Episode 61: Doogie Howser, JD: An Interview With 15 year old College Senior Seth Harding.

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2016

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Episode 61 features an interview with Seth Harding, a 15 year old college senior who is preparing to take the LSAT. Seth is planning to take the test on June 6th and hopes to raise his current practice score of 148 to an Ivy-league competitive score within the next 3 weeks. Will we convince Seth to postpone his test date, as his goal is extremely ambitious, if not impossible? Will he convince a skeptical Nathan that he’ll be mentally and emotionally prepared to start law school at only 16 years old? Will Seth appreciate any of Ben’s spot-on Doogie Howser jokes? Listen in to find out the answers to these questions and more. (0:55)

Nathan discusses some recent advice his prep class received from law school admissions expert Ann Levine, including the optimal time to apply to law school and when applying “early” is no longer considered early. (35:10)

We dole out some tough love to Henry, a law school hopeful who emailed Nathan asking for tips on how to raise his LSAT score from an untimed 160-165 to a 175-180. We definitively conclude that any score must be from a timed practice test to convey real information on one’s performance on the test. (42:30)

We work through Question #22 in section 2 of the June 2007 LSAT, a Logical Reasoning problem that asks you to find the answer that Must Be True. Download the free test here and try the question, then listen in for our explanation. (53:15)

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:15.0	welcome to episode 61 of the Thinking Elsap podcast
0:19.0	this is Ben Olson in Washington DC and with me today I have Nathan Fox as always.
0:26.0	Let me just apologize right off the bat I've got construction going on outside my
0:30.6	apartment and so you might hear some banging and clanging and things like that
0:34.8	nothing I can do about it I apologize I'm gonna try to keep my mic muted as much as
0:39.4	possible so that you don't have to hear that stuff and yeah anyways my bad yeah no problem I mean I can't hear right now
0:46.2	so maybe it won't be a problem but we also have Seth Harding today which is our
0:51.6	very own doogie-Houser J-D.
0:54.0	Seth is 15 years old, right, Seth?
0:58.0	Okay?
1:00.0	Yeah, this is an interesting situation.
1:02.0	Never met anyone who I think is 15 preparing for the L-SAP,
1:05.2	but we're excited to hear your situation,
1:09.6	learn more about you, and what's going on
1:11.8	and maybe answer some of your questions.
1:14.1	When we're done with you, Seth, we're going to go into some questions from a listener and
1:19.5	then tackle a L.R. question, a logical reasoning question from the June 2007
1:25.2	L-SAT. Nathan, do you have anything else you wanted to add? No, that's perfect. Let's do
1:29.8	it. Okay, so Seth, tell us a little bit about yourself. You're 15 years old and you're studying for the
1:36.7	Elsat.
1:37.7	Yeah, okay. I was homeschooled. That is the strategy for education that my family is taken.
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