3.7, 167, Stanford grad - Could I get $ from any schools? Forum

[downbeat14]

OP, for the love of god, retake!

"retaking it would be hard at this point" is a terrible reason. If you only got a 5 point boost from your diagnostic you can make plenty more gains in scoring!

Adcomms care a lot less about your Stanford pedigree than the low (for the top schools) GPA they have to report to LSAC. You can get that LSAT up! Do it!

[ph14]

You are retaking. This is not an option. You got into Stanford, got a 3.7, and do not have a 173+? Retake, a quintillion times over is the only acceptable option.

Not everyone who gets into Stanford undergrad could score a 173+. Still, with the moderate but not exhaustive studying that OP has done you can't rule out a 170+ for him. OP should study again and retake. Good luck.

[filibuster]

you are so dumb. shutup and do research.

[ph14]

you are so dumb. shutup and do research.

For many/most people that are new to TLS and law school admissions, this is doing research.

[chuckbass]

you are so dumb. shutup and do research.

For many/most people that are new to TLS and law school admissions, this is doing research.

Also everything ph14 is saying is true...

[loomstate]

4 months 2-3 hours a day is a moderate amount of study time for a standardized test?

[cron1834]

4 months 2-3 hours a day is a moderate amount of study time for a standardized test?

By TLS standards this is probably "moderate" (it's about what I did). What are you questioning?

[middlebear]

4 months 2-3 hours a day is a moderate amount of study time for a standardized test?

So maybe this attitude will come back to bite me in the ass, but I'm with you. I work full-time and did so when I was studying for/taking the LSAT, I did not have time to study that much and don't particularly think that's healthy. I took a 100-hour class which was two nights a week, and then tried to do some practice logic games at least a couple more days of the week (probably every day in the last couple weeks before the test).

Love having the online community of fellow LS-crazies to talk to, but sometimes I think we're all hyping ourselves up and increasing the crazy spiral, if that makes sense.

[cotiger]

That's a hefty amount of studying. I spent 3 months doing 2 PTs a week, working back through the questions I got wrong. That's like 10 hrs/wk max. That's less than many people on here, and I'm still skeptical of the value of that last month. TLS retake mantra is legit. TLS LSAT studying is way overkill.