August LSAT Scores (Ep. 471)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Nathan share what they’ve learned from LSAC about whether the exclusion of Logic Games had any impact on test scores this August. The guys also celebrate listeners’ successes on the August LSAT. They react to news of declining URM enrollment at top colleges. And they discuss why LSAT students should consider cutting back on social media.
0:36 - August LSAT Shoutouts - The guys celebrate listeners’ successes on the August LSAT.
7:45 - Underperforming on Test Day - LSAT Demon student Molly has twice underperformed her practice test scores on the official LSAT. Nathan and Ben instruct Molly to treat future tests like any practice test.
22:17 - August LSAT Scores - LSAC reports that scores for the August 2024 LSAT are in line with scores from previous years.
32:14 - Score Audit - Ben and Nathan advise listener David not to waste money on an LSAT score audit.
39:33 - College Demographics - The guys discuss new demographic data on the first undergraduate class since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in college admissions.
47:29 - Pearls vs. Turds - Is social media hurting your LSAT study?
55:44 - Word of the Week - The library is a common haunt for law students.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm concerned I will use up my five takes being stuck in the 160s when I know I can do better. |
| 0:05.5 | Is there any other advice you have for connecting my practice test scores to my official scores. Hello and welcome to episode 471 of the Thinking Elsat podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm Ben Olson and with me is Nathan Fox. |
| 0:24.8 | We're the co-founder of Elsat Demon.com |
| 0:26.9 | and the Elsad Demon Daily podcast. |
| 0:29.2 | Be Elsat famous, share news and ask questions on our website that's thinking |
| 0:33.2 | Elsat.com. |
| 0:35.8 | Congratulations to everyone who crushed the August |
| 0:38.6 | Elsat and thanks to those of you who wrote in to share your |
| 0:41.0 | scores. |
| 0:41.9 | We do have a few shoutouts and an email. I guess here are |
| 0:49.7 | four scores that Eric decided to share with us. |
| 0:54.0 | We have Alex who got a 180, |
| 0:56.2 | Micah who got a 180, Jordan who got a 170 plant |
| 0:59.7 | but plans to retake. |
| 1:01.9 | Glad to hear that because, wow, even just a couple of points can make a big difference. |
| 1:06.8 | And same with Parker. |
| 1:07.8 | Parker got a 171 and plans to retake. |
| 1:10.6 | Unless you think that's insane, because many people would hear that and go what you're |
| 1:15.4 | going to retake a one seven yeah gonna retake a 171 we have this email from |
| 1:19.7 | Damien which says I wrote to you guys a while a while ago asking about how I should go about retaking with a 174. |
| 1:28.0 | Well, I got a 179 on the August test and I'm writing to you just after finding out because I'm very grateful for the advice I've gotten on the podcast I got greedy and it paid off |
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