn test.

Good luck to those from this (Dec) test, and for those with a little more of a ways to go...

So I was stupid (yes) and emailed a recommender pretty late in the game (as in, I emailed him this week).

Right now I have

-1 academic ref.

-1 professional ref.

-1 supplementary ref. (helped me with a HS project which required a mentor, kept in touch)

I graduated in 2014 so I feel like deans will expect that I have at least one more academic reference. I had someone in mind but found out something about their personal life that about a week or two ago that made me decide not to ask them for a letter. So I thought about who else to ask, and finally thought of my other professor, "Jack", since he wrote me a letter for studying abroad my senior year.

Anyway, I know it's Christmas but I emailed "Professor Jack" on Monday and have not heard back yet. School is out and the grading week just ended a day ago.

What should I do? Following up right now seems unnecessary/rude but I'm panicking. I plan to submit apps mid-January. I gave Prof. Jack the deadline of Jan. 15.

I have another professor "Prof. Mark" who wrote me a letter my senior year that he noted I could use for "future use" but it was not terribly exciting and I would still need to ask him to update it. Not even sure how to ask him for that but I suppose it could be an option?

I got accepted at a law school, but they were more of a backup in case I don’t get in anywhere else. What do I do to tell a school thank you but I’m not interested?

I have two pending publications. I've spent over two years of research to complete them. I would really like to include them on my resume, but don't know if that's appropriate, or how to include them. Please help!

There is a rule I am not able to understand and how I would write it out as a rule during my sketch. I believe it is a hybrid game...sequencing and not sure what else.

In a game disallowing ties: B appears before C, or B appears before D, but not both.

I wrote out the rule as B...C OR D...B but this doesn't clearly explain the rule and I will most likely continue to be confused. How can I better understand rules in this nature and what would be a better way to sketch it.

I've already spoken to a few of you on the forum, but just wanted to see what others thought as well:

Would it be best for me to submit my application to law schools before or after the December score comes out?

I've already taken the LSAT before and didn't do too well. So I was going to write an addendum.

However, if I didn't do too well on the December test, then I don't think I should submit an addendum.

But if I wait to apply until my December score comes out, would that be "too late" and hurt my chances of getting accepted?

Or, do I go ahead and apply now without an addendum?

Please help! Thank you all so much for all your help.

I'm a junior at FIT and plan on going to law school when I graduate. I'm wondering whether T-15 law schools place a lot of emphasis on where one went for undergrad. I originally decided to go to FIT because I thought I wanted to work in fashion but over the last couple years I've decided to completely change career paths and become a lawyer. I was originally a Fashion Business major and then I switched to my current major, International Trade & Marketing.I take all business, political science, and gen-ed types of classes. I've managed to obtain quite a high GPA (3.75) and only expect it to go higher. I hope to have an LSAT score to match. Since I didn't go to a traditional type of college, will law schools not look favorably at me or is it to my benefit that I'm not the most traditional of applicants?

Hey guys so im not sure if I am suppose to put a title on my personal statement, need some help here.

I just read a post that says if you are choosing between going to Loyola and UC Hastings, you just shouldnt go to law school at all, because you won't get a job.

I've worked at two mid-size law firms. One of which worked on celebrity cases and filed suits against major corporation, another works with almost every big hospital in California and many out of state and even out of the country.

At the firmwhich worked for celebrities, the incoming young attorneys started off as unpaid interns. I'm dead serious they were "attorney interns," I posted the job ads. One of the interns went to USC Law. A USC student was desperate enough to take that "job".

At the firm which works for hospitals, one law clerk from a top 50 UC was not hired on as an attorney after passing the bar, and one law clerk was hired on as an attorney coming from a bottom ranked school (like 150). She now has a nice office and she moved into the really bougie super expensive nearby apartment complex.

At both firms, the partners and attorneys who make 100k+ most all went to bottom tier schools.

My point is that, it doesnt seem like going to a good school = you get an amazing job...obviously its the best bet to try to get into a T15, but not everyone has that option.

I've already sent out my apps and I likely will get into a top 60 school, which to me seems pretty good. Not stellar, but good. I wasnt intending on retaking the LSAT and waiting another year because I will go nuts continuing to work f/t at my current job and continuing to live w my parents.

Based on TLS posts, I shouldn't even be applying to law school.

My question isnt specific to my situation, I'm just wondering if its really not worth it to go to law school if you dont get into a top school?

There are school in Boston, NY, DC, Seattle that I might be able to get into, but I cant imagine moving out of California. And would those out of CA schools even have job prospects in California ie in the Bay Area? Just seems like a huge move...

I applied to some reach t15 schools that I'm a splitter for and some top 50 schools I should get in to with merit$ (all in CA)...wondering if I should spread my net out of state to some t20-t30...

Hi all,

Just went onto OLSAS (for those who don't know, it's the Canadian system where you submit law school applications in Ontario) because I heard that the calculation they make for your GPA went up.

...... It says I have a 3.48 GPA. I've heard that OLSAS can bring down people's GPA, but I graduated my university "With Distinction" which meant that I had an overall 80%+ average over my four years at uni. According to the OLSAS chart, that should warrant a 3.7 GPA. (I am in column #3 - https://www.ouac.on.ca/guide/olsas-conversion-table/)

I'm pretty nervous because I relied on having that GPA as a strong part of my application, as I know I won't be getting a super competitive score on the LSAT. I've already messaged OLSAS but they haven't gotten back to me yet.

Has anyone had experience with this? Is this the GPA that Canadian law schools use to consider your application, or do they still calculate it themselves/look at your transcript?

Financially I cannot right now, but if I upgrade from Starter in, say, March, to the Ultimate, and I purchased Starter the first week of December, will that extend me 3 months to June?

Hello!

I've been studying on and off the last few years for the LSAT, and I am seriously committing the last few weeks before the February LSAT to study (yes, I know it is not recommended). Is there anyone else in the same or similar situation as I am?

I have been having doubts because I GPA and LSAT score are hugely correlated. I am having doubts about whether I will be able to push my LSAT score past where it is now (162) and I want to know what other people's thoughts are. In particular, splitters, I want to know how your experience was studying for the LSAT and getting a 170+ score. I want to get there by June. How realistic is that? Should I just take what I get in June.

Hi,

Just wondering if people on here know any games similar to games 2/3 that were on the December LSAT.

Game #2 was a conditional sequencing game.

Game #3 was a weird in/out game that I found challenging, even though I usually have don't have troubles with them.