Know this is "College" but a question on the "LSAT"

[Anonymous]

OK realize this is a college thread...so kick this poster off to a different thread if necessary but DD is now a sophomore at school and is preparing to address the LSAT next summer. Looking for guidance on prep services etc. and/or experiences with the exam.

TIA.

[Anonymous]

Best advice - take a few yrs off, teach English in a 3rd world country, see more of the world, then worry about law school. There's just no hurry. I had 5 yrs btw undergrad and going to law school - I've now been practicing 18 yr and taking 5 yr off was a great idea.

[Anonymous]

Also great advice, don't go to any law school. Harvard, Yale, top 10 otherwise you are screwed in the job market.

[Anonymous]

Top 5 or you're screwed. Actually, don't go if you don't get into Harvard or Yale.

[Anonymous]

I did a Kaplan course. I ended up with a score that was in the 170s and got a full ride. Highly recommend.

[Anonymous]

OP, as a Harvard Law alum, I fully agree with the PPs above. Wow I was really brainwashed when I went there. I wish I had had at least a year of post-college real world work experience to inoculate me from that ivory-tower echo chamber.

And also the market is saturated right now and I don't advise law school.

But now, to your question. I probably took Kaplan or something. Maybe Princeton Review. The following is what I think is important: I took every past LSAT I could get my hands on (and at the time they changed the timing and format, but I took them anyways). You don't want to blow a question because your timing was off, or you left one blank and then forgot so mis-matched your answers, etc. There are many ways to make a dumb mistake, and practice gets those mistakes made, and then out of your system.

I also had a See's Candy (throwing in the name just for the west-coast DCUMers) to give my brain a small shot of glucose around 1/2 way through. LOL my scientist dad told me to do this. Don't go overboard because if she does, she'll crash…just a little, and not sucrose/etc…fruit or nuts is probably best but don't know if that's possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top 5 or you're screwed. Actually, don't go if you don't get into Harvard or Yale.

lol, ok it isn't THAT bad. Penn is outside t5 and places really well for jobs.

It is all about risk tolerance.

I would even recommend that it is worth it to go outside of the t14, probably outside the t14 i would only recommend UT, Vandy, and UCLA -> but those three you should get 50-75% minimum off your tuition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, as a Harvard Law alum, I fully agree with the PPs above. Wow I was really brainwashed when I went there. I wish I had had at least a year of post-college real world work experience to inoculate me from that ivory-tower echo chamber.

And also the market is saturated right now and I don't advise law school.

But now, to your question. I probably took Kaplan or something. Maybe Princeton Review. The following is what I think is important: I took every past LSAT I could get my hands on (and at the time they changed the timing and format, but I took them anyways). You don't want to blow a question because your timing was off, or you left one blank and then forgot so mis-matched your answers, etc. There are many ways to make a dumb mistake, and practice gets those mistakes made, and then out of your system.

I also had a See's Candy (throwing in the name just for the west-coast DCUMers) to give my brain a small shot of glucose around 1/2 way through. LOL my scientist dad told me to do this. Don't go overboard because if she does, she'll crash…just a little, and not sucrose/etc…fruit or nuts is probably best but don't know if that's possible.

i second the See's Candy. because it's delicious and they give you a free piece even when you just buy a ten cent lollipop (do they still do that?).

also, i millionth the re-consider law school advice. the job market blows and i can guarantee you 100% the practice is not what your daughter is picturing.

[Anonymous]

Show your daughter that clip. That'll put her right off the thought of going into corporate work.

[Anonymous]

Hahaha, Wharton. The kids you got rejected from HBS.