Personal Statement-stravaganza (Ep. 309)

Thinking LSAT

Nathan Fox and Ben Olson

Education

4.8 • 868 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

It’s the first-ever Thinking LSAT Personal Statement-stravaganza! In this special episode, Nathan and Ben become mock law school admissions officers as they read and compare four personal statements. There’s a catch—they read only to the point where they would decide to admit or deny the applicant.

Admissions committees have mountains of applications to drudge through. Realistically, they aren’t reading every single essay from beginning to end. Odds are they already have a good idea of what their decision is going to be based on an applicant’s GPA and LSAT score. A cursory look at the personal statement may be all they need to confirm that decision. Read more on our website!

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.0	One definition of explicit language is,
0:06.0	stated clearly and in detail,
0:09.0	leaving no room for confusion or doubt.
0:11.0	That's why we use those words.
0:13.7	Hello and welcome to episode 309 of the Thinking Elsat Podcast.
0:23.7	Today on the show we're doing something a little bit different.
0:26.3	We're doing our first ever Elsat personal statement,
0:29.4	Stravagansa, where we're going to go through four personal statements and not all the way
0:35.7	through those four personal statements. We're going to read them as far as we can
0:40.4	stomach and at the point where we would give up either because we're going to admit you or because
0:45.7	we're going to deny you we're going to stop reading the statement at that point and make some comments
0:49.8	about why we why we're stopping where we're stopping.
0:55.0	Ben, any comments on that process?
0:57.5	No.
0:58.4	We recorded it in advance.
0:59.7	I thought that it went pretty well.
1:01.0	I think that there's a lot of useful advice there. Let us know what you think.
1:06.0	Yeah, please do email help at thinking else at.com and let us know what you think about the
1:10.5	statement, Treravaganza.
1:13.0	This episode is going to air on Monday, August 2nd.
1:17.7	That means we are less than two weeks away
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