More LSAT Points Won't Fix This (Ep. 544)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.6 • 886 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2026
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
A listener wonders if another LSAT retake will improve her chances at her dream law school. Ben and Nathan explain why retaking may not help when she’s already above the school’s 75th percentile, and why affordability should matter more than rank.
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- Ben and Nathan dunk on a law school offering a mystery "commemorative gift” in exchange for a binding commitment
- A listener writes in about discouraging waitlists
- A student who took the long road to law school shares their journey
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0:00 How High is High Enough?
18:10 Law School Offering a "Commemorative Gift”
24:16 Good at Drilling but Bad at Timed Sections
31:42 Test D Question — Sunlight Exposure
43:40 Things We Actually Enjoy
50:50 Discouraging Waitlists
1:03:41 Long Road to Law School
1:07:22 Personal Statement Gong Show
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I would strongly encourage you not to shell out a bunch of money for school. |
| 0:04.0 | Doesn't mean don't go. |
| 0:05.1 | It means make it really cheap. |
| 0:07.3 | To reduce your risk so that if you get there in the first year and it sucks, then you |
| 0:10.7 | could just walk away. |
| 0:11.6 | And even if you finish walking away with zero to very little debt gives you a lot of flexibility |
| 0:18.3 | and the types of jobs you can accept. |
| 0:31.3 | Hello and welcome to episode 544 of the Thinking LSAT podcast. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Nathan Fox with me as Ben Olson. We're the co-founders of LSATDemon.com and the LSAT Demon Daily podcast. |
| 0:38.8 | We've got an email to kick it off here from Nicole asking, how high is high enough? |
| 0:45.4 | Hello, Nicole writes. I'm looking for advice on where to go from here. I studied with |
| 0:50.6 | Demon Live for about a year and a half after starting with Seven Sage and Princeton |
| 0:55.5 | Review. My diagnostic score was a 148, and I was thrilled to earn a 166 on the September LSAT. |
| 1:03.9 | I got greedy, continued studying, and felt great going into the October test, but my score dropped |
| 1:09.7 | to 163, which I accepted is still within my range. |
| 1:14.4 | For additional context, my first official attempt, I scored a 154, which I ultimately canceled before I started |
| 1:22.2 | with the demon. After October, I took a three-month break to regroup, and now I'm trying to decide what my next step should be. |
| 1:30.7 | So to fix the timeline for her there, she started with a 148. |
| 1:35.9 | She did Seven Sage Princeton Review. |
| 1:37.8 | Her first official test was a 154. |
| 1:41.3 | She canceled that. |
| 1:42.5 | She switched to the demon. |
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