GPA First, LSAT Second (Ep. 339)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
If you’re an undergraduate student earning anything less than straight A’s, you don’t need to be thinking about the LSAT yet. Now is your opportunity to maximize your GPA. Tune in to hear Ben and Nathan discuss why undergraduate grades are so important to law school admissions—and why students should focus on acing their courses before anything else. The guys also discuss GPA addenda, law school scholarships, and GI benefits. They hear from a first-generation immigrant who used LSAT Demon to raise his score 27 points. And finally, they grind out an Evaluate question from PrepTest 73.
As always, if you like the show and you want to get more from the Thinking LSAT community, check out the links below. You can connect with other folks studying for the LSAT and get more useful resources from Nathan and Ben.
3:20 - Get Straight A’s Starting Today
26:45 - T-14 Dreams with a Bad GPA
42:00 - Recycling Cans in Law School
50:06 - A 27-Point Improvement and a Full Ride
55:40 - Test 73, Section 4, Question 5
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:03.0 | One definition of explicit language is, |
| 0:06.0 | stated clearly and in detail, |
| 0:09.0 | leaving no room for confusion or doubt. |
| 0:11.0 | That's why we use those words. Hello and welcome to episode 39 of the Thinking Elsat podcast. |
| 0:24.7 | This episode will air on Monday, February 28. |
| 0:28.2 | You have a couple weeks still before the Wednesday, March 16th, |
| 0:32.0 | registration deadline for the April |
| 0:33.6 | L-Sat. The March-L-Sat is coming up in a couple weeks as well. That |
| 0:40.1 | starts on March 11th. It's not too late to come to my March 2022 |
| 0:44.1 | El-Sat study group. I do that every other Thursday. It's free for anybody who |
| 0:48.8 | has a demon account every other Thursday, 4 PM Pacific, 7 PM Eastern, and it's an Elsack class where you can |
| 0:56.4 | ask me anything you want about the test or law school admissions and my goal is to put you on the path toward going to law school for free. |
| 1:06.0 | That's what I really care about is helping you save $150,000. |
| 1:12.0 | That's what I want to do for you. |
| 1:15.0 | So, it costs you nothing. |
| 1:17.0 | Come to my free study group and let's talk. |
| 1:20.0 | Today on the show we had a big mailbag, huh? |
| 1:24.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:25.0 | We had an email from Charlie about how to do better in school. |
| 1:28.0 | We had a tip from 2L at GW, Michael Hill, about becoming a better typist in order to get better grades. |
| 1:37.2 | We had two book recommendations in there on how to get better grades. |
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