Episode 45: Law School Early Decision Programs and an October LSAT Horror Story

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2015

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Ann Levine, Law School Expert, talks about whether law school early decision programs are worth exploring. She also addresses whether law schools can see if you've applied to multiple schools via early decision. Joe shares an October LSAT test-day horror story that involved the use of an analog watch during the test. He asks advice on how to address the situation with LSAC. Listener Kayle talks about an offer she received from a law school in Alabama that included a waiver of her application fee and a $30 iTunes gift card in exchange for her application to the school. She asks if other law schools are engaging in these offers. After scoring in the mid-teens on Logic Games, Steve asks for help and suggestions for additional Logic Games study materials. One listener doesn't feel confident about his most recent score with respect to Reading Comprehension. He already took the LSAT once and scored a 162. He asks if he should take the December LSAT, and what are the implications of taking the LSAT for a third time. He also asks about the option of cancelling his score and if we have suggestions for additional comparative reading materials. Thinking LSAT is now on Twitter! Follow us at @thinkinglsat and tweet us a question! Take a listen and let us know what you think.

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0:00.0	So I have an Laveen with me from the law school expert and how are you?
0:12.1	I'm great Nathan how are you doing after
0:13.7	the all set oh after else that came out there's no break for us we we
0:18.0	immediately start new classes leading up to the December else side it's usually a
0:22.2	pretty quick turnaround so
0:24.6	yep back to work got a new problem yeah, yeah, I'm sure let's do it
0:30.5	No, I'll take some time off in December.
0:32.8	That'll be my first big break.
0:37.2	We have one question here.
0:38.6	We're doing this separately from the rest of the podcast,
0:41.5	so Ben's not here. It's just Anne and I and and me and here's
0:47.6	a question from a reader that asks to be anonymous or a listener that asks to be anonymous
0:51.7	it says I wanted to ask you both about
0:54.1	early decision and whether it is worth it. Can other schools see if I've
0:58.3	chosen to apply early decision elsewhere? Are the benefits with the school I apply to early decision worth the risk of negatively
1:06.2	affecting my applications elsewhere? I don't know if this is helpful, Anne, but some background, he says, graduated from a top 20 university,
1:16.0	166 ELSAT score, yeah, trying to look for top 14 schools potentially. What do you think about all that?
1:24.0	Well, first thing I have a lot I can say but early decision, but the first misnomer I'd like to correct is
1:30.0	schools don't see that you've applied somewhere else binding.
1:34.0	It's not the issue here.
1:36.0	The issue here is why you would apply binding to a certain school.
1:40.0	And that it really is binding.
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