Ep. 236: Swipe Left for the Next Applicant

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

When you’re applying to law school, you gotta put the winningest sh*t upfront. That means your absolute best LSAT score, sweet references, and a personal statement chock full of dating-profile-worthy facts about who you are and what you’ve achieved. The guys hear from a 3L about how Bar prep is a lot like LSAT prep. They offer advice to someone who fears their score (and test-taking ability) is improving too slowly. They take a look at the wild swings in the US News law school rankings outside of the top 20 and help a 2020 1L-to-be decide where to attend. And the guys take a look at a personal statement that would have law school admissions peeps swiping left. Plus, updates on LSAC practice-test licensing and news about how the coronavirus is affecting law schools and the LSAT world. Read more on our website!

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 236 of the Thinking El-Sap podcast in Vienna, Virginia. This is Ben Olson with me is
0:15.3	Nathan Fox in Los Angeles. I am I'm in LA I might have to go to Northern California today
0:21.0	because my niece Haley broke her clavicle playing soccer, seventh grade soccer.
0:27.0	Wow, okay. You ever broken a bone?
0:29.0	I don't think I have.
0:32.8	No, me either.
0:34.4	So my niece is tougher than I am apparently, which is not saying much.
0:39.9	But yeah, she ran into a, she's kind of real skinny and she ran into one of the
0:46.9	larger seventh graders and broker clavicle she's gonna have to have surgery
0:51.1	and everything to fix it okay I might might be doing a little bit of traveling this week.
0:55.0	Five ago?
0:56.0	That's like your collarbone.
0:58.0	Collarbone.
0:59.0	Okay, yeah.
1:00.0	My brother broke his collarbone.
1:02.0	Oh, well we called it a collarbone.
1:04.0	We didn't call it the technical name.
1:07.0	How did he do that?
1:10.0	Uh, you know that game where you, this is stupid, but where you spin around on a bat?
1:15.0	You put your head on the bat and like spin around?
1:18.0	Oh, like bat racing.
1:19.0	Yeah, uh-huh.
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