Personal Statement Gamble (Ep. 551)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.6 • 886 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2026
⏱️ 100 minutes
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Summary
A listener asks whether they should include their experience as a professional poker player in their application materials. Ben and Nathan advise that they should. Pursuing something at a professional level demonstrates a meaningful commitment and a proven ability.
Also in this episode:
- A law school with an endless amount of fees
- Whether you should attend an online law program
- When conditional scholarships become predatory
Check out all of our “What’s the Deal With” segments
Get caught up with our Word of the Week library
0:00 William & Mary’s Law School Fees
13:38 Attending an Online Law School
23:06 Predicting Role Questions
33:23 Working as a Professional Gambler
48:20 LSAC Guided Plus Program
1:03:22 Accepting a Conditional Scholarship
1:19:08 Ohio Northern’s Summer Program
1:33:10 Word of the week — effusive
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Can gambling be a positive for admissions? |
| 0:04.0 | Poker is like a very American game. |
| 0:07.5 | I think you should flip your mindset entirely and just expect that people are going to eat this up. |
| 0:19.4 | Hello and welcome to episode 551 of the Thinking ElSat podcast. |
| 0:24.3 | I'm Ben Olson. |
| 0:25.2 | With me is Nathan Fox. |
| 0:26.8 | We're the co-founders of Elstaddemon.com and the Elsaat Demon Daily podcast. |
| 0:32.7 | All right. |
| 0:33.1 | This first item is about law school fees. |
| 0:37.2 | Apparently user tradition gloomy 1775 on R. L.Sat Demon posted the breakdown of William |
| 0:45.9 | and Mary's extensive fees. |
| 0:49.1 | Yeah, this is R slash LSAT Demon, by the way, if you want to join the conversation on Reddit, |
| 0:54.0 | since we continue to be |
| 0:55.5 | basically shadow banned from R slash LSAT, you can go to instead R slash El Sat demon and have a conversation |
| 1:04.0 | with demon teachers and students on that forum. So there's a breakdown of William and Mary's kind of crazy fees. |
| 1:16.0 | This is from William and Mary's website. |
| 1:18.6 | Okay. |
| 1:18.9 | So there are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten items for out ofof-state students, there's 10 items here. |
| 1:32.2 | The big ticket items are tuition of 31,450. |
| 1:38.3 | But then there's also a bunch of fees. |
| 1:42.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:42.9 | Tech fee, student faculty fee, building fees, facility fees, several different building |
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