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While there is a sizeable number of STEM majors who go for JD, there don't seem to very many engineers with long work-ex in the industry getting JDs. Anyone here from engineering workforce, particularly silicon valley tech or CS/EE engineering, who's going to law school? What are your reasons for go...

LSAC has just announced that the November 2020 exam will be an LSAT-Flex, confirming our suspicions that the remainder of this year's tests will be taken from home. They have also moved up the date of the first November tests by a week, from November 14th to November 7th. Along with the earlier sta...

shouldn't it be c/o 2024 instead of 2023?

Hey all, So I'm a HYPSM (Harvard,Yale,Princeton,Stanford,MIT) recent college graduate, and I originally planned on spending a few months after college graduation to study full-time for the LSAT before I would join the Peace Corps or some kind of intensive full-time program. Problem is, the LSAT did...

interesting read today http://nautil.us/issue/47/consciousness ... t-feelings

this one is ~3200 words. kinda of like a less denser text than lsat rc out of which one could make a denser lsat rc passage, which are ~500 words.

I am weighing the pros and cons of submitting an addendum to my law school applications "explaining" my LSAT scores, which range 18 points(162-168-180) over a three-year period. Some advisors have recommended the addendum, but the more I talk to them, the more it seems that the risks outweigh the b...

regarding subvocalization, i mean i have a kind of faint voice thing running in my head where it's saying some words or may be just some important syllables of them and sometimes deciphering or comprehending meaning just from seeing its shape (like for prepositions or connectors but for some common ...

i'm not sure but i think i read somewhere everyone sub-vocalizes to an extent as brain's comprehension seems to require it, like a continuum. that's why speed-reading was kind of controversial imo. but also i have heard that some people do speed-read and 1.5 min-2 min reading the passage and compreh...

FWIW, RC was natural to me (to be sure, my only natural section), and really the only thing I can suggest is icechicken’s advice just to read a ton. I’ve always read really fast and always finished the RC with time to spare, even with my diagnostic. Unfortunately I can’t really give any concrete ad...

were you always able to read so quickly even the difficult passages, or how much practice, pts, or drilling you did in order to get there? anything you did in your college education or prior that helped (besides the reading newspaper tip)? wondering if you sub-vocalize internally or not? 1.5-2min re...

You only have about 8 minutes per subsection, so spending 4 minutes just to read the passage sounds way too high to me. Are you heavily annotating them? Even if you find it helpful to mark up the text, you can't afford to spend a ton of time on it. When I took the test, I would just read the passag...

I took the official test many years ago but recently began reconsidering a retake. The most tricky section for me was RC which i found difficult to get better at even after doing umpteen pts. i have a low 17x score, but my RC was like -8/-5 range mostly. it was also paper-based. timing was the main ...

I've made some posts on reddit before, but wanted to ask some other forums to get feedback as well. I had a bit of a rough cycle. I applied across the entire T14 and a few T25, and was waitlisted pretty much everywhere aside from Berkeley. Berkeley offered me $75,000, but in the end I just couldn't...

I was wondering how different and difficult the computer-based LSAT is compared to older paper-based LSAT. It seems like RC and LG would be nightmares on the computer not to speak of the difficulty of reading on a device. I took the paper based test many years ago but was reached short by a few poin...

Hello forum participants - I realize this is an older post but I relate so much to it that I could not help but reply. I am a junior associate who was recently fired from a top tier law firm where I worked for two years. One thing that frustrates me is that many times while at the firm I often woul...

I think 172 is a strong score even for hls and your profile seems p strong to me. what was your major?

I currently have a 3.88 GPA, just 0.01 below CLS and NYU's 75 percentile GPA, and UPenn's median. I am a senior graduating in August. Would it be worth it for me to take a number of online community college classes just to push my GPA to 3.89 to maximize my chances at these schools? Thanks! don't t...

Hi all, I'm consistently getting -1 on my LR sections and -2 on RC, and I just don't know how to get those last few points. I have the LSAT trainer, but I've found the LR and RC material in it to be way too easy and unhelpful for those few questions. I know this is a good problem to have but would ...

someone is hawking an ebook about how to write onto law review. why don't we crowdsource, compile some tips here? the best tip i got about the write on competition was to read the bluebook, front to back, applying each rule to the bluebooking exercise. i caught a ton of minor stuff this way (and it...

retake.

how did and how long you prepped the last go?

any competitions like the above link i posted where one could give it a shot even if not a law student? i really liked that it wasn't too long, only 4000-7500 words (not including footnotes).

i was looking at this https://www.georgetowntech.org/writingcompetition just to make the abstract idea of a publication more real to conjure, to have something to talk about with potential collaborators, and have something of a rough deadline, until i found that these are open only to law students.

wow, that means hunter biden must have done really well if his gulc grades made transfer even plausible (considering how tough yls transfer is). it doesn't seem he graduated YLS with any latin honors though, which is a bit surprising considering he must have had almost top grades after 1L.

*please don't quote yeah, IP issues can be very tricky but i don't plan to let work know about it or use ideas that are developed from work. i intend research to be related to generic ideas about machine learning (that are already in the public domain). related to cold emailing profs, i put together...

After a year at Georgetown, Hunter transferred to Yale Law, where he completed his degree, in 1996.

regarding biden's son, was it based on his law school performance or could it be influence?