Advice for International Applicants (Ep. 351)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2022
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
The LSAT is first and foremost a test of English reading comprehension. Strong English reading and reasoning skills are essential because lawyers in the United States are gladiators of the English language. While the LSAT is learnable for everyone, non-native English speakers may face more of an uphill battle. Today on the show, Nathan and Ben offer advice to an international student who describes his lack of proficiency in English as a barrier to achieving his desired LSAT score. In keeping with the international theme, the guys answer another listener’s questions about law school scholarships for international applicants. They also discuss whether an applicant ought to write an addendum explaining an F on their transcript. But first, the guys revisit their analysis of the index formulas discussed in previous episodes.
As always, if you like the show and want to get more from the Thinking LSAT community, check out the links below. You can connect with other folks studying for the LSAT and get more useful resources from Nathan and Ben.
5:45 - Weight of LSAT vs. GPA in Admissions Formulas
43:17 - Prepping for the LSAT as an International Student
55:55 - Applying to Law School as an International Student
1:01:19 - An Addendum for an F?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 351 of the Thinking Elsat Podcast, I'm Nathan Fox, that's been Olson. |
| 0:12.3 | Together with the co-founder of |
| 0:13.6 | Elsat demon.com and the Elsat demon daily podcast. This episode will air on |
| 0:19.0 | Monday, May 23rd still a full month away from the August 2022 El-Sat registration deadline. |
| 0:25.8 | That's on Tuesday, June 28th, so no decisions need to be made anytime in the next month. |
| 0:40.8 | We have always every other Thursday we have some free shit for you. |
| 0:45.2 | Go to El-Sat Demon.com and register for a free account. You can come to one of my free classes every other Thursday, 4 PM Pacific, 7 PM Eastern. |
| 0:50.4 | I used to call that the study group, but now I'm starting to do some more interesting stuff. |
| 0:55.4 | This week I'm doing something called one hour Elsat where I help people build study plans and in future |
| 1:02.2 | weeks you're going to see us doing all sorts of different things. |
| 1:08.0 | If you missed it you can go to El sat Demon.com and you can look at Rachel Gezer says how to get a law job you love. |
| 1:16.0 | That's actually happening this Saturday, but it'll be too late by the time you hear this podcast to join us live. |
| 1:22.0 | You can though watch the recording of that class, |
| 1:26.1 | El-Sat.link slash Rachel, and you'll be able to see a video of that class about networking your way into an actual law job. |
| 1:36.0 | Today on the show, we dove deep into a conversation that we were having last week trying to figure out how heavily law schools are waiting |
| 1:47.7 | El-Sat to GPA based on their index formulas. |
| 1:51.1 | Yeah, we waited out to, we walked out to the edge of the deep end. We hadn't put on our |
| 1:58.8 | swimsuits yet, we just kind of had our clothes on and then jumped in to the end and started like messing around with like these concepts and we'll see how that goes. |
| 2:10.0 | Yeah, we are not data analysts, but we did get very helpful emails. |
| 2:15.4 | People emailed in help at thinking else at.com. |
| 2:18.5 | So I want to thank Sean and Dante for writing us in and trying to help us. Thank you they are not waiting it as heavily as we thought they were. |
| 2:34.0 | You know, I would say though pretty good rule of thumb is probably twice |
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