Episode 65: NSFW

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

…JK. Episode 65 is no less safe for work than any other episode of Thinking LSAT. We do appreciate hearing about all of you that seem to be listening to this podcast at the office instead of, say, writing invoices or reading memos or playing Pokemon Go.

We begin this episode by sharing a news item that features an uncharacteristically generous new refund policy from the LSAC. The wording of said policy is, however, very characteristically convoluted. Check out the fine print here while we admire the LSAC’s commitment to obscurity. (4:50)

Brian, a listener who recently earned a very impressive 171 on the LSAT, vows to never set eyes upon the test again. We hear you, Brian. He asks us to speculate on his chances of admittance to a top law school with his awesome 171 and a 2.9 GPA. Nathan refuses to play fortune teller and instead directs all such queries to the LSAT/GPA Calculator. Try this tool for yourself to see the chances of getting into the law school of your dreams. (10:55)

A lengthy email from Rachel covers a plethora of LSAT and law school related questions and we cover as much ground as we can in response. Included in her letter are queries about studying old LSATs, using a free app to prepare, whether or not she should study in a distracting environment, and if her understanding of sufficient vs. necessary conditions is correct; unfortunately, Rachel, it isn’t. We set her straight on these conditions and offer free resources to help even more, including Nathan’s blog posts on sufficient and necessary. (23:48)

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Transcript

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0:17.8	Hello and welcome to episode 65 of the Thinking Elsap podcast. This is Ben Olson in Washington DC. With me today is Nathan Fox in LA. We have a ton of letters to go through and a news
0:27.2	item to jump into but before we do that Nathan how you doing? I'm doing very well. Thanks. Yeah loving life in LA and I'll be teaching all day Saturday all day Sunday in San Francisco
0:40.4	This weekend and then I'll be back in LA and then I'll be back and forth.
0:45.4	So yeah it's kind of fun having a foot in two different places and classes are going
0:51.3	well how about you is taking off?
0:54.0	Yeah, yeah, they're going well.
0:56.0	The other night, in fact, in class, I asked everyone if they had read
1:00.0	what I had asked them to read, I think, two lessons before.
1:05.1	And I think everyone or almost everyone raised their hand.
1:08.7	It actually really surprised me because it always seems like, know there's some somebody who hasn't had a
1:16.0	chance to get to it and there probably were a few people who maybe didn't get to
1:19.3	it but the vast majority did and I was thoroughly impressed so this group of students is making the effort you know
1:28.6	yeah that's it's so fun I mean we we are just incredibly lucky to be able to teach El-Sat students.
1:35.4	They're an awful earnest, hard-working, bright bunch, aren't they?
1:41.3	Yeah, yeah.
1:42.3	I don't know if I would be able to teach any other subjects besides
1:45.6	I'm so spoiled now having had else out of students for so long. Yeah. The one student
1:51.2	we were talking about Supreme Court oral arguments at one point and I said that I sometimes hear them on the radio when I'm driving home really late at night and I said does anyone do this and no one no one listens to these things on the radio I just sort of
2:04.5	randomly do but some students say oh I actually go in to the website and I look for
2:08.9	them I said oh yeah okay this is why you're going to become an attorney
2:13.3	and I'm going to sit here in the bubble of safety
2:18.2	teaching the L-SAT.
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