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Dec 21, 2009
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like… Winter LSAT Time

Happy Hanukkah. Merry Christmas. Good Kwanzaa. Despite the various salutations that are necessary to remain culturally sensitive these days, I refuse to be one of the non-committal pansies that resort to Happy Holidays. In the land of LSAT students and law school applicants, the holidays can be a very busy time of year.

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Dec 09, 2009
The Law School Application To Do List

In addition to heading to Vegas in every spare moment and searching for the perfect beard trimmer, Dave provides application consulting for Blueprint LSAT Preparation. “Now you gushin’, ambulance rushin’ You to the hospital with a bad concussion Plus you hit four times but it hit yo spine Paralyzed waist down and ya wheelchair bound” […]

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Nov 02, 2009
Applying with a December LSAT

Lot’s of students are asking how their chance of admission would be impacted by applying with a December score.  Most Strongly Supported has a neat chart courtesy of LSAC: I’ll mostly associate myself with what Most Strongly Supported has to say since they are right on.  60% of applicants apply from January to the end […]

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Sep 30, 2009
When is the Best Time to Take the LSAT and Apply to Law School?

A perennial question on would-be JD’s minds is when to take the LSAT. Because the test is so important, the short answer is when you can score the best on the test (usually when you have the most free time to study for it). However, there are also application factors to consider. Most law schools […]

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Aug 27, 2009
Doogie Howser, J.D.

Doogie Howser, J.D. Earlier in the month, a story came out in the Orange County Register about a nineteen-year-old college graduate who will soon be attending Northwestern law school. While perhaps not quite as young as Kate, we’ve seen a smattering of twenty year olds taking the LSAT on their way to an early J.D. […]

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Aug 14, 2009
LSAT Writing Sample Driving You Crazy?

LSAT Writing Sample Driving You Crazy? A lot of people tend to forget, but the LSAT actually has six sections, not five. Everyone knows about the reading comp, double logical reasoning and the experimental (which can be any of the three), but like a short guy at a bar, the writing sample tends to go […]

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Aug 06, 2009
Guess What? You Should Study More for the LSAT.

Lots of people like to throw around the stats about your LSAT score and your GPA being the most important things in determining whether or not you will be accepted into any given law school.  If you thought I was going to in any way, shape or form refute that, I’m not; it’s totally true. […]

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Jun 29, 2009
Getting Good Law School Letters of Recommendation

If you’re planning on applying to law school this fall and have already taken the LSAT, you should be working on everything else now; getting letters of rec., writing your personal statement, explaining how that 1.9 GPA from your first quarter of school was from a “family illness.” If, however, you’re taking the LSAT this […]

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Feb 27, 2023
How to Find an LSAT-Life Balance

If you’ve been studying for the LSAT for a while now, you may be starting to feel the strain. Let me lay out a scenario for you…Your brain is in manic LSAT-mode all the time and you can’t ever relax. You go see “The Matrix,” but it’s not green 0s and 1s—it’s embedded conditional statements […]

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Feb 06, 2023
LSAT Myths Debunked

The LSAT, or Law School Admission Test, is a mysterious test. While most people understand the math, science, and reading requirements of the SAT and the ACT, the complex logic games and conditional statements of the LSAT are less familiar. Naturally, there is a lot of misinformation in the world about what the LSAT tests […]

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