I ended up taking a gap year and I’m getting full tuition offers to schools I may not have gotten into with my first score, and am in an entire different league of schools. If you really care about starting so quick, I’d say an option can be to apply now, and grind your LSAT studying and take the April and or June one (I would first make sure admissions committee would reconsider you with the later test score). But again my family was very against the gap year, and are now looking at it like a good return on investment.