Higher Medians for 2025 (Ep. 539)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.6 • 886 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
The ABA has released new 509 data revealing how LSAT and GPA medians have shifted over the past year, along with updated data into how schools are distributing scholarships. Ben and Nathan break down the numbers and react to several schools that have made significant changes.
Also in this episode:
- How to handle LSAT questions you’ve seen before
- The Arkansas Supreme Court allows lawyers to use AI in their work
- Should a listener prioritize location or ranking for law school?
Check out all of our “What’s the Deal With” segments
Get caught up with our Word of the Week library
0:00 LSAT Question on Pinched Nerves
19:46 New 509 Reports
40:10 Repeat Questions
50:47 Fourth RC Passage Strategy
55:30 Arkansas Supreme Court Updates Rules on AI
1:01:28 Accusation of Cheating
1:18:00 Regional vs. T20 Law School
1:27:55 Word of the Week — admonition
1:34:22 Things We Like
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | All right. |
| 0:00.5 | So new 509 data is out. |
| 0:03.4 | Do you want to go through some of these key findings? |
| 0:05.3 | It's, you know, it's a zero-sum game, right? |
| 0:07.2 | There's winners and losers in the game, and you want to be on the winning side. |
| 0:18.3 | Hello and welcome to episode 539 of the Thinking Elseap podcast. I'm Ben Olson. With me is Nathan Fox. We're the co-founders of ElsideDemon.com and the Elsaid Demon Daily podcast. All right, let's jump into it. I guess we're doing a test D question. Yep. We're going to do one of our homemade L-SAT questions. We are adding to our |
| 0:42.6 | test bank so that there's more challenging, interesting, new questions for people to work on. |
| 0:48.9 | Okay. So what do you think? You want to read it and I'll react? Sure. This is a doctor speaking. |
| 0:57.5 | Okay. Your nerves are being pinched between your collarbone, your anterior scaling muscle, |
| 1:05.8 | and your pectoris pectoralis, pectoralis maybe, minor muscle. Pectoralis, pectoralis, maybe, minor muscle. |
| 1:14.1 | Pectoralis, yes. |
| 1:16.0 | Yes. |
| 1:18.0 | My nerves are being pinched between my collarbone, my something muscle, and my other something muscle. |
| 1:28.1 | Yeah, okay. |
| 1:29.1 | What about it? |
| 1:30.1 | It hurts, Doc. |
| 1:30.9 | Fix it. |
| 1:32.3 | To treat this, we will first relax your interior scaling with a local anesthetic. |
| 1:39.4 | Okay. |
| 1:40.1 | So, you know, I trust the doctor, right? |
| 1:43.2 | But on the LSAT, I have to be skeptical. |
| 1:47.9 | So on the LSAT, why? |
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