Ep. 276: Rachel Barnes, National Black Law Students Association Chair

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Black Americans are woefully underrepresented in the field of law, making up around 5% of all attorneys compared to 13% of the U.S. population. Enter NBLSA, the National Black Law Students Association—an organization working to improve the relationship between Black law students, Black attorneys, and the American legal structure. Nathan and Ben are joined by NBLSA National Director and Chair, Rachel Barnes to discuss how NBLSA is articulating and promoting the educational, professional, political, and social needs and goals of Black law students. The guys also hear from two students who are trying to push their scores higher than their current on-record, they advise someone who’s bummed about an early decision decision, and they tackle another LR question from PT 65. Plus, get the latest updates about the LSAT Demon. Read more on our website!

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0:00.0	The following podcast uses swear words that I'm still trying to learn how to use properly. Hello and welcome to episode 276 of the Thinking El-Sapp podcast in Vienna, Virginia.
0:18.8	This is Ben Olson.
0:20.6	With me is Nathan Fox in State Line, Nevada still, right?
0:25.0	That's correct.
0:26.0	But, Yep, State Line, Nevada.
0:28.0	Cool.
0:29.0	And Rachel Barnes, the National Director of the National Black Law Students Association.
0:36.0	Rachel, where are you?
0:37.3	I am calling from Charlottesville, Virginia.
0:40.6	Oh, okay, cool.
0:42.3	So a couple hours away from each other I guess. Thanks for coming on the show today.
0:47.0	We're going to obviously interview Rachel first and pick her brain about everything, MBLSA.
0:54.6	We're also going to tackle some emails as usual.
0:58.2	The first one is asking,
1:00.0	should I retake a 170? Okay.
1:03.8	One 57 to the high 160s in a few weeks question mark I guess someone is
1:11.4	wondering if that's possible or maybe they did that.
1:13.6	I would just go ahead and say yes, that's absolutely possible.
1:16.5	But, okay.
1:17.5	Yep.
1:18.5	Yeah, we'll see what the question is.
1:19.5	Early decision, seat deposit, help, all caps okay we'll see what we can say there and if we have time we'll tackle a logical reasoning question from test 65
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