Episode 49: Should a Student Retake the LSAT After Getting a Score of 171?

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2015

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

One listener has a full-time job, a diagnostic score of 165 and wants to take the June LSAT. She plans to study now, take a break during her busy season at work, and then re-start studying in the spring. Is this a workable study strategy? Should this listener retake the LSAT after getting a score of 171 on the October test? A listener from Brazil is studying for the LSAT and has taken five practice tests with scores ranging from 153 to 166. He asks the following questions: Do I have a chance at a scholarship (even with a lower GPA) at a good school? Is a 175 score feasible? Does being an international student make a difference for law school admission? We also tackle Logical Reasoning question 12 (Section 2) from the June 2007 LSAT. Got questions you want us to answer in a future podcast? Send us an email! 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	Hello and welcome to episode 49 of the Thinking Elsat Podcast in Los Angeles. I'm Nathan Fox. With me in Washington, D.C. is Ben Olson.
0:16.0	Ben, how you doing? Good. It's a little cloudy today, but I'm inside and I don't have
0:22.0	windows. So it doesn't matter. Okay. That's an awesome
0:25.8	weather report. Yeah. It is sunny and warm in Los Angeles as you might expect.
0:32.1	I wore shorts all day yesterday on
0:35.2	December 8th which is a little bit crazy. Okay so is this the first time you're
0:40.8	recording from LA? Yes, this is the first time I'm recording from LA.
0:44.1	And you know, I should go ahead and apologize
0:45.8	right off the top to all the listeners because I had some technical issues
0:49.0	this morning and I was not able to hardwire myself to the internet because I was missing one little adapter.
0:58.0	So if my sound is funny, it's totally my fault. But I will get that fixed by the next episode. Don't worry.
1:07.0	Cool. Well, how do you like it there? Oh, it's great. I mean, it's super weird. I don't know how much time you spent in LA, but it's it's
1:15.0	weirder than you think. I mean I live now in two of the weirdest places in the world.
1:19.7	The combination of San Francisco in LA is bizarre. I'm surprised at how many people are like
1:27.2	into the Hollywood thing here in LA. It's it's I would have thought like oh well no I mean that's going to be like a small
1:34.4	portion of of what you see around and it's just like any other city there's you
1:38.4	know it's not it's not like everybody's here trying to make it big but no there are a significant portion of the people that you
1:44.8	meet around that are, you know, actors and writers and models and personal trainers. and It seems like at least where I'm at it seems like the people that I've met so it's kind of cool
2:06.3	I saw the most hipster thing I've probably ever seen in my life the other day I was in
2:11.5	Silver Lake and which is like Hipster Central and I saw someone meditating
2:19.9	inside the coffee shop like sitting there he was actually sitting there with a friend
2:25.8	across the table from a friend.
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