RIP T14 (Ep. 554)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.6 • 886 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
The updated rankings for law schools have dropped! Ben and Nathan discuss the changes, the schools that refused to participate, and what applicants should actually focus on when choosing a law school to attend.
Also in this episode
- Law school marketing emails wishing students good luck on the LSAT
- Whether to drop a class and graduate late to preserve their GPA
- Another Personal Statement Gong Show contestant
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0:00 USNews 2026 Rankings26:17 #thirstylawschools
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1:05:19 Dropping Courses
1:11:46 Personal Statement Gong Show
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We're going to start off today talking about the brand new U.S. News rankings. |
| 0:04.3 | We report on it like it's sports, you know, like, ooh, Yale dropped to number two in the rankings for the first time ever. |
| 0:11.2 | The bottom line here, right, is that the rankings go up and down. |
| 0:14.5 | It's almost like a reality TV show, but no one actually cares. |
| 0:27.1 | Yeah. But no one actually cares. Hello and welcome to episode 554 of the Thinking El-Sat podcast. |
| 0:31.1 | I'm Nathan Fox. |
| 0:31.7 | With me is Ben Olson. |
| 0:33.0 | We're the co-founders of El-SatDemon.com and the El-Sat Demon Daily podcast. |
| 0:36.9 | We're going to start off today |
| 0:38.0 | talking about the brand new US news rankings that just dropped. We already had a podcast episode |
| 0:44.5 | out days ago on our other podcast, ElSat Demon Daily, so you can get my hot takes there. Ben, |
| 0:51.0 | you listened to that. Did I get anything wrong or right in those hot takes? |
| 0:54.8 | I'm sure I probably got everything wrong. No, it sounded good to me. The bottom line here, right, |
| 1:01.1 | is that the rankings go up and down. It's almost like a reality TV show, but no one actually |
| 1:07.6 | cares. Well, the people who actually care are, you know, applicants because they don't realize how little year-to-year changes in the rankings actually matter. |
| 1:22.2 | Because applicants care about it, the schools themselves, at least in the admissions departments, or those functions of the school have to care about it, the schools themselves, at least in the admissions departments, or those functions of |
| 1:29.5 | the school have to care about it. We report on it like it's sports, you know, like, oh, Yale dropped |
| 1:36.5 | to number two in the rankings for the first time ever. But, you know, do you think anything different |
| 1:41.8 | is happening on campus at Yale today? They're probably |
| 1:45.5 | talking about it. They're probably laughing about it. Yeah, yeah. And I imagine some people are |
| 1:52.1 | asking themselves, okay, should we do anything about this? Do we want to regain supremacy |
| 1:59.3 | over all other law schools. |
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