Ep. 285: Goodbye Flex, Hello Online LSAT

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2021

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

It’s not always fun to say “we told you so.” But guess what. We told you so. This week, LSAC announced that the LSAT Flex is here to stay. And with a few small changes, the online test will be known simply as “LSAT” after August of this year. The guys cover this major announcement from LSAC and share some other news, like the release of the testing schedule thru June 2022. Nathan and Ben also hear from a student who’s considering a retake at 174, they advise a listener who fears they’re too old to go to law school, and they hear from a student who’s got a handful of full-ride offers. Plus, the guys consider an excuse of the week about tough vocab on the LSAT, and they rip thru a listener’s personal statement.

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains bad language.
0:02.6	Not bad at language, like Trump's lawyers.
0:05.9	Bad language, like naughty words.
0:08.1	Cover your ears, I guess. Hello and welcome to episode 285 of the Thinking El-Sap podcast in State Line Nevada.
0:22.0	I'm Nathan Fox with me in Vienna, Virginia is Ben Olson.
0:27.2	I thought it was a good show today, Ben. What do you think?
0:30.1	Yeah, I liked it. Yeah. I liked Kayla's personal statement and the questions we got.
0:35.6	Yeah, we started with a lengthy discussion of the new news that came from law school
0:41.7	admission council, basically the online version of the
0:44.7	El Z is here to stay and the dates are out but we talked about all of the news and implications
0:51.0	there we had an email from an international student who was asking
0:54.8	whether they should retake a 174. Yep. And surprisingly our answer turned out to be
1:01.7	yes.
1:03.4	Yeah, we doubled down on the presumption that if you haven't taken it five times,
1:08.2	you need to tell us why not.
1:10.3	Yeah, we had an email from a listener who thought that they were too old to go to law school and
1:15.9	turned out that we thought they were wrong about that, huh? Yep. I mean what it kind of turned out that we thought that they might be just kind of too
1:24.6	naive about the whole thing and that they were rushing into it and that they could make a
1:29.6	much better decision so I'm glad we got got to that discussion. We had a note from a demon student who had all kinds of admission success, even in this crazy cycle. we're talking about multiple full ride offers so it was nice to get an update with some good news we had an excuse of the week from a student who was complaining that they didn't know what certain words meant.
1:57.0	We had a lengthy discussion about different categories of not knowing what a word meant.
2:02.0	Hopefully that was useful and not too useful. of not
2:05.0	to mean, I don't know.
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