Ep. 290: Ethics and Law School Admissions with Sydney Montgomery

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Since the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal, college admissions professionals have been under a new level of scrutiny. On today’s show, Ben and Nathan talk to Harvard Law grad and college admissions consultant, Sydney Montgomery, about ethics and law school admissions. They also talk to Sydney about how equity-seeking groups can find community and support as they are preparing for law school and when they get to campus. Plus, the guys answer another LR question from prep test 65, they answer a question about scholarships for older candidates, check-in on changes to the U.S. News rankings, and hear a story of an LSAC fee waiver denial that got reversed. Read more on our website!

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0:00.0	The following podcast uses words that I try not to use around my kids.
0:04.0	Hello and welcome to episode 290 of the Thinking Elseat Podcast.
0:15.0	Today on the show we talked with Sydney Montgomery.
0:18.0	She is a law school admissions consultant.
0:20.0	She particularly helps minority applicants and first generation
0:24.5	college applicants that was a great interview she she's a Harvard Law
0:30.0	grad yeah Princeton undergrad Harvard, Harvard law grad.
0:34.0	Pretty impressive person.
0:36.8	An actual lawyer.
0:38.9	An actual lawyer.
0:40.2	We talked a lot about her resources and the advice she has for the people she consults, including ethics.
0:47.5	We also dove into a logical reasoning question, had a ton of tangents in there, hopefully half of them were helpful for you and then took some questions about the new US News and World Report ranking methodology, which includes graduate debt.
1:02.0	Oh, and then we heard about someone who had an L-SAC fee waiver denial.
1:07.0	What's the word?
1:10.0	Change, right?
1:11.0	The person appealed.
1:12.0	The appeal was sustained.
1:14.4	Appeal was sustained.
1:15.4	Appeal and won on appeal, which is worth, you know, a few thousand dollars, so that's
1:19.8	great news. Then we also had a an email from Michael who's a little bit older but still finishing a
1:25.4	bachelors and wanted our thoughts on that law school candidacy and L-SAT process.
1:30.5	Yeah, let's jump in.
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