M Hope Echales

M Hope Echales

Hope is a graduate of Grinnell College with a Bachelor’s degree in political science and biology. She spent her post-college years working with anti-poverty nonprofits and dabbling in academic publishing before earning a 170 on the LSAT and accidentally falling in love with an exam. She’s been working with Blueprint since 2019.
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Calculate Your LSAT-Flex Score!

News dropped today that clarified how the at-home LSAT-Flex exam will be scored. Long story short -- the Logical Reasoning section factors a little bit less into your overall score on the LSAT-Flex than it normally does, and the Logic Games and Reasoning Comp sections factor a little bit more. Plus, there's the whole business about the LSAT-Flex having just three scored sections -- one fewer than the traditional four on a normal LSAT. All of this raises a crucial question: how the heck do you take practice exams to prepare for this LSAT-Flex?
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The LSAT and COVID-19

Remember when you said, “2020 is going to be my year!” Yeah, us too. This year has been a wild ride, and it’s only March. This was the week we should have been talking about last-minute tips to prepare for…

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Study? At MY desk??

Hello from the isolation of my apartment, where I’m maintaining a comfortable six feet of social distance between me and my cats. Not to make light of what is a very serious problem: everything from colleges and universities to major…

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