New Law School Admissions Data (Ep. 486)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2024
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Nathan and Ben dig into newly released admissions data and discuss the impact of the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ban. Later, the guys advocate greater transparency in law school pricing, assess JD-Next as an alternative to the LSAT, and investigate the ascendent Texas A&M School of Law.
4:25 - New Law School Enrollment Data - The ABA just released law schools’ Standard 509 disclosures for 2024. Ben and Nathan discuss what the numbers mean for URM admissions following the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ban.
14:55 - Scholarships - ABA 509 reports now define full-tuition scholarships as “scholarships that cover tuition and mandatory fees.” Listener Emma wonders if this definition allows law schools to obscure their scholarship numbers. Nathan and Ben consider solutions to law schools’ discriminatory pricing model.
31:20 - JD-Next - Some law schools now report the number of enrolled students who took JD-Next, an alternative law school admissions test. So far, those numbers are low.
34:30 - What’s the Deal with…? - Ben and Nathan look into Texas A&M University School of Law, which has rocketed up the US News rankings in recent years.
1:16:56 - Read Every Answer - The guys explain why you should read every answer on every LSAT question.
1:21:57 - Word of the Week - Thinking LSAT listeners should avail themselves of LSAT Demon’s free classes at lsatdemon.com/free.
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| 0:00.0 | They're trying to say like, oh, no, the Supreme Court decisions, you know, didn't really, didn't really have that much effect. |
| 0:05.4 | This is the biggest change is that there's this 2% increase. |
| 0:09.3 | Well, it's not a 2% increase. |
| 0:11.0 | It's like a 25% increase. |
| 0:20.2 | Hello and welcome to episode 486 of the Thinking Elseat podcast. |
| 0:24.2 | I'm Nathan Fox. |
| 0:24.9 | With me is Ben Olson. |
| 0:26.0 | We're the co-founders of LSATDemon.com and the LSAT Demon Daily podcast. |
| 0:30.5 | If you want to be LSAT famous, you can share news and ask questions on our website, |
| 0:34.4 | Thinkinglsat.com. |
| 0:36.4 | We have a free class coming up on Saturday, January 18th, |
| 0:40.9 | plenty of time to register for that. It's going to be Saturday brunch logical reasoning. Ben, |
| 0:47.0 | you want to talk about that class at all? It looks like it's, oh yeah, this is Abbey's class |
| 0:52.4 | covering three logical reasoning questions bright and early on a Saturday morning. |
| 0:58.7 | Well, it depends where you are, I guess. |
| 0:59.8 | It's noon for East Coasters, 9 o'clock for West Coasters. |
| 1:04.2 | I mean, it's an hour-long class going over three questions. |
| 1:07.5 | I'm imagining he must dive deep into each question to help people understand |
| 1:11.7 | how to understand. Deeper you go, the more you get out of it. And when you start to really |
| 1:16.7 | understand the game, you realize that it's just kind of the same shit over and over and over. |
| 1:21.7 | I mean, is there an argument? What's wrong with the argument? You're already 85% of the way to the answer, |
| 1:30.6 | or in many cases, 100% of the way to the answer. We saw a note yesterday on Slack from a tutoring |
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