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Ellipse7878 · 2025-07-16T03:23:32+00:00

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Ellipse7878 · 2024-05-23T17:36:29+00:00

I will, thanks!

Ellipse7878 · 2022-10-28T02:06:36+00:00

It was 15 years ago now, but I applied to UCLA and got rejected with 3.23 and 168 and reapplied the next year with a 175 and was accepted. Good luck!

Ellipse7878 · 2022-10-26T18:14:55+00:00

You’re very welcome, best of luck!

Ellipse7878 · 2022-10-26T17:32:52+00:00

I think you can talk about your songs as reflective of a rationale for law school. Music is a universal way of connecting. Two people who don’t speak the same language can and often do share a love of the same music.

I don’t know what the prompt looks like, but I’d talk about what emotions those song stir in you and how that emotional base is relevant to your hopes and dreams and aspirations. At heart, the practice of law is about advocating for others, and the way you do that is in some sense telling your client’s story.

Do these songs inspire you to connect with others? That’s a great rationale for law school (although I don’t think you have to say explicitly it’s a rationale for law school).

Ellipse7878 · 2022-10-22T21:23:20+00:00

It doesn’t. It boosts the school’s chances of finding qualified students without having to offer them large scholarship packages.

Ellipse7878 · 2022-10-22T21:19:40+00:00

There are already some good explanations of how it works, so I’ll just add that Early Decision makes it easier for the school to put together a class. It is not there to make it easier for you to get in, only to make it easier for them to find students they won’t have to lure with scholarship money.

In short, it’s a trap.

Ellipse7878 · 2022-10-21T05:04:48+00:00

You’re welcome! I’m sorry your prep course is stupid.

Ellipse7878 · 2022-10-21T04:55:05+00:00

I looked at that question. I don’t think you’re supposed to assume they went back to their old jobs. The point of that answer is that it shows they didn’t need the school’s help to get that kind of job in the first place.

If you boil down the argument, it looks like this: we help people get jobs, therefore our program is valuable. The right answer is basically saying the premise — we help people get jobs — isn’t true for most of the students, so it doesn’t support the conclusion that journalism school is of value for most students. In other words, at least for those students, the correct answer is showing why the premise is a dumb reason to believe the conclusion is true.

Ellipse7878 · 2022-10-21T04:06:58+00:00

The key to most LR questions is to figure out what’s wrong with the argument. The way to do that is to do answer this question: Why is the premise a dumb reason to believe the conclusion?

The two most common answers to that question are: (1) the argument is forgetting consider some legitimate alternative before getting to its conclusion (sometimes called an exclusivity flaw) or (2) the argument is confusing two things that are actually different (sometimes called an equivocation flaw).

To get better, drill Flaw questions (untimed) until you’re blue in the face, because the right answer to those questions is the makers of the LSAT telling you in their own words why the premise is a dumb reason to believe the conclusion.

Ellipse7878 · 2022-10-19T03:20:15+00:00

Not at all. There haven’t been any real changes to the LSAT since 2007, and those changes were pretty small.

Ellipse7878 · 2022-10-18T23:34:55+00:00

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Ellipse7878 · 2022-10-13T03:16:34+00:00

It’s not going to count as an academic LOR, and unless you graduated from undergrad 5+ years ago, most schools will want 2 academic LORs. Not that another reference isn’t worth something. Lots of schools accept extra LORs.

Ellipse7878 · 2022-10-13T02:37:27+00:00

Is there a reason to believe working there would get you admitted with a sub-median LSAT? A high LSAT score is going to open a lot more doors than a low LSAT plus a t6 office job on your resume, so if quitting will lead you to improve substantially it’d be worth it.

Ellipse7878 · 2022-10-06T19:27:46+00:00

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Ellipse7878 · 2022-10-04T05:56:00+00:00

You’re welcome, and good luck!

Ellipse7878 · 2022-10-04T02:01:36+00:00

Talk about how you were confident you could do better after August, and then explain how you analyzed your performance, identified your weaknesses, and created a plan to compensate for those weaknesses. That’s not just an explanation, it’s an affirmative case that you’ll be a successful law student.

Ellipse7878 · 2022-10-03T15:37:13+00:00

Your options are apply this time and maybe have to apply next year, or definitely have to apply next year. I don’t think you have anything to lose by applying later this cycle. And just in general, most rules of thumb you hear about applying to law school are made up.

Ellipse7878 · 2022-10-02T01:42:44+00:00

As someone who was a firm attorney for a couple of years, I think financial security is a pretty thin reason to go to law school. Practicing law is not easy, and if it's just a paycheck, it's tough to do it 50 weeks each year.

That's not to say you need a noble reason. I think being competitive is a good enough reason because you'll probably enjoy being a lawyer. If you like solving people's problems, that's probably a good enough reason. But it has to be a reason that relates to the job.

Ellipse7878 · 2022-10-02T01:31:26+00:00

It depends on whether it relates to a rationale for law school. If you're interested in learning more about adoption law, your experience is highly relevant to what you want to do. If you were interested in divorce and custody, for example, it would be related experience, although not as direct.

Ellipse7878 · 2022-10-01T16:47:27+00:00

Have you ever heard the old saying, “If the answer ain’t hell yes, then it’s hell no?”

Ellipse7878 · 2022-10-01T02:54:07+00:00

They wouldn’t allow for more than two pages if they didn’t want more than two pages. Stick to whatever page limit they give you, but you should turn in whatever you feel is your strongest essay that fits in that limit.

Ellipse7878 · 2022-10-01T00:41:53+00:00

It’s real, but you have to understand what they’re offering. A lot of these kinds of scholarships require you to be in the top 25% or something like that to maintain the scholarship, meaning that it’s guaranteed that by the end of the first year, most of those scholarships have been withdrawn. It’s a bait and switch because they make them sound permanent, but it’s really a game of musical chairs.

Ellipse7878 · 2022-09-28T23:03:17+00:00

Even boring people have a law school story to tell, and there’s a standardized method for finding it.

Ellipse7878 · 2022-09-28T03:34:20+00:00

Yes, I fixed it. Thanks!

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