The "Perfect" Personal Statement (Ep. 463)
Thinking LSAT
Nathan Fox and Ben Olson
4.8 • 868 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Your LSAT and GPA are the most important parts of your law school application, but a strong personal statement can set you apart from other applicants with similar numbers. What makes for a well-crafted personal statement? This week, Nathan and Ben pull no punches as they critique a listener’s essay through the eyes of harried admissions officers. The guys also delve into Logical Reasoning prediction methods, urge a listener to fire their awful tutor, and unpack a new report that casts doubt on the golden-ticket reputation of a law degree.
2:15 - Prediction and Review - The guys instruct LSAT Demon student Brian on how to review his mistakes. They emphasize prediction as crucial to success in Logical Reasoning.
13:09 - Awful Tutor - Nathan and Ben counsel an anonymous listener to fire their terrible LSAT tutor and to cut back on their full-time study. One to three quality hours of study per day is plenty.
23:26 - Comparative Passages - Ben and Nathan summarize their approach to comparative passages in Reading Comprehension.
28:34 - Tuition vs. Cost of Living - Listener Alex compares the cost to attend two in-state law schools. Nathan and Ben weigh Alex’s options and advise them to broaden their list of target schools.
35:26 - Earnings Outcomes - The guys discuss a Georgetown study on what lawyers are earning after four years of practice. Reuters’ Karen Sloan reports that outcomes vary wildly depending on which law school graduates attended.
45:14 - Personal Statement Review - Ben and Nathan give listener K a brutally honest appraisal of their personal statement.
1:07:25 - Word of the Week - Deposition is more than just a torturous legal exercise.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We stopped doing it because it just seemed bad for our mental health to continue giving personal statement advice and then realize that no one was actually implementing our advice. |
| 0:12.4 | Yeah, but by popular demand we are. one was actually implementing our advice. |
| 0:12.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:13.0 | But by popular demand, we are going to review Kay's personal statement. Hello and |
| 0:25.0 | welcome to episode 463 of the Thinking Elsat Podcast. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm Ben Olson. |
| 0:30.0 | With me is Nathan Fox. |
| 0:32.0 | We're the co-founder of El-Sat Demon.com and the |
| 0:34.1 | El-Sat Demon Daily Podcast. You can be El-Sat Famous, share news, and ask questions on our |
| 0:38.4 | website thinking El-Sat.com. Coming up on Saturday, July 20th at 1 PM Eastern, we have a free class with Allah |
| 0:48.6 | Plateau Pulverizer for logical reasoning and reading comprehension. |
| 0:54.0 | Allah is one of our most popular teachers. |
| 0:57.1 | I would highly encourage anyone listening to this. |
| 1:00.1 | If you have not come to a free class before, come to this one and learn how to break through your plateau if you even have one in logical reasoning or reading comprehension. |
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| 1:17.3 | Should we talk about our, you just got more demon? |
| 1:20.7 | Certainly. We just upgraded every plan in the demon by giving everybody a little bit more of something. |
| 1:29.7 | For the basic subscribers, we gave them all the explanations for the tests in Law Hub. |
| 1:35.0 | For the premium subscribers we gave them all of the past recorded classes. |
| 1:41.0 | For example, you could go back and watch dozens of Allah's Plateau-Pulverizer recordings. |
| 1:49.1 | If you decide you wanted to do that, you could just binge all of those old recorded classes. |
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