Emailing for More Money (Ep. 552)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.6 • 886 Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2026
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
A listener asks how to negotiate scholarships, especially when schools claim they don’t negotiate. Ben and Nathan advise always asking for more and using competing offers as leverage. But, they stress the importance of being ready to walk away from an offer that doesn’t meet your needs.
Also in this episode
- Handling burnout from LSAT studying
- A logical reasoning question about a mushroom allergy
- Whether job prestige helps in law school admissions
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0:00 Burn Out. Need Advice.
17:43 How to Negotiate
50:45 Test D Question –- Mushroom Allergy
1:00:36 Studying Abroad
1:15:28 Pearls v. Turds
1:21:28 Job Prestige
1:26:43 Losing Study Progress
1:36:38 Word of the week – gravamen
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| 0:00.0 | want to do a little role play, Ben? Sure. Yeah, we don't negotiate scholarships. No worries. You're my top pick, but I'm looking at a couple offers. I'd have to pay this at this school. I'd have to pay this at your school. Is there any flexibility? Well, you know, law school is a transformative experience. Yeah. Ha ha ha. Hello and welcome to episode 552 of the Thinking ElSat podcast. |
| 0:29.2 | I'm Nathan Fox with me is Ben Olson. |
| 0:31.2 | We are the co-founders of ElsatDemon.com and the Elsat Demon Daily podcast. |
| 0:36.9 | First up is an email from Will. The subject is burnout, period, |
| 0:43.8 | need advice, period, April 10, LSAT, period. I love it. That's a great subject line. I don't love burnout, but I love the fact that it's just like short. |
| 0:58.3 | A lot of information. |
| 0:58.9 | It's at least informational, yeah. |
| 1:00.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.4 | So Will writes, |
| 1:02.6 | Hi, Ben, Nathan, and the Demon team. |
| 1:04.6 | I've been studying for the LSAT since December, four months. |
| 1:09.4 | That's four months. |
| 1:10.7 | For the April 10 LSAT. |
| 1:14.6 | I only found out about the LSAT demon and your methods this week, so please don't |
| 1:19.4 | skewer me too much for having already signed for a test. Things have been going well. I've |
| 1:25.7 | gone from practice tests of 160 |
| 1:27.5 | to consistently 167 |
| 1:30.6 | 168 and even scored a 170 |
| 1:34.5 | however in the past two weeks |
| 1:36.9 | things have tanked |
| 1:38.2 | I scored 158 on a practice test |
| 1:40.7 | I tried to drill in on question types where I was having issues. I feel like I spent |
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