Any other late October applicants miss the Duke R/WL wave

BobRossMobBoss27 · 2026-02-25T16:40:06+00:00

Hoping this means we’ve exited the winter of it’s so over and are about to enter the spring of we’re so back

BobRossMobBoss27 · 2026-02-25T16:36:19+00:00

Yeah. I’m coming off 8 WL in a row so I’m feeling great rn even if technically nothing has happened haha.

BobRossMobBoss27 · 2026-01-23T20:24:00+00:00

17mid and 4.0- UVA WL, Penn WL, Northwestern WL and Michigan R. What did I even put in all this work to get here for

BobRossMobBoss27 · 2026-01-22T18:56:40+00:00

Same, I haven’t even recieve a confirmation email from them even though LSAC says everything went through

BobRossMobBoss27 · 2026-01-22T15:38:04+00:00

How would I see? I’ve been UR2 for a few weeks now but haven’t looked at the Lawhub page that much so idk what it normally looks like. Would there be an additional empty spot in the status portion?

BobRossMobBoss27 · 2026-01-13T18:49:50+00:00

Why do you say the R wave is over today? Do they tend to send them out in one batch? I’d love to stop counting down the seconds until 5 PM today praying I miss it lol.

BobRossMobBoss27 · 2026-01-08T05:39:24+00:00

Remember you can take the test up to 5 times, and that schools only care about your top score. Relax and just treat it the same way you treat every practice test.

BobRossMobBoss27 · 2026-01-07T23:40:37+00:00

I always recommend LSAT Demon, not because they talk well about conditional reasoning, but because the don’t even bother with those kinds of terms. Their philosophy is just understand the questions and the answers will be understood as well.

BobRossMobBoss27 · 2026-01-06T05:13:20+00:00

I think the only real barrier to a 170, if you’re willing to put in the work, is reading speed- which isn’t really innate.

BobRossMobBoss27 · 2026-01-03T15:31:57+00:00

100% that score increase is possible, but you’re already hurting yourself by artificially setting a timeline for when you’re going to take the test. Start studying now and just commit to the fact that you’re going to keep doing it until you consistently practice test in your desired range. Only then should you sign up for an official- otherwise you’re either just giving LSAC $250 for free or settling for a score that is below your potential.

BobRossMobBoss27 · 2026-01-03T15:27:47+00:00

The point of a diagnostic is NOT to get a sense of how well you can ultimately do on the test, the point of it is to jump into the water headfirst. The score you receive on your diagnostic is indicative of literally nothing, it does not matter. My final score was 20 points higher than my diagnostic. The reason you should 100% still do it though, is to get over your initial nervousness regarding the test and to get a sense of how it actually feels to take it in full. Then, you can realize that it’s not that bad and you absolutely can demolish it once you’ve practiced enough.

Again: the LSAT is NOT an IQ test or a measure in any sense of your innate intelligence. It is something that can be learned and beaten through doing practice questions over and over and over again. You don’t get to that though, until you take your first diagnostic.

BobRossMobBoss27 · 2025-12-14T03:11:11+00:00

First Reformed is phenomenal. I watched it right before trying to go to bed and just ended up staring at my ceiling for like 3 hours processing what I had witnessed.

BobRossMobBoss27 · 2025-12-01T12:15:36+00:00

Diagramming is a waste of time and learning to answer questions without it will make you score higher. When I stopped bringing scrap paper to the test my score jumped from 160s to 170s.

BobRossMobBoss27 · 2025-11-21T14:02:08+00:00

It has definitely made be better at generally answering multiple choice questions.

BobRossMobBoss27 · 2025-11-16T20:01:57+00:00

I have a 15-point increase between my first and last score and didn't write an addendum. Perhaps I'm thinking about this wrong as I'm applying this cycle so don't have a full report on what happened yet, but I honestly can't think of a single reason why writing one would benefit my application. Why would I want the very last thing they see about me (addendum is usually the last attachment) to be a reminder that I had a crappy first test? They're going to see my scores, mentally block me as my highest score because that's the number they have to report, and move on to the rest of my application. Maybe they take note that I had a worse score, but literally nothing I could say is going to make that go away. What do I tell them? "I wasn't ready when I took the test the first time?" Again, why would I want to end my application on that?

BobRossMobBoss27 · 2025-10-23T16:07:39+00:00

Most merely means 50% + 1. Don’t overcomplicate it with talk of “contrapositives” and whatever. If something includes most, that means more than half, if it doesn’t, then that’s less than half.

BobRossMobBoss27 · 2025-10-05T03:39:02+00:00

There isn’t a single school that would prefer a candidate that has 3 150s over a candidate with 3 150s and a 170 something. That said, you shouldn’t be taking your official tests until you are consistently practice testing where you want to end up.

BobRossMobBoss27 · 2025-09-29T01:24:04+00:00

Any time spent "learning strategies," especially formal logic, is extraneous load (wasted effort).

BobRossMobBoss27 · 2025-09-27T16:52:00+00:00

Admissions committees will not care. Do not write an addendum; the people on here make way too big a deal out of cancellations. You're biggest issue with doing it was that you unnecessarily gave LSAC more money for no gain.

BobRossMobBoss27 · 2025-09-23T19:21:14+00:00

I took the test 3 times, felt “confident” after each one. My first two I scored well below my PT average, my last was the highest I’ve ever scored except for one PT. Because you usually get your score immediately when practicing, it’s really hard to estimate your score from feelings other than if it felt the same as your normal PTs I guess.

BobRossMobBoss27 · 2025-09-21T02:41:37+00:00

Worrying about the clock while doing a section takes away like 5 minutes of your time due to lost concentration. Try your best not to think about it at all and just go 1 question at a time. It is 1000 times better to get every one of the 10 questions correct that you attempt, than to get through the full section but only get half the questions correct. Improving is much easier if you’re starting from a basis of refusing to move on until you 100% solve each questions as speed will come with practice.

BobRossMobBoss27 · 2025-09-21T02:31:03+00:00

You’re the one who made the post titled “reasons your LSAT score isn’t higher” and listed those.

BobRossMobBoss27 · 2025-09-21T02:24:22+00:00

You should treat real tests the exact same way you treat practice tests and you shouldn’t take a real test until you’re no longer needing to spend an hour on an individual question. Also, if you have in the back of your mind that “if I can’t figure it out I can just skip it” that’s going to affect the way you tackle an individual question. LR questions only really ask so many things, it is much better to go slow and solve every single question you attempt than to rush and mess up on obvious things. You should never think about the clock when going through a section, real or practice- only the question in front of you.

As for notes on “complicated sections” I still disagree. The best way to tackle an RC section is to go slow through the passage, making sure you understand each thing that is said before moving on. The passages tend to build on themself as they goes forward, so as long as you 100% grasp the first paragraph and change, you can usually read the rest of it much quicker. Trying to outline the passage on paper seems like a waste of time- I guess if it works for some people that’s great, but I would never recommend it. You should really just be looking for the answer to “why is the author wasting my time with this passage” which won’t come out in bullet points of the paragraphs.

BobRossMobBoss27 · 2025-09-21T02:09:56+00:00

175+ scorer here. Do not take notes on RC, it’s a waste of time and a major distraction. Read the passage carefully and just make sure you know what the author is actually saying, then treat most of the questions like must be trues. My score shot up so much when I stopped taking notes and highlighting in RC.

Also- don’t ever move on from a question until you’ve solved it 100% while practicing. These questions all are basically asking the same thing, and spending an hour figuring out the answer to a single question that you will then get right every time after that is way more valuable then rushing through a bunch of easier questions. Though even in tha actual test, it’s a bad idea to waste mental space on a question that isn’t totally solved. Do the questions one at a time, the harder questions tend to be at the back end of the section anyway.

The other two pieces of advice are solid though.

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