Episode 51: Money, Internships, Volunteering and Letters of Rec: Do They Help Get You Into Law School?

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2016

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Curtis is 33 years old, has an associate’s degree and wants to be an attorney. He is enrolled in a bachelor’s program and received a 146 on the June LSAT. He is worried about competing against younger law school applicants. Curtis asks about letters of recommendation, and the importance of internships and volunteer work when applying to law school. (3:25)

Diane asks about financial resources and how big of a difference money makes on the LSAT and applying to law school. (17:25)

We tackle Logical Reasoning questions 14 and 15 (Section 2) from the June 2007 LSAT. (24:40 – question 14; 41:52 – question 15)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 51 of the Thinking El-Sat
0:09.6	podcast in San Francisco, California. I'm Nathan Fox and with me in Washington, D.C. is Ben Olson.
0:17.0	Ben, how's it going?
0:18.0	It's going good. Just had a few days off for Christmas and so kind of getting used to the relaxed lifestyle.
0:27.2	You don't take as much time off as I do.
0:30.2	You had a class all the way through December, right?
0:33.0	Yeah, so it started right after the December
0:36.3	El-Sat and went until like a week and a half ago
0:41.1	and then it's going to pick up again tonight and go until the February
0:44.8	test.
0:45.8	Wow, wow, you're hardworking man, Ben.
0:50.3	I did have a class that started in January before but just found it hard to kind of fit that
0:58.6	schedule into four weeks.
1:00.8	So for my north because my classes are normally 8 to 10 to 12 weeks depending on which
1:06.6	test it is so I just said yeah let's start it in December and you find that people do want to take Elsack classes over the holidays?
1:14.6	It's like for me it's so quiet, but maybe that's just because I always choose to not run a
1:18.6	class in December.
1:19.8	Yeah, there seems to be more interest for a class that starts right after the December
1:27.4	Elsa then a little bit later, at least here in DC. I also think that DC is kind of an exception to a lot of places because there are so
1:36.0	many people who want to get JD's even though they're not necessarily interested in law because
1:42.2	of people working on the hill and their higher-ups have J.D.
1:47.9	even though they're not practicing. So it's just a continual flow of people in DC.
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