Hit-or-Miss Personal Statements and a Flaw Question (Ep 315)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2021
⏱️ 106 minutes
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Summary
With the 2022 application cycle underway, more and more law school hopefuls are seeking feedback on their personal statements. Nathan and Ben are happy to continue reviewing them on the show. But too many submissions seem to flout their advice. So they’re introducing a new touchstone—one that hopefully will encourage everyone to take advantage of existing resources before submitting. Going forward, the guys will be accepting personal statements only from listeners who fill out a prerequisite questionnaire here:
Today’s show features answers to personal statement questions from the listener mailbag and five more personal statement critiques. But first, the guys tackle another Logical Reasoning question from PrepTest 73 and evaluate an admissions tip for Pearls vs. Turds.
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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 315 of the Thinking Elseh podcast. |
| 0:25.0 | Today we've got a purls versus turds real, it's actually a real bad piece of |
| 0:31.6 | advice about going back to school to improve your GPA. |
| 0:35.0 | That's not a thing. |
| 0:37.0 | We have an email about personal statements. |
| 0:41.0 | Oh, we started with a logical reasoning question from prep test 73. |
| 0:46.1 | Turned out to be a flaw question with a fairly predictable flaw, but a couple of answers that were worthy of digging in. |
| 0:55.9 | We talked about the difference between fails to consider and takes for granted. |
| 1:01.4 | Those mean two different things. You know what I just |
| 1:03.4 | realized too a couple episodes ago the title of the episode was could be worse |
| 1:08.0 | flaw and this is another example of a could could be worse for like things could be worse than what |
| 1:14.8 | you're thinking yeah I guess that was basically the flaw could be worse interesting |
| 1:20.3 | okay and then we did a whole bunch of personal statements. |
| 1:22.8 | We had some that were really good and we had some that were really, really bad, like cut all of it. |
| 1:27.8 | But we had, there's, the last one we do is actually pretty exciting, think so you can stay tuned for that. This is |
| 1:36.0 | going to air on Monday September 13th. That means that you are two weeks away |
| 1:42.3 | from the November L-SAT registration deadline. |
| 1:45.6 | You can come to my October 2021 L-SAT study group if you would like to talk to me |
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