Personal Statement-Palooza (Ep. 310)

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

The start of the 2022 application cycle is almost here. Anyone following Ben and Nathan’s advice is going to apply in early September with their best LSAT score—and with a fact-based personal statement that portrays a winner. On this week’s episode, the guys reprise their roles as mock law-school gatekeepers and evaluate three more personal statements. Spoiler: They don’t make it through any of them.

Here’s one tidbit of advice for any listeners who are writing a personal statement: Think about what reaction the reader is likely to have after reading each sentence. Then ask yourself whether that sentence presents a fact about you that puts your best foot forward and makes them closer to accepting you.

Before diving into Personal Statement-Palooza, Nathan and Ben discuss a lengthy Pearls vs. Turds candidate, answer a logical reasoning question from PrepTest 73, and remind you why you should never miss a Sufficient Assumption question. Read more on our website!

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0:00.0	The following podcast uses words that lawyers don't use in court, even though they're thinking them. Hello and welcome to episode 3 10 of the Thinking Elseat Podcast.
0:15.0	Today on the show we talked about a lot of good things.
0:18.0	We did tackle three personal statements in the same way that we did before
0:21.0	where we read them
0:23.4	until we couldn't read them anymore.
0:23.8	We didn't make it through any of them.
0:25.3	We started three personal statements.
0:29.9	We kind of skimmed most of them.
0:32.4	Yeah. I would say that we went through them further than we. kind of skimmed most of them.
0:32.8	I would say that we went through them further than we probably would have.
0:36.7	We went through them further than we probably should have in retrospect.
0:41.2	But we like to give people value for their money here at thinking else.
0:44.0	We're searching for something of merit, right? But it's like no.
0:48.0	Yeah. So anyways, that was that. We also went through a horrible turd of advice that was posted on some
0:59.1	website and we talked about that and we did a logical reasoning question.
1:03.6	Yeah, specifically a sufficient assumption question,
1:06.6	which you need to learn how to do sufficient assumption questions
1:10.1	because you should never, ever miss a sufficient assumption question.
1:13.6	It's free points.
1:14.6	It's easy money.
1:15.8	Yep.
1:16.6	You got to learn how to get them right.
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