Lessons I Have Learned:
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semper ubi sub ubi. (lety - see, i'm a latin scholar too!! hahahhahahha!)
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do not solely rely on prep courses to improve your LSAT score. study on your own. i started with a 167 on my diagnostic for Kaplan, and i just assumed that my score would increase after taking a course. um, no, it definitely did not. i didn't really do extra practice tests or study outside of kaplan, and it shows. (i got the same score for my "real" lsat in september.) after reading on this forum about how ppl have improved so much after some hard work, i really regret not being one of those ppl. kaplan says that the average increase after taking their class is 7 points; i would have just taken 3 points. oh well. it's completely my fault (although in my defense, i was working at a full-time internship during the summer and got home at 8 PM each night, and then when school started, i had sports/work/scary classes all the time. oh, and b/c i was paranoid about not getting into law school, i was applying for banking jobs after college, and i did interviews at goldman sachs, jpmorgan, and morgan stanley THE WEEK OF THE LSAT.)
sidenote/summary: take an lsat class only if u know u can't study on your own. if u take the lsat seriously and set a specific time each day to study, u don't need a stinkin $1,000+ course. however, if u do take a class, do NOT solely rely on it as i did. u will not improve your score.
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i'm glad that i applied to just target/reach schools and no safeties. (although i might be saying something different if i didn't get accepted to any.) this is b/c law school isn't
necessary like going to undergrad is necessary. i knew if i didn't get accepted to my targets/reaches, then i could
always apply next year. being the elitist that i am, i didn't want to rush into law school for the sake of going to law school. i wanted to make sure that i got a premier education and go to a school i would be proud to call my own.
more to come..