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re: Those here that have taken the LSAT..
Posted on 10/15/20 at 2:48 pm to texag7
Posted on 10/15/20 at 2:48 pm to texag7
Studied hard for a month and did light studying for a month. Took it last week, i'll let you know.
I just used old practice test and youtube videos. Those prep course run anywhere from 700-1k. frick that.
I just used old practice test and youtube videos. Those prep course run anywhere from 700-1k. frick that.
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Posted on 10/15/20 at 2:52 pm to texag7
Robin is sitting in between Michael and John. Robin is wearing a red hat and blue jeans. Michael is wearing a blue hat and black pants. John is wearing a white hat and black shoes. If Robin moves to sit next to John, changes in to blue pants, and if Michael removes his hat, how many chicken nuggets did John eat for lunch?
Posted on 10/15/20 at 2:55 pm to texag7
If you are actually interested in going to law school and being a lawyer, I cannot stress how important the LSAT is unless all you want to do is hang a shingle. The difference between getting a 170 and going to UVA and getting a 160 and going to LSU is so marked that it cannot be overstated. The simple attendance at UVA or Yale or Harvard or what have you is enough to open more doors than graduating top 10 at LSU, particularly in the big law context. So if you want to go to the big firm and use that as a spring board to your career, study all you can in order to get the highest score you can to get you in the best possible school.
Now it is not a measure of success at that school. Nor is it a measure of how good you will be as a lawyer. I know plenty of T-14 educated lawyers who are mediocre. But they made a ton of money starting out and had doors opened to them because they got jobs at Sidley or VE or Dentons or Cadwalader or whatever. And then they could fail upward instead of downward. Because no one in that strata of law wants to admit to failure. So if you suck, the firm will likely help you get a job elsewhere to get you the hell out of the firm. So it’s really important to do well on the LSAT to provide yourself with safety net after safety net.
Now it is not a measure of success at that school. Nor is it a measure of how good you will be as a lawyer. I know plenty of T-14 educated lawyers who are mediocre. But they made a ton of money starting out and had doors opened to them because they got jobs at Sidley or VE or Dentons or Cadwalader or whatever. And then they could fail upward instead of downward. Because no one in that strata of law wants to admit to failure. So if you suck, the firm will likely help you get a job elsewhere to get you the hell out of the firm. So it’s really important to do well on the LSAT to provide yourself with safety net after safety net.
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Posted on 10/15/20 at 2:56 pm to FiddleHead
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I just used old practice test and youtube videos. Those prep course run anywhere from 700-1k. frick that
Piggybacking off my prior post, that may well be the best $1000 you ever spent. If nothing else, it could get you thousands of dollars in scholarship money. If you need it, take the class. $1000 in the grand scheme of a life of making money is a pittance.
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Posted on 10/15/20 at 3:02 pm to texag7
Didn't study and got a 157. Took a prep course and got a 162 on my next try. Take a class, 5 points can get you a full scholarship somewhere.
Posted on 10/15/20 at 3:02 pm to LoveThatMoney
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LoveThatMoney
What he said is true. LSAT doesn't correlate well with law school/lawyer potential. But it does determine what schools you get into. If you have ambitions outside of small town law (or Louisiana), people will look at what school you went to at the beginning of your career. Tier 3 graduates who didn't finish in the top 5 of their class aren't making 6 figures out of law school. T-14 graduates who are middle-of-the-pack are probably starting at 160k (but likely with significantly more debt, mind you). What you make at the start probably doesn't have much influence over what you're making 20 years later, though. That's on you and luck
Posted on 10/15/20 at 3:07 pm to Major Dutch Schaefer
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I recommend you take a review course.
I recommend he doesn’t take it at all and instead does something else. Others may love the profession, I don’t. So far gone and down the rabbit hole now, I’m a lifer.
Unless this is something you really, really want to do I’d be super cautious. Especially if your the one on the hook for the loans.
Posted on 10/15/20 at 3:16 pm to LoveThatMoney
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If you are actually interested in going to law school and being a lawyer, I cannot stress how important the LSAT is unless all you want to do is hang a shingle. The difference between getting a 170 and going to UVA and getting a 160 and going to LSU is so marked that it cannot be overstated. The simple attendance at UVA or Yale or Harvard or what have you is enough to open more doors than graduating top 10 at LSU, particularly in the big law context. So if you want to go to the big firm and use that as a spring board to your career, study all you can in order to get the highest score you can to get you in the best possible school.
The "it doesn't matter where you go" thing just will not die despite it not being true for broad swaths of undergrad and grad work
It's sure as hell not true in law.
Posted on 10/15/20 at 3:24 pm to texag7
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I’ve read the avg study time is only around 150-250 hours
Posted on 10/15/20 at 3:41 pm to LSUtiger17
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T-14 graduates who are middle-of-the-pack are probably starting at 160k (but likely with significantly more debt, mind you)
Honestly, given how much some of these schools have in endowments, I don’t know how much less debt you will have. Unless you score a 170 and get into LSU for free or have to pay $40,000 a year at Duke (presuming they only give you a partial scholarship) and you decide to go to LSU.
Posted on 10/15/20 at 3:50 pm to texag7
Weren’t you the one that sent racist messages to University of Texas recruits and got busted?
Yeah bud I don’t think the state bar will be keen on admitting you even if you graduated and passed the bar.
Maybe welding is more your speed.
Yeah bud I don’t think the state bar will be keen on admitting you even if you graduated and passed the bar.
Maybe welding is more your speed.
This post was edited on 10/15/20 at 3:53 pm
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