Law School Finances with an Actual Economist (Ep. 337)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2022
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode, Ben and Nathan interview Harvard-trained economist Laurence J. Kotlikoff! But first, the guys answer a bucketload of listener emails about LSAT strategies, law school admissions, undergraduate majors, GPAs, and more. This episode is chock full of advice for students at any stage of the LSAT and law school application process.
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45:54 - GPA Addendum
50:18 - Using All Your LSAT Attempts
53:23 - Choosing Your Major
1:00:16 - Interview with Economist Laurence J. Kotlikoff
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains bad language not bad at language like Trump's lawyers bad language like naughty words |
| 0:08.7 | cover your ears I guess Hello and welcome to episode 337 of the Thinking El-Sat podcast. This one's going to air on Monday February 14th |
| 0:25.9 | Nothing really happening anytime soon you might be taking the February else at right now if so good luck |
| 0:32.2 | We've got Wednesday March 16th as a deadline for the April |
| 0:35.8 | L-SAT. That's really the next thing that you need to worry about. Come to my March 2022 |
| 0:42.1 | L-Sat Study Group. |
| 0:43.4 | It's happening now every other Thursday, 4 PM Pacific, 7 PM Eastern. |
| 0:47.7 | Come ask me any question you want |
| 0:49.6 | and get some free El-Sat help. |
| 0:51.6 | All you need is a demon-free subscription, El-Sat help all you need is a demon-free subscription |
| 0:53.4 | else at demon.com sign up for a free account. Today on the show boy we had rapid-fire |
| 0:59.3 | shit tons of emails. |
| 1:03.9 | Do you remember any topics that stood out? |
| 1:05.9 | I would say the main takeaway, |
| 1:07.4 | if we haven't made this clear yet, |
| 1:09.4 | is that the number one thing you need to work on to get into law school is your GPA. |
| 1:16.8 | Get your GPA up. |
| 1:18.4 | Then once that's done, get your L-SAT score, the highest L-SAT score you can get. |
| 1:23.4 | And then at that point, I don't actually care. |
| 1:26.3 | Yeah, it's an order of operations. |
| 1:28.5 | And now for many of you, you've already graduated from undergrad. |
| 1:31.6 | There's nothing you could do, and so the thing you need to think about is the all sat. |
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