Law School Pricing Is Unfair (Ep. 393)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2023
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
The law school tuition system is broken and unlikely to change. Ben and Nathan discuss the why and the who behind the inequitable pricing and double down on their advice to listeners: Don’t pay for law school. Also on the pod, the guys assess LSAT Demon’s compatibility with specific testing accommodations, evaluate the likelihood of a 30-point score increase, weigh in on the idea of postponing graduation to boost your UGPA, and encourage listeners to look to the future rather than focusing on past failures.
4.14.2023 — April LSAT begins
4.25.2023 — June LSAT registration deadline
5.3.2023 — April LSAT scores released
6.9.2023 — June LSAT begins
6.28.2023 — June LSAT scores released
1:04 - Focus on What You Can Change
5:51 - Mistakes as Motivation
10:43 - One Step at a Time
17:06 - Accommodations and the Demon
22:03 - Read Every Answer Choice
28:42 - Play How You Practice
34:38 - The System Is Broken
1:02:51 - Will the Ranking Shakeup Affect LSAT Weight?
1:15:13 - Is Increasing From the 140s to 170s Possible?
1:22:13 - ChatGPT’s LSAT Score
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and I'm Nathan Fox with me. Just Ben Olson. |
| 0:12.9 | We're the founders of L-Sat Demon.com |
| 0:14.6 | and the L-Sat Demon Daily podcast. |
| 0:17.1 | You can be L-Sat famous, share news, |
| 0:19.3 | or ask questions on our website, |
| 0:21.8 | thinking L-Sat.comcom and you might find yourself on an upcoming show. |
| 0:27.0 | Nothing really going on right now. We're in a little bit of a dead spot in the cycle. |
| 0:32.0 | There's nothing to register for until April 25th. You've got to decide whether you want to register for the June 2023 registration. |
| 0:41.0 | You really don't need to make any decisions between now and then if you're prepping, |
| 0:45.7 | you just got to look at your practice test scores on April 24th and decide whether you want to register |
| 0:51.1 | for the June 2023 test, which is six weeks after that. |
| 0:56.8 | Go to Elsat.link forward slash dates if you want to see all the registration deadlines and lots of good stuff there. |
| 1:03.2 | Ben you put an item on the top of the agenda today. |
| 1:07.4 | Yeah Eric I send it to Eric and Eric kindly put it up here and had something to |
| 1:12.4 | add to it. |
| 1:13.0 | But anyways, I have this thing on my computer that after 25 minutes, it like throws up a block page and is's like okay take a break and I just use it to keep me focused right because I know I only have 25 minutes and it keeps me going but anyways this quote came up and it made me think of people trying to |
| 1:34.3 | apply in the middle of the cycle or at the end of the cycle and the the quote is |
| 1:41.0 | this it's often attributed to CS Lewis. |
| 1:44.4 | Apparently, Eric found out that it's more likely comes from James Sherman's book, |
| 1:49.3 | Rejection, which I've never heard of James Sherman, but in any case, the quote is, |
| 1:54.0 | you can't go back and change the beginning, |
| 1:55.8 | but you can't start where you are and change the ending. |
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