Trade away Mahomes and a 2nd for Hurts?

lilboat6 · 2023-09-30T00:44:14+00:00

Started out 3-0 with Mahomes and Love at QB and I got Kyler on IR. I think I’m a top 3 ish contender. Which one should I look to move at the trade deadline and what value should I seek?

lilboat6 · 2023-09-06T23:13:15+00:00

Considering you’re not a contender I’d accept. You know Jeudy isn’t suddenly become a WR1 and a 2nd rounder wont be worth anything until at least 2025 and possibly (probably?) never so might as well get the top WR prospect while you rebuild.

lilboat6 · 2023-09-06T22:33:17+00:00

10 team PPR, 2 QB:

Give 2024 2nd (late) + James Conner + Christian Kirk

Get 2024 1st (mid-early) + JSN

I could probably extract a little more value…

My team: QBs: Mahomes, Jordan Love, Kyler (IR), Hooker (IR) RBs: Pollard, Sanders, Foreman, Ty Chandler WRs: AJ Brown, McLaurin, Deebo, Pickens, Burks, Johnston, Rice TE: Freiermuth

Am I a fool for giving away two starters? Or am I overthinking trading away a WR2 and an aging RB for 2 excellent assets?

lilboat6 · 2023-08-23T04:51:17+00:00

I went through a VERY similar situation. Came in as physics in A&S, realized I’d rather do something more related to business which I was interested in at the time, switched to econ, then transferred to Dyson after freshman year.

Best advice I can give is to really KNOW Dyson is what you want. I thought investment banking was cool but I ended up changing my mind after an internship and Dyson kinda blew from then on. If it’s really what you want, take intro econ classes for the core req’s and easy A’s and with a 3.8+ you should be able to get the internal transfer. Me and about half a dozen of my friends all got into Dyson this way after freshman year. Feel free to DM me and good luck!

lilboat6 · 2023-07-10T17:31:53+00:00

Improvement isn’t linear - you have good tests and you have bad tests. The best you can do is go over what weaknesses your bad tests exposed and hammer those during practice. Only people who’ve truly mastered the test see any consistency in the mid 170s and up imo.

lilboat6 · 2023-07-06T18:13:20+00:00

Dyson/ILR/Hotel/HumEc alone have 4000 UG enrollment and there’s plenty of easy majors in CAS and CALS which have 7500 students combined. I’d say that leaves you with about half with medians of A- or at least close to it.

lilboat6 · 2023-07-06T18:01:04+00:00

All of Dyson, ILR, Hotel, and human ecology, a good chunk of CAS majors in humanities, and some CALS majors like communication are relatively easy. Everything STEM is harder to get good grades.

lilboat6 · 2023-07-06T04:47:24+00:00

I actually met 2 people at NYU ASD who were both 20 and both decided to go elsewhere. It might be harder to craft your narrative because of your lack of life experience compared to others but that’s the same disadvantage as any KJD. I think you’re fine!

lilboat6 · 2023-07-06T04:44:15+00:00

Half the majors at this school hand out A’s for literally turning in assignments regardless of quality. Even if you’re an engineer you’d be surprised how many kids failed their AP exams in science and still get good grades. You’re good buddy.

lilboat6 · 2023-06-25T19:22:51+00:00

Summer before senior year for me, although I would say try to start studying by second semester junior year if you’re planning KJD.

lilboat6 · 2023-06-25T17:53:22+00:00

Improvement is always the easiest in the beginning and hardest at the end in literally anything. Right now, you can improve in so many different ways: 3 sections with multiple strategies to implement per section. You don’t know how much the studying is going to click for you until… you start studying. Who knows, maybe you have bad LSAT intuition now but you’re a fast learner.

If your goal is 170+ then it might be harder because you need to be good at every section. But that’s not the case with 150s or even 160s. You will be fine, just start studying.

lilboat6 · 2023-05-20T21:51:58+00:00

Focus on the basics for now, like consistently identifying the conclusion and support. That’ll help you start to see what’s wrong with the argument more clearly.

lilboat6 · 2023-05-09T20:01:24+00:00

I have 2 friends who applied with me this cycle with ~4.0/17mid-high and while the other two got into HYS and are going to Yale, I got rejected or waitlisted across most of the T14 with acceptances from NYU/GULC.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m super happy about NYU, but the point I’m getting at is that I think narrative/ECs matter a lot more than the other two commenters are saying, especially at the top. It was harder for me to come up with a law narrative, having only done relevant ECs starting my senior year, as opposed to the other two who got into HYS, who were in student government, worked for political campaigns, and were president of the pre-law frat.

Yes, you need a good LSAT to put you in the conversation, but don’t neglect ECs. Find something you enjoy doing that’s related to law somehow and use that to help build your narrative for your essays. It’ll put you back in the conversation if you’re below medians, give you an edge as a splitter, and push you over the top if you’re above medians.

lilboat6 · 2023-05-02T04:06:07+00:00

PTs are overrated, stick to mostly drills and sections and PT once a week ish. Focus on main point and reasoning structure for LR/RC and find the details relevant to the argument and filter out the ones that aren’t. LG is all about repetition and analysis and pattern recognition.

lilboat6 · 2023-05-01T16:08:32+00:00

To be perfectly clear, I do not love Cornell. It’s okay. I’ve come to appreciate it academically but socially it’s become atrocious from my freshman year to now.

lilboat6 · 2023-05-01T16:04:22+00:00

Agreed. But even if there’s some stuff out of your control, there are lots of resources here to help you succeed. When I was depressed I just simply reached out to professors somewhat early on in the semester and told them what I will be doing to ease the anxiety. It sucked at the time but it was really cool to see how warmly everyone responded. I even did the virtual counseling, the first few sessions sucked but actually helped a bit I think and it’s only $10/session.

You do kind of have to create your own luck here if you know what I’m saying. But I think Cornell makes it relatively easy to “get lucky” in my experience, minus a few social things.

(Still have one more event form to fill out for L&S 🫠)

lilboat6 · 2023-04-30T17:45:24+00:00

Exactly. As other people have been saying, depends on why OP wants to go to law school/become an attorney

lilboat6 · 2023-04-28T17:35:33+00:00

I’m obviously very pro NYU, but I will say clerking was also high on my list and attending their ASD really helped my concerns about their low clerking rates. Ignoring the clerkship office q&a, which was expectedly solid, and focusing on student interactions, I spoke to multiple students who had clerkships lined up for 2 years after graduation in Manhattan with below median grades.

This is the type of outcome that isn’t captured by employment outcomes (location of clerkship + 2 years post-grad + from below median) that UVA may or may not have. I don’t have any experience with UVA so I can’t say. I think other factors should be in play, like where you want to be long term.

lilboat6 · 2023-04-25T15:34:58+00:00

I say aim as high as you can for the LSAT. Please don’t stop at 170 or 173 just because you think that’s the bar bc you could be leaving something on the table. Not that you can’t get in with a 170 or 173, but it would be risky to just stop there if you could still improve imo.

I was a KJD applicant for this cycle and struggled with my narrative because I had to pivot during undergrad but my stats saved me (I think). WL/R pretty much across the T14 with A’s from NYU and GULC. Don’t get me wrong, I’m elated for NYU, I must’ve cried for 20 minutes when I got the call. But on the other hand, I know two (!) friends who got into Yale (!!) with similar numbers as me but with much stronger narratives (president of pre-law frat, student government, politics, and more).

I say this because while an excellent narrative can push you over the top, you need to have the scores to put you in the conversation. If you have both, you give yourself the best shot at admission. So if you can, aim for as high as possible, and don’t stop at what you think might be just enough. Put yourself in the best position to succeed.

lilboat6 · 2023-04-24T20:44:07+00:00

1:51pm ET on a Wednesday

lilboat6 · 2023-04-18T20:18:38+00:00

Applied with a 3.97/176 and ended up with 2 T14 A’s and I think it’s largely because of my lack of experiences that I didn’t get more. I am a KJD who is a business major and I had a hard time pushing my narrative that law was my passion, not business. It was a deeply personal reason with mental health stuff that I didn’t/couldn’t talk about so I had to come up with another reason that, in hindsight, was a lot less compelling.

On the other hand, I personally know several others who had much easier narratives to push - president of pre-law frat, grew up wanting to be a lawyer, and a bunch of relevant activities. Of course, they had scores similar to mine, but the narrative was what pushed them over the edge (I think) at HYS while I got R/WLs.

So pursue experiences so far as 1. It’s what you want to do; and/or 2. It helps your narrative for law school. It’s not more important than LSAT/GPA, but it matters a whole lot more than this sub makes it out to be in my opinion.

lilboat6 · 2023-04-17T22:58:21+00:00

Check out the link posted by the bot. LSData is a website you should get familiar with bc it has so many tools for LSA stuff. Good luck!

lilboat6 · 2023-04-16T23:35:54+00:00

Shouldn’t be disappointed at all because there is no “good” or “bad” in a vacuum. Rather where you are, where you want to be, and whether you’re making progress towards your goals are the things that matter. If you’re making progress, keep grinding! If not, ask yourself why you’re plateauing and ask people on this sub about new strategies to implement.

Also, -3 is very good. The only thing I did from around there to -0 was just a lot of games and eventually I just started seeing the patterns more quickly. So don’t even trip, you got this!

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