Create Your Own Early Decision Program (Ep. 368)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2022
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Savvy listeners who applied early this cycle continue to receive scholarship offers. Today, Ben and Nathan discuss an offer that promises all the benefits of an early-decision program without any of the risk. The guys also discuss the shady history of government-backed student loans, an inventive strategy for ignoring the test timer, and the futility of worrying about yield protection.
3:57 - We Are Anti Debt
11:35 - School Rankings Are Unreliable
16:30 - Another Early Scholarship Offer
20:16 - From 151 to 170
25:49 - Pearls vs. Turds
29:43 - Diversity Statement
33:01 - Nested Conditionals
37:05 - Yield Protection
41:48 - Aim to Exceed Medians
46:55 - Pre-Law Societies
48:54 - LSAC Fee Waiver
51:70 - From 156 to 174
53:38 - Test Day Routine
58:57 - GPA Addendum
1:03:05 - LSAT Question Types
1:06:56 - Character & Fitness Issues
1:10:47 - Set Your Sights Higher
1:16:44 - Scholarships for International Students
1:19:06 - Reviewing Reading Comprehension
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and |
| 0:05.0 | welcome to episode 368 of the Thinking El-Sat Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Nathan Fox. |
| 0:11.0 | That's been Olson together with the co-founder of El-Sat Demon. And that's been all. on help at thinking Elsat.com. This episode will air Monday, September 19th. You have 10 days to decide |
| 0:27.3 | whether you're going to register for the November 2022 Elsat. The deadline for that test is Thursday, September 29th. |
| 0:37.8 | You can go to El-Sat. |
| 0:38.9 | link forward slash dates if you want to look at all of the scheduled tests and registration deadlines. |
| 0:47.2 | Come to my free classes, three days from now on Thursday, September 22nd, |
| 0:53.6 | I'm going to be teaching a class called |
| 0:55.0 | your law school application checklist. |
| 0:58.4 | The idea there is to get everybody |
| 1:01.1 | moving in the right direction on the things that matter the most. |
| 1:05.5 | That's going to be Thursday, the 22nd at 4 PM Pacific, 7 PM Eastern. |
| 1:10.6 | If you want more information about that class or to register just go to |
| 1:14.0 | El sat link forward slash Nathan. We are hiring we always need more teachers |
| 1:20.4 | there's an announcement about this in the middle of the episode today but yeah to |
| 1:24.8 | apply all you got to do is email just a screenshot of your score report and a video of you |
| 1:30.6 | explaining a game or L.R question to Nathan at Elsat demon.com. |
| 1:37.0 | Highlights from today's show Ben any one thing that really stuck out? |
| 1:41.6 | Scholarships they're coming in early |
| 1:46.4 | we've said it before but just get them |
| 1:50.6 | yeah we did we lead off with it? We might not have led off with it, but it was a, it's a pretty interesting phenomenon. |
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