Burn Your Boats, and Focus on the Battle Ahead (Ep. 332)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Ben and Nathan explain why it’s a good idea to “burn your boats” and go all in on your LSAT prep if you want to start your legal career on the right foot. They respond to listener emails, talk about the difference between US and Canadian law schools, and double down on their advice not to pay for law school in the US. Then, they wrap it up with a logical reasoning question and remind listeners that one word never makes an answer right—but frequently, one word makes an answer wrong.
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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 332 of the Thinking Elsat |
| 0:16.7 | podcast this will air on Monday January 10th |
| 0:19.6 | 2022 the January Elsat's just around the corner starting on January 15th. If you're looking forward to the March |
| 0:28.6 | Elsat registration or the March Elsat the. The registration deadline is Thursday, February 3rd. |
| 0:36.4 | There's a February El-Sat, isn't there? |
| 0:38.3 | This year, there is January, February, March, and April, |
| 0:41.9 | as I understand it. |
| 0:43.0 | I'm not sure if they've announced any new dates beyond that. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm sure that they'll also be offering the test multiple times over the summer and in the fall. If you're thinking about going to law school this year, you are extremely late in the cycle. This is not a good plan. You need to be taking the L-SAT now though because you're you know you're not even early right for 2023 admission. |
| 1:09.0 | If you're just starting this process you're perfectly in line for taking the test multiple times this |
| 1:16.4 | spring and summer and then applying early for the next admission cycle. |
| 1:21.6 | There are just too many people who already have |
| 1:24.8 | scholarships lined up starting on September 1st of 2022. |
| 1:29.1 | You're extremely late in the cycle |
| 1:31.7 | if you're right now trying to go to law school this year. |
| 1:34.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:35.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:36.3 | You know it's interesting. |
| 1:37.3 | We say that to people and there's still people are like, yeah, but, but, but, um, no, I just, you just, well hopefully as we talk about scholarships and so forth, you start to realize the importance of just waiting and applying early next cycle. |
| 1:49.0 | But in any case, the February Elside is starting the week of February 12th. |
| 1:54.0 | If you have not come to Nathan's Elsad study group, it meets every other Thursday, 4 p.m. Pacific, 7 p.m. |
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