The Full Ride Formula (Ep. 546)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.6 • 886 Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Reagan writes in after following Ben and Nathan’s advice from a previous episode to retake the LSAT and reapply. She shares her success story, including multiple full-ride offers and additional stipends.
Also in this episode:
- How an older applicant can best prepare.
- A student gets waitlisted…for the waitlist.
- The guys react to Nathan’s nephew’s argumentative essay.
Check out all of our “What’s the Deal With” segments
Get caught up with our Word of the Week library
0:00 Older Applicant
8:43 Waitlist for a Waitlist
18:19 Retake & Reapply Results
31:42 Test D Question — Room for Dessert
48:42 Tips from Departing Demons
54:02 Accommodation Solicitation
57:04 Reaching Out for a Grade Change
1:07:35 Argumentative Essay on Meat Pizza
1:18:53 Word of the Week — paucity
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This cycle, I've received admissions offers at nine out of 16 schools. |
| 0:05.2 | Highlights were an admission to T-14. |
| 0:07.7 | Just to recap, last year, Reagan was about to accept a close to full-ride offer. |
| 0:15.2 | Now Reagan has on the table stipend offers, like actually getting a check. |
| 0:33.2 | Hello and welcome to episode 546 of the Thinking ElSat podcast. I'm Nathan Fox with me as Ben Olson. We're the co-founders of Elsaat Demon.com and and the Elset Demon Daily podcast. We're going to kick |
| 0:39.5 | it off with an email from Rose, who says she is considering online law school and curious |
| 0:49.0 | about realistic employment outcomes for older students. Okay. |
| 0:55.1 | Hi, Elsaid Demon Team. |
| 0:56.5 | I started my journey by purchasing the LSAT as easy. |
| 1:00.0 | That's our book on Amazon. |
| 1:02.2 | And I'm now a subscriber. |
| 1:03.8 | The book, Platform, and the podcast have been a huge help as I prepare to take the |
| 1:07.3 | L set later this year and apply next cycle. |
| 1:09.9 | I don't have legal experience, |
| 1:11.7 | but I do have years of experience in a structured policy slash accreditation heavy environment |
| 1:19.8 | in medical education. Okay. I live in an area in Florida where there are no part-time |
| 1:27.4 | evening law programs with two very busy schedules. My husband and I also do the best we can raising our four-year-old. I would love to attend school in person, but an online law program is the most realistic option for me. I'll be 38 when I start. I keep hearing that I have two strikes against me, |
| 1:47.9 | being a, and quote, older student and attending an online program, making it harder to get hired |
| 1:56.2 | after the bar. Some people have even suggested I should work as a paralegal or a law clerk first, |
| 2:01.7 | even with a JD. Why would you do that? I mean, that doesn't, I suppose if you can't, |
| 2:08.5 | yeah, if you can't get a job, a lawyer job with your JD, then I suppose you could do that. |
| 2:14.9 | But if that's your plan going in, just don't even bother getting a JD. |
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