Read Like a Lawyer (Ep. 338)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2022
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Ben and Nathan take another dive into the listener mailbag and answer questions about law school admissions. Tune in to hear about an update to the LSAT Demon Scholarship Estimator, GPA addendum advice, a critique of JFK’s Harvard application essay, and more! Then, the guys discuss an undergraduate scholarship program that offers pre-law experience to minorities. Finally, they demonstrate how to “read like a lawyer” while dissecting a logical reasoning question from PrepTest 73.
As always, if you like the show and you want to get more from the Thinking LSAT community, check out the links below. You can connect with other folks studying for the LSAT and get more useful resources from Nathan and Ben.
13:04 - Scholarship Estimator Update
18:01 - A 24-Point Score Increase
31:09 - Admissions Questions from a Former Therapist
50:35 - Nathan Takes a Dig at the Team
55:35 - JFK’s Harvard Application Essay
1:00:09 - LSAC PLUS Program
1:08:07 - Test 73, Section 4, Question 5
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast uses words that lawyers don't use in court, |
| 0:03.6 | even though they're thinking them. Hello and |
| 0:13.0 | welcome to episode 338 of the Thinking of That Podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | This will air on Monday, February 21st, 2022. |
| 0:20.0 | The next registration deadline is Wednesday, March 16th, and that's for the April |
| 0:25.6 | L-Sat. Good luck if you're shooting for that. Right now we have the February L-Sat, |
| 0:31.6 | what, it's going. Okay, it's going right now but it by the time this |
| 0:35.7 | airs I guess it will be over so good hope that went well for you all and then the |
| 0:40.6 | March else that is starting the week of March 11th. If you have not come to Nathan's March |
| 0:47.4 | 2022 Elsat study group yet I would strongly implore you to come. Is that the right word? |
| 0:53.3 | implore to implore someone. |
| 0:54.8 | Yeah, you just don't need that. |
| 0:56.0 | Strongly, yeah. |
| 0:57.4 | I really strongly severely ask you |
| 1:02.2 | to stop what you're doing. That is how everyone speaks. We all speak in that manner. And you should just go ahead and write it that way the first time you write it. Then when you go back and edit it you can take out the strongly |
| 1:16.3 | because implore is such a beautiful word. It is excellent. implore means strongly, well, should we look it up yeah why not you can keep going |
| 1:27.4 | I'll look okay you look it up anyways I employ you to come to that because one it's |
| 1:31.4 | free you only need a demon free account so you go to |
| 1:34.2 | else had demon.com you sign up for a free account it's every Thursday at 4 p.m. |
| 1:39.1 | Pacific 7 p.m. eastern if you have time to watch shows on Netflix or whatever, you have time to come |
| 1:46.5 | to Nathan's class and it will do much more for your future than anything else on Netflix. |
| 1:53.8 | Anyways, today on the show, |
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