Episode 43: Applying for LSAT Disability Accommodations

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2015

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Mika talks about applying for LSAT accommodations for persons with disabilities, and what the LSAC decided in her case. She discusses the process of submitting more than 100 pages of documentation, and her request to take four LSAT sections, additional time to answer the sections, the use of noise-cancelling headphones, and an isolated testing environment. We answer questions from Benny who is pursuing his MBA and wants to attend law school. He asks whether a graduate degree will help his chances of admission to a law school such as Georgetown. He also asks if law schools will consider his graduate GPA more or less than the undergraduate GPA. We clarify an answer Ann Levine recently gave about how the LSAC computes your GPA when you retake a college course and receive a higher grade. Ann refers to the LSAC's policies related to transcript summarization webpage for further clarification. We also tackle Logical Reasoning question 9 (Section 2) from the June 2007 LSAT. Take a listen and let us know what you think. And don’t forget to sign up for our email newsletter. Everyone who signs up will receive updates and sample chapters of the upcoming Logic Games Playbook! Sign up and we’ll be in touch!

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:13.4	welcome to episode 43 of the Thinking Elsap podcast in San Francisco. I'm Nathan Fox and in
0:15.8	Washington DC have Ben Olson Ben how are you doing good. I'm a little tired
0:21.3	Yeah, it's a busy time of year, right? Yeah, it's a busy time of year and I'm a busy time of year, right?
0:22.6	Yeah, it's a busy time of year, and I'm also trying to wake up earlier and go to bed earlier
0:28.7	because I tend to stay here late after the class is over and it's just I don't know it's too late I leave like 1230 sometimes
0:38.6	1 o'clock yeah. Wow no I never do that I come pretty much actually, I end up like going out for dinner at 10 o'clock.
0:45.0	A lot of times after the class is over, which is also stupid.
0:48.0	So I would love to get on an earlier schedule, but I just don't know how to do that with it's you can't go to sleep right
0:54.7	after class right?
0:56.7	No you can't go to sleep and I feel like there's a lot of emails that sort of pile up
1:00.5	and I don't I don't know the problem is I think well a theory I could do
1:04.5	respond to them in the morning but then by the time the morning comes other things are going on
1:08.8	so then I don't get back to him to the next like later that day the next day. So I just like to get stuff done but at night
1:16.2	and get it out of the way. Yeah. But I don't also like the lifestyle. So I switched this morning. I
1:21.1	I woke up at 730 which I'm sure people will laugh at because I know some of my students get up at like five or six. It's just crazy. I can't even imagine that but 730 for me is early.
1:31.0	Yeah, I feel bad complaining about my life like all my students you know are
1:34.9	working and going to school and going to a four hour else at class two nights a week and
1:40.3	doing tons of homework you know and meanwhile I like, oh man I had to get up at eight today.
1:45.8	Dang, that's terrible.
1:47.8	Yeah.
1:49.8	Yeah.
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