Being an LSAT Tutor

[lsatquestion]

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[milanproda]

Congrats on the score, very impressive

[Micdiddy]

Being an LSAT tutor is the best job I have ever had. I highly doubt schools will kook down on it, especially if you're with a reputable company and not just Craigslisting everything.
Do it.

[Sounder89]

I'm in almost the exact same situation, got a 176, taking a gap year and applied this cycle. I'm starting at TestMasters in March. If you're serious about tutoring you should apply ASAP, so you can get trained an everything before June LSAT classes start up.

[gaud]

Being an LSAT tutor is the best job I have ever had. I highly doubt schools will kook down on it, especially if you're with a reputable company and not just Craigslisting everything.
Do it.

+1. Easy money.

[doing_it_in_a_car]

I think softs will actually matter to Y and S. You could split your time between tutoring and volunteering for something you're interested in.

Also, I think the nature of your pre-LS work experience generally matters less to law schools and more to legal employers.

[Elston Gunn]

I think softs will actually matter to Y and S. You could split your time between tutoring and volunteering for something you're interested in.

Also, I think the nature of your pre-LS work experience generally matters less to law schools and more to legal employers.

+1

Though there are definitely a few people in the current Yale class who were test prep tutors for a their gap year, despite assumptions.

[lsatquestion]

Awesome! Thanks for all the help guys; I'm constantly impressed by how nice people are on TLS. It's definitely given me some food for thought.

[North]

I'm constantly impressed by how nice people are on TLS.

There's a first.

[Rahviveh]

Don't assume you'll get hired just because of your score. It is not easy to get a gig with Testmasters or BP because of their intensive training. PS is a little easier. PR and Kaplan will hire just about anyone I guess, but they don't pay as much. It will also depend on demand in your area and how many instructors they need. I'm in a major market and all the companies are having trouble filling classes lately.

[CyanIdes Of March]

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[B90]

First, congrats on your score. I am sure you worked hard, and I assume you followed some sort of "plan". If you are able to explain your plan to others and teach them your tips and thought process, THAT is what will make you a good tutor. Basically a high score is necessary but not sufficient to successfully tutor others.
If you are wanting to work for a company, they will be most concerned about your ability to teach and work well with others, as well as your reliability. It is still a job after all. They are a business. You are the product they are selling. They want satisfied customers.
Your score will get you an interview, but your teaching ability and enthusiasm will get you the job. A good tutor is much harder to find than someone with a high score who wants to make some extra cash.

[banjo]

I tutor the LSAT on a casual basis and enjoy it, but I would try to find full-time work first. Not as easy, but you develop some important skills that might translate well in a 1L or 2L summer job.

[Crowing]

Getting a job with Craplan seems really easy; I threw them a half-assed app out of desperation last year and they literally e-mailed me twice and repeatedly called my home and cell phones to try to get me to interview. It doesn't pay well, but it's better than retail I guess.

[B90]

Getting a job with Craplan seems really easy; I threw them a half-assed app out of desperation last year and they literally e-mailed me twice and repeatedly called my home and cell phones to try to get me to interview. It doesn't pay well, but it's better than retail I guess.

Getting an interview with K is easy. Part of their advertising is that they hire one out of every six interviewees and reject five out of every six interviewees. In order to do this they need to aquire an absurd number of applicants in order for them to be able to hire enough to fill their open positions.

[Crocodile Duck]

Will you work at Blueprint?

[sabanist]

Getting a job with Craplan seems really easy; I threw them a half-assed app out of desperation last year and they literally e-mailed me twice and repeatedly called my home and cell phones to try to get me to interview. It doesn't pay well, but it's better than retail I guess.

Getting an interview with K is easy. Part of their advertising is that they hire one out of every six interviewees and reject five out of every six interviewees. In order to do this they need to aquire an absurd number of applicants in order for them to be able to hire enough to fill their open positions.

They dinged me with a 177 - turns out a grad student at my school already teaches the course, but they were advertising it as open anyway. I was pretty pissed to jump through hoops only to boost their "selectivity."
On the bright side, I got to go back to talking shit about them as a company pretty much immediately

[donmincho]

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[Crocodile Duck]

Hey dudes. BP instructor here. Definitely apply to work at Blueprint, it's great. But be prepared for an intense interview process--we hire about 5% of applicants, all of whom had to have a 170+.

FWIW, BP is basically Testmasters but a bit refined and much, much more fun.

Good luck!

I don't think Trent Tetti or Matt would like BP being compared to testmasters.....especially after that lawsuit....just saying....

[donmincho]

Yeah well...Testmasters is a good company, I think anyone at BP would admit that, but we're better, and way more fun. That's all.

[Rahviveh]

Hey dudes. BP instructor here. Definitely apply to work at Blueprint, it's great. But be prepared for an intense interview process--we hire about 5% of applicants, all of whom had to have a 170+.

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Good luck!

This is also because BP has way less instructor spots open than Testmasters. Its much harder to get a job with BP and that's why they pay more.

[rvadog]

This is also because BP has way less instructor spots open than Testmasters. Its much harder to get a job with BP and that's why they pay more.

I know this one.

C) Commenter is interpreting two independent characteristics as having a cause-effect relationship when none exists.

In all seriousness, they don't pay more because they have less instructor spots. That doesn't make sense. They pay more because they want the best instructors and they have to compete for that limited resource with other companies.

[Rahviveh]

This is also because BP has way less instructor spots open than Testmasters. Its much harder to get a job with BP and that's why they pay more.

I know this one.

C) Commenter is interpreting two independent characteristics as having a cause-effect relationship when none exists.

In all seriousness, they don't pay more because they have less instructor spots. That doesn't make sense. They pay more because they want the best instructors and they have to compete for that limited resource with other companies.

LOL. Lemme guess, BP employee?

BP classes are twice the size of TM and PS, of course they can pay the instructor more when he's essentially doing the same thing.

I was pointing to the limited openings they have compared to competitors to explain why they are so selective.

[donmincho]

This is also because BP has way less instructor spots open than Testmasters. Its much harder to get a job with BP and that's why they pay more.

I know this one.

C) Commenter is interpreting two independent characteristics as having a cause-effect relationship when none exists.

In all seriousness, they don't pay more because they have less instructor spots. That doesn't make sense. They pay more because they want the best instructors and they have to compete for that limited resource with other companies.

Here's how it works. We pay our instructors more and work backwards. We don't have as many classes because we can't afford to have classes with only 10-20 students, like Testmasters or Powerscore (and Kaplan even more so), when we're paying our instructors so much. We have the lowest profit margins of any prep company, but our central philosophy is that if we have the best instructors, students will want to take our courses.

[lsatquestion]

I'm constantly impressed by how nice people are on TLS.

There's a first.

I mean, sure, there are trolls, but I think it's pretty awesome that people are willing to take time out of their quite probably busy day to answer questions posted by people they've never, and will never, meet.

First, congrats on your score.

Thanks!

Will you work at Blueprint?

Quite possibly. It depends on
1) Whether they'll hire me
2) How good their pay is (let's be honest--this is a pretty huge factor).

Definitely apply to work at Blueprint, it's great. But be prepared for an intense interview process--we hire about 5% of applicants, all of whom had to have a 170+.

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Good luck!

Thanks! I definitely appreciate your enthusiasm.