Episode 7: Should you retake the LSAT? With Ann Levine

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2014

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

We start with a discussion of what a bad strategy it is to read the question stem first. (If you're a Blueprint instructor, we'd love to hear your case otherwise.) Then we go deep with LawSchoolExpert.com's Ann Levine on whether to retake the LSAT, how to explain it if you do, and a range of other law school applications issues.

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0:00.0	The Hello and welcome to episode 7 of the Thinking Alsat podcast in San Francisco. I'm Nathan Fox and in
0:26.3	Washington DC is Ben Olson. How are you Ben? I'm doing good. What's new with you
0:32.4	in DC getting ready for I guess you've got a new class starting on July 8th is that right?
0:38.0	Yeah, yeah so a week from now. I'm just making the last little adjustments to the materials and then my wife's brother and his family and now her parents live in North Carolina So we're gonna drive five hours south a year
0:54.3	to North Carolina.
0:55.3	Oh, excellent.
0:56.0	I'm also driving five hours south.
0:58.3	I'm going to San Luis Obispo
0:59.8	for the 4th of July weekend and visit some friends. That should be fun. Our Mexico trip
1:05.3	got scrubbed because Christine couldn't get away from work so we're going to have to
1:10.5	do that some other time.
1:13.4	It's a pretty busy time of year for me
1:16.3	once class starts again on July 8th.
1:18.6	You got a pretty full class coming up?
1:22.4	Yeah, yep. Trying to decide if I can, uh, make room for another class, just trying to get the rooms
1:29.4	coordinated, so.
1:30.4	Oh, really, you're going to add an additional one, huh? Yeah, all full up.
1:35.1	Awesome. Yeah, everybody's busy this time of year. People are really pushing toward the September
1:42.2	Elsat, which as we've talked about it really is a good idea that if you're listening to this now and if it's at all possible you should try to get yourself prepared for that September test.
1:52.0	If you do that it allows you to apply at the
1:54.3	beginning of the next application cycle and it also lets you use the December
1:58.8	test as a backup. So it's not surprising that there would be a full boat right now.
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