Don't Let Your Obstacles Define You (Ep. 357)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Admissions season is almost here, and listener questions are rolling in. On this week’s episode, Ben and Nathan advise a student on whether to make her battle with cancer the topic of her law school personal statement. But first, they evaluate a listener’s Reading Comprehension tip as a pearl or turd. They share their thoughts on online education and consider the pros and cons of attending a non-ABA law school. Plus, they answer questions about LSAT study schedules, testing accommodations, letters of recommendation, and more!
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5:05 - Testing Accommodations
10:26 - Pearls vs. Turds
14:56 - Book Recommendations and Lies
19:15 - Non-ABA Law Schools
23:00 - Raising Practice Test Scores
27:38 - Letters of Recommendation
31:23 - Skipping the Bar Exam
34:50 - Online Law School
40:25 - Don’t Let Your Obstacles Define You
45:40 - Study Schedule Advice
52:48 - Changing Careers
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 357 of the Thinking Elsap podcast. I'm Ben Olson, that's Nathan Fox. |
| 0:14.0 | Together we're the co-founders of El-Sat Demon.com |
| 0:16.0 | and the El-Sat Demon Daily Podcast. |
| 0:20.0 | If you're listening to this today, Monday, July 2nd, 2022, be El-Sat famous and get on the next show by emailing us today at help at thinking |
| 0:31.3 | El-Sset.com. |
| 0:32.8 | We will get your email and we will record tomorrow. |
| 0:35.8 | So we record every Tuesday. |
| 0:37.8 | Today on the show we got tons of emails. |
| 0:40.3 | Thank you so much for writing in. |
| 0:42.0 | And that's really what we got. |
| 0:43.6 | We just got a mail bag of questions, |
| 0:45.6 | and we tried to answer your questions |
| 0:47.0 | as best we can, from everything from a low diagnostic score |
| 0:51.5 | to, you know, people trying to decide whether to change their |
| 0:57.0 | career that he wants to walk away from a two hundred and twenty thousand dollar a year job we had |
| 1:02.2 | other people you know talking about going to non-ABA accredited schools. |
| 1:08.3 | Oh, can you, are there certain law schools where you can go to law school and then get to skip the bar exam. |
| 1:15.0 | I don't, yeah, it was just all over the place. |
| 1:17.0 | We kind of rapid fire, a bunch of different topics today. |
| 1:20.0 | Yep. |
| 1:21.0 | The next registration deadline for the Elsat is Tuesday, July 26. That's for the September |
| 1:25.4 | 2022, Elsat. You can always find the dates at L-sat. Link forward slash dates. If you have not come to Nathan's free class, |
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