A Pearl and Some Cringey Personal Statements (Ep. 317)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Today on the show, Nathan and Ben uncover a rare pearl of LSAT wisdom. This listener-submitted advice promotes a deeper understanding of the test and can be applied to both Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension. The guys also relay some important announcements from LSAC and discuss why September is the best time to submit law school applications. Then, they review some cringey personal statements and wrap up with another list of rule violations.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains bad language not bad at language like Trump's lawyers bad language like naughty words |
| 0:08.7 | cover your ears I guess Hello and welcome to episode 317 of The Thinking Elsap Podcast. |
| 0:21.0 | Today on the show we had an update from Elsack about testing dates and |
| 0:27.2 | deadline windows and all that type of stuff. A big email that came out from them |
| 0:31.6 | this week. |
| 0:32.8 | Yeah. We have a Pearls versus Tirds from S. I think it's actually a very valuable tip |
| 0:39.2 | about logical reasoning specifically, but I think you could probably apply it to reading comp as well maybe even |
| 0:46.4 | logic games basically about also a great story in there about hitting one eight yeah |
| 0:51.5 | right somebody who listen to our advice and is having very |
| 0:55.2 | good things happen so we appreciate that. Then we also dove into a whole bunch of personal statements. We tried to |
| 1:02.1 | stick to a limit of seven minutes apiece so we can get through as many as we can. |
| 1:06.3 | It was pretty cringy today, I gotta say. I did not find a lot of a lot to be enthusiastic about on today's personal statements but we will try again next week. |
| 1:17.3 | This show will air Monday September 27th of 2021 that means you have if you're listening to this on release day |
| 1:25.2 | you have two days to register for the November L-SAT the deadline there is on |
| 1:30.0 | September 29th. |
| 1:37.8 | That's the relevant date right now. |
| 1:41.3 | Come to my study group, please. If you're taking the October 2021 Elsat or you want to hang out with me |
| 1:44.6 | and a bunch of people who are taking the October 2021 Elsat I have a free class on |
| 1:50.0 | Zoom every Thursday at 4 p.m. Pacific 7 p 7 PM Eastern, and all you need is a free |
| 1:56.3 | Elsat demon account. So Elsat demon.com sign up for a free account and you can go |
| 2:00.6 | ahead and register for that free class that I teach every Thursday. |
| 2:05.0 | All right, let's dive into the show. |
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