Ep. 266: An Arresting Personal Statement
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2020
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
The leaves are changing and the weather is getting colder, but the LSAT remains the same. It’s the time of year where law schools wheel out their college admissions staffers to try to sell you big on their schools. In the past, LSAC would hold forums where you could meet and greet admissions folks from around the country. Now they’re creating virtual events. The guys discuss LSAC’s new digital forum, they discuss the value of studying with “old” LSAT practice tests vs. new ones, they weigh some advice from a listener, and they critique a personal statement. Read more on our website!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 266 of the Thinking Elsap podcast in Vienna, Virginia. This is Ben Olson. With me is Nathan Fox in State Line, Nevada. |
| 0:18.0 | Yep. Today on the show we're going to do our typical pearls versus turds. |
| 0:24.5 | This one today is on reading comprehension. |
| 0:28.3 | Someone writes in, are old tests useful? |
| 0:32.3 | Yes. I guess we can elaborate on that. News from, we have news from |
| 0:38.0 | Elsack's digital form, okay? And then we're to go over Max, huh? |
| 0:43.8 | Forum. |
| 0:44.8 | Yeah, Forum. |
| 0:45.8 | Sorry, I don't know. |
| 0:46.8 | You may I say, yeah, I think I did say Form. |
| 0:49.5 | And then we're going to go over Max's personal statement. |
| 0:52.3 | This will air on Monday, October 5th. The October |
| 0:56.4 | Elsat flex is in full force if you're listening to this when this comes out. Good |
| 1:01.3 | luck to all those of you who are taking it this past weekend or today or whatever. |
| 1:07.0 | The November Elset is on November 7th or well it starts on November 7th. It's a flex test as well. Good luck to all of you who are |
| 1:16.7 | signed up for that. Email the show at help at thinking else at.com send us your |
| 1:22.3 | selfies and leave us a review on iTunes. That helps a lot. I was just reading those reviews the other day. I don't know why I get sucked into them |
| 1:33.4 | every now and then, but one was a one star |
| 1:37.7 | and the person told us to get over ourselves. |
| 1:40.6 | So. |
| 1:45.0 | Any specifics or just generally? Just general frustration about how we're, you know, useless and full shit and stuff like that. |
| 1:55.0 | So I get what you pay for on a free podcast. |
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