Don't Become a Lawyer for the Prestige (Ep. 457)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2024
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Why do you want to become a lawyer? If you’re chasing prestige, then you might want to reconsider. This week, Ben and Nathan critique several common but misguided reasons people give for wanting to become lawyers. Later, the guys reveal the key to getting faster on the LSAT. They counsel a waitlist-bound applicant to reapply next cycle. And they discuss whether the loss of LG will change the way the LSAT is scored.
4:03 - Arguments Against Law School - An anonymous listener seeks reasons not to go to law school. Nathan and Ben ask Anonymous: What’s wrong with your current job?
10:28 - Why Become a Lawyer? - The guys discuss several bad reasons—and one good reason—to become a lawyer.
22:06 - Score Plateau - Listener Cole has embraced the Demon’s accuracy-first approach. Now how does he improve his speed? Nathan and Ben instruct Cole to start eliminating wrong answers more quickly.
35:04 - Score Decrease - We all have off days. Ben and Nathan tell listener Isabelle not to fret over a temporary decrease in her LSAT Demon dashboard rating.
41:19 - LR Approach - The guys find a serious flaw in listener Serena’s approach to Logical Reasoning. “That makes sense” is rarely an appropriate reaction to arguments in LR.
50:30 - 20 Points in 3 Months? - You don’t need to pick your test dates months in advance. Just keep practicing and register when you’re ready.
57:19 - Waitlist Hell - An anonymous listener weighs two disappointing offers of admission. The guys push for a third option: retake and reapply.
1:10:26 - Testing Limits - Nathan and Ben explain LSAC’s limits for retaking the LSAT.
1:14:27 - Scoring Scale Changes? - Listener Aden speculates that LSAC will soon change how it scores the LSAT. Whatever happens, Ben and Nathan see no reason for students to change their approach to the test.
1:20:47 - Word of the Week - Law school pricing engenders disgust.
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| 0:00.0 | Please convince me not to go to law school. |
| 0:03.0 | If you're chasing the dollars, then say goodbye to your three small children. Hello and |
| 0:15.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 457 of the Thinking Elsat podcast. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Nathan Fox with me is Ben Olson. |
| 0:21.0 | We're the co-founder of El-Sat Demon. |
| 0:25.0 | You can be El-Sat Famous. Just share news or ask questions with us on our |
| 0:29.9 | website thinking El-SAT.com. |
| 0:33.2 | If you want to see all of our free classes go to L-Sat demon.com |
| 0:36.8 | forward slash free tons of cool stuff there. |
| 0:40.3 | We got lots of ways that you can study with us for absolutely for free. |
| 0:44.0 | Go check that out, please. |
| 0:47.0 | June Elsat is coming up starting, boy, around the time that this airs, |
| 0:52.0 | the June Elsat will be about to start that's the last |
| 0:55.8 | L-Sat ever with logic games next I'll set after that is August 8th and that's going to be double the fun on logical |
| 1:04.8 | reasoning one section of reading comp like always we have oh well happy 10 year |
| 1:12.0 | anniversary Ben I guess we should start. Yeah, yeah, we should. |
| 1:15.0 | Ten years of 4th, or June 1st, yeah, 2014, that's crazy. |
| 1:21.0 | Episode 1 was published on June 1 of 2014. |
| 1:24.6 | This is episode 457. |
| 1:27.4 | So Ben, we have been pretty good about publishing one episode per week recently. |
| 1:35.0 | I would say for the last what, like three, four years, |
| 1:38.3 | maybe more, feels like we've been doing one episode every week. |
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