Episode 15: Studying for the LSAT with a Learning Disability

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2014

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Nathan talks one-on-one with a student in Dallas, Texas. Topics include:

Can you still go to law school if you have low GPA and a learning disability?
How can the LSAT help you get into law school when you have a low GPA?
Getting accommodations on the LSAT with ADHD or learning disabilities?
How to address getting into law school with a poor GPA and learning disability.
How do you apply for the LSAC fee waiver?
What does the LSAC fee waiver get you?
Should you apply to law schools that invite you to apply without the fee, even if you are not interested in attending?

LSAT strategy topics include:

The importance of slowing down in order to understand the LSAT and make the questions easier for you.
LSAT logic games have gotten easier over the past several years. Practicing old games is a great workout, but don't let them get you too discouraged!
Skipping the science passage in the Reading Comprehension section?

Transcript

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0:00.0	The Hello and welcome to episode 15 of the Thinking Alsat Podcast. In San Francisco, I'm Nathan Fox.
0:24.2	Ben Olson is taking the week off.
0:26.7	Today's episode is going to be me and a student named Ebony
0:30.8	from Dallas, Texas.
0:33.2	You can reach me at Nathan at foxelsat.com.
0:36.9	Let me know if you have any questions
0:39.2	and thanks for listening. So just I guess start with a little bit about yourself and what kind of things we can help you with.
0:54.0	My name is Ebony, I live in Texas and this will be my third time taking the L-SAP, but the last two times I took it.
1:04.6	I took it about two years ago in 2012.
1:11.8	And I took it twice. I got a 152 and a 153 and at that point I was like I guess I'm not going to law school
1:21.0	Wait, hold on a second. Okay, so right off the bat, I want to know, with a 152 and a 153, why did you think you could not go to law school?
1:33.0	Because I don't have a good GPA.
1:36.5	So I was like if I don't have a good GPA or a good
1:38.7	L-SAT score, I don't think that I would be able to afford to go to law school.
1:43.5	So what's your GPA?
1:47.4	It's low.
1:48.4	It's like a 2.3 GPA. 2.3 GPA. Something like that. It may be lower than that. I don't like to look. It makes me sad.
1:58.0	What was your major? Where did you go to school? I go to school at University of North Texas and I'm a
2:07.8	vast major so my three focuses are political science, criminal justice, and dispute resolution.
2:14.0	Okay, and you said you're a Bass major, what's that?
2:19.0	It's basically like at my school they have this major, it's kind of like build your own degree
2:24.0	because they don't have a pre-law program and so I did the best major and I just
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