A Fraternity Treasurer's Personal Statement (Ep. 306)

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2021

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Conclusions that are stated without sufficient evidence invite skepticism. To succeed on the LSAT, you need to be able to spot unwarranted conclusions and poke holes in weak arguments. On your personal statement, you’re the one making the argument. You want to demonstrate to the reader that you’re an ideal candidate for their law school. The best way to prove your case is to present indisputable evidence. State the facts, and allow the reader to draw their own conclusions about how great you are. On this week’s episode, Ben and Nathan review a fraternity treasurer’s personal statement that weighs a bit too heavily on conclusions. They offer constructive criticism that anyone writing a personal statement can learn from. The guys also break down an LSAT Conclusion question from PrepTest 73, and Nathan stumps Ben with a brainteaser. Read more on our website!

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0:00.0	The following podcast uses words that lawyers don't use in court even though they're thinking them.
0:07.0	Hello and welcome to episode 306 of the Thinking Elseat Podcast. Today on the show we talked
0:17.0	about a long personal statement that focused too much on a fraternity. What else did we talk about? We did a logical reasoning
0:25.6	question that was about a conclusion question that we thought was good, a good
0:30.3	question to get your mind wrapped around and that's all I remember.
0:36.8	Brain teaser.
0:37.8	Oh the brain teaser and I never got to it.
0:39.8	Oh shoot, well you're going to have to give me a night to think about it.
0:42.6	And maybe I can come up with a solution.
0:43.8	If I can't, then, oh well, fail.
0:47.2	But the brain teaser is on the show, and everybody,
0:50.7	you can play along at home with Ben's brain teaser that he did not solve immediately.
0:56.6	Neither did I.
0:57.6	So I, but it'll be interesting to see if Ben comes up with it.
1:01.9	Yeah, well, and also I apparently forgot about it,
1:04.2	so maybe I was trying to suppress it on some level.
1:08.0	This will air on Monday, July 12th.
1:12.2	The August Elside is coming up. It's the week of, or Saturday, August 14th, a couple of days around there.
1:20.2	And the October Elsat registration deadline is August 25th.
1:25.0	If you have not joined Nathan's August 2021
1:28.6	Elsat study group, I would encourage you to do so.
1:31.6	That meets every Thursday at 7 p.m. Eastern time 4 p.m.
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