Episode 54: LSAT Test-Day Horror Stories, Tips for Attending LSAC Law School Forums and an Interview with a Criminal Defense Lawyer

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2016

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Fire alarms, marching bands and mice … oh my! Listeners Ayung and Lauren share their LSAT test day horror stories. We discuss what to do when you encounter the unexpected in the test room, and how test-takers can sometimes turn a bad situation to their advantage. (7:30)

We stop talking about the LSAT and start talking about law TV! Nathan recommends two shows, one of which has shown him more courtroom trial footage in ten hours than law school did in three years. (16:45)

After misunderstanding the 5-minute warning policy on test day and panicking, Nabiel is worried his LSAT score will be lower than he hoped and plans to retake in June. We urge him to make some big changes in his study strategy for the coming months. (28:17)

Following a positive experience she had at a recent LSAC Law School Forum, Kaley writes in to encourage others to make the most of this resource. We agree, and follow up with advice on forum preparation, making a lasting impression, and even what you should wear to the event! (38:00)

Kaley, currently in a wait-list situation herself, compiled a list of past “Thinking LSAT” episodes where the wait-list issue was discussed. (45:00)

A double-major in electrical engineering and computer science, listener Ben is worried his GPA isn’t high enough to get him into a top-tier law school, even if he does great on the LSAT. We talk about GPA vs. LSAT score in the admissions process and whether the type of degree a person has earned impacts their law school application. (46:15)

Ben must abruptly exit Episode #54 when his son makes an adorable request for him to “come watch Octonauts”; Nathan laughs and laughs. (1:02:20)

Nathan interviews Kevin Hayslett, a full-time criminal defense lawyer/part-time radio personality lawyer. (1:03:20)

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0:00.0	The Hello and welcome to the Thinking Elsat Podcast. This is Ben Olson. I am in Costa Rica today and we be here for a little while and Nathan where where are you I'm with
0:27.6	Nathan Fox as always I'm in San Francisco what are you doing in Costa Rica been?
0:31.9	Well you know, there's a small lull after the February El-Sat because the June L-Sat is pretty far away, and so I thought it would be a good time to get away and so we came down to
0:47.1	Costa Rica. How'd you pick Costa Rica? Where are you in Costa Rica? How's your Spanish?
0:52.0	My Spanish is. Where are you in Costa Rica? How's your Spanish?
0:56.1	My Spanish is horrible. I don't know any Spanish, really.
0:59.4	We are, let's see, so we're just outside of San Jose on a like I think it was a working farm before okay and then they turned it into an air b and so we're kind of close to a cloud forest which we have not gone to yet but it's definitely
1:19.7	cloud we're like up on a mountain and it's cloudy not where we're at but not too far away and I guess that's where the cloud forest is so we're going to go check that out.
1:32.0	Speaking of that, we were coming over from the airport, the driver, I was asking him about the
1:40.8	club for us and he spoke English. I said well is there anything we should
1:45.2	watch out for and he said well there's a lot of snakes but the snakes you know
1:50.7	they when they hear you coming they tend to go away so I was like okay that's cool and
1:55.9	then he said and you know it's very very unlikely that you'd run into a Jaguar
2:01.4	or Puma. I can't remember which it was, but it didn't matter.
2:07.0	I was like, well, when you say very unlikely,
2:10.0	what do you mean by that?
2:12.0	You know, I didn't, we didn't really get beyond the
2:16.3	subjectivity of that phrase, but, so I don't know what that means, but apparently
2:21.9	it's very unlikely, so.
2:23.0	Wow, I was expecting you to say tarantula.
2:27.0	You're pretty much guaranteed, I think, to see tarantulas down there.
2:31.0	Oh, okay.
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