Episode 33: Can an Opera Singer or Television Show Assistant Get Into Law School?

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2015

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s podcast, we discuss issues relating to the upcoming June 2015 LSAT and answer questions from listeners. We then work through question 4 in section 2 of the June 2007 LSAT, which is a flaw question about the Connorly Report on Ocksenfrey's pre-packaged meals. Here's a look at the topics we discuss: How to determine if you're ready for the June 2015 LSAT, and what you should do in the final weeks before the test. Is there a shortage of LSAT test centers around the country? Why are students being sent to test centers in other cities to take the exam? What are some tips for working through paradox questions? Megan graduated in 2012 with a bachelor's degree in media and visual arts, with a specialization in documentary production. She has spent the last few years working on a television show and now wants to attend law school and practice immigration law. Will her undergraduate emphasis and work experience hinder her chances of getting into law school? Similarly, Emily spent a few years singing opera in Europe and working on a Fulbright. Is her experience too varied, and is she too old for law school? Take a listen and let us know what you think. And don’t forget to sign up for our email newsletter to learn more about the launch of our upcoming Thinking LSAT Logic Games Playbook! We’ll be looking for people to read the book and write a few reviews. Interested in helping us out? Sign up and we’ll be in touch!

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0:00.0	The Hello and
0:18.0	Hello and welcome to episode 33 of the Thinking El-Sat Podcast.
0:22.0	In San Francisco, I'm Nathan Fox and in
0:25.6	Washington DC I have Ben Olson and how you doing doing great busy time of year for you. Yeah, very busy. Especially this year seems to be more people
0:37.8	getting ready for the June test and at least I've seen in the past. Yeah, we're recording this episode today on the registration, late registration deadline
0:47.4	for the June 2015 test.
0:49.0	So this will come out after that deadline.
0:52.1	But we're going to have some last minute tips for how to figure out if you're ready for the June 2015
0:58.5	Elsat. We're going to talk about what's going on with the busy registration and full test centers and that kind of stuff.
1:07.6	We have a couple questions, similar questions that we received at help at thinking Elsat.com from
1:15.0	non-traditional students or at least students who think they're non-traditional.
1:19.0	So we'll talk about that for a little bit and then we'll wrap up by doing a logical
1:24.1	reasoning question or two from the June 2007 L-SAT. First I my students in my new class last night were asking me, Ben,
1:36.4	about whether you had kept up with your meditation.
1:39.3	I'm finding that I have tons of podcast listeners in my class and so they know all this stuff about me and about you.
1:48.0	So anyway they were curious whether you have I know it's got to be 10 or 15 episodes ago that we were talking about meditation but they want to know if you if you stuck with it.
1:59.8	Yeah short answer I have I'm no longer listening to the guided meditation by Sam Harris, not that there's anything wrong with it, but I found myself sort of zoning off because I guess I've heard it so many times.
2:15.0	But what I do now is I try to focus on my breathing for 30 breath, which sounds funny, but it's extremely hard, but I'm getting
2:26.7	better at it. Like I constantly find myself thinking about something else at like number 12 or 13 and then I start over but I can get to 30
2:36.8	eventually so wow is that like 30 slow breaths or normal paced breaths or what just normal I don't try to do anything
2:47.8	Unusual I just count them and you know it it's it's so weird because I'm trying to stay focused on that and then one
2:57.1	thought leads to another and pretty soon I'm thinking about something else even though I'm trying to stay focused and then I realize that I'm thinking about something else,
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