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Pulling LSAT score up?? |
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I agree |
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05/08/2002 |
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Most folks improve a number of points when they take a prep course. LSAT is a key to law school admissions, but
with good GPA and only reasonable LSAT scores, you'll get into someplace workable. On this board, folks make the LSAT such an obsession that each LSAT results brings posts which read generally "I was practice testing at 173, but I only got a 155. What can I do?". Although the real problem is not the poster, but instead the excess weighting of LSAT, I think that folks get too obsessed
about it. You want to score high on the LSAT because it matters to school admissions,and law school rank matters in law firm hiring. But you have to recognize it for what it is--a test that rewards certain skills more akin to game-playing than to aptitude for law. Seriously try to learn the game and get a high score.
But don't psych yourself out so that your self-worth is tied up in that silly test.
It's a game you want to win, but winnning or losing that game won't tell you much
about how you'll be as a lawyer. It'll just define how much of an advantage you get out of the blocks as a law student. Good luck on the LSAT. |
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I took Kaplan for my LSAT. Prior to the exam, I was scoring in the high 150s to low 160s. On the actual day of the test, everything went off without any problems.
Well... I earned a 143. Despite having all the usual awards ( i.e. dean's list, president of Golden Key, etc.) I was only able to get into a 4th tier law school. After the first year my grades in law school put my class rank high enough to be able to transfer to a couple 2nd tier law schools.
It's been two years since law school graduation and I can tell you that no matter what your LSAT score is ( yes it cam affect your first year chances ) is is not the final word on your career and value as a lawyer.
My wife and I know plenty of millionare lawyers in New York who went to the 4th tier law schools and I would be willing to bet that their LSAT scores were not above the 170 mark.
Just relax, take your time, and remember that you already have the talent to be accepted by law schools and to earn high grades once your finally studying law. To paraphrase professor Whitebread from USC...
just remember, the [LSAT] is just an exam; that's all it is; it's nothing else.
Best of luck to you.
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