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Re: taking LSAT 3 times look bad?

Post by ManoftheHour » Mon Jul 06, 2015 11:32 pm

Number of apps are dropping like crazy. So no.

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Re: taking LSAT 3 times look bad?

Post by Good Guy Gaud » Mon Jul 06, 2015 11:33 pm

You'd be foolish not to take it again.

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Re: taking LSAT 3 times look bad?

Post by AReasonableMan » Mon Jul 06, 2015 11:42 pm

rfhassan wrote:Hi All,
I'm an AA with a 4.0 gpa, I have so far taken the lsat twice, 161, 159, and I was considering taking it a 3rd time, however I am stressing out about what the T14 schools will think about it, specifically the T6 schools. I was PTing in the upper 160's and low 170's so I don't know what keeps happening to me each time I take the test. Anyways, if I retake, I will do something different and try a new study method, because clearly what I was doing wasn't working

And if I don't retake, will dropping 2 points on my 2nd take look bad?

Thanks!
No. You're an AA applicant with a 4.0 GPA. You could probably pull a t-6 now, but if you could improve your score to a 170 you would have a full ride to every school Columbia on down, and would probably get into every law school in the country. I'm not saying you should take the LSAT 20 times, but even if you did, if you're above the UGPA median, the LSAT median and offer the diversity of being an AA applicant, you would be the most valuable applicant in the pool from a rankings standpoint.

If a non-URM had a 4.0 and 180, they'd be above 2 medians. You would be above the same 2 medians. If a school has a 169 median, the 180 vs. 170 isn't all that material. By virtue of the weight your background carries in the USNews rankings formula, you are the more valuable applicant. It really wouldn't matter what your other scores are, because there would only be a dozen or so people in the entire country who could match your value. You'd have good options now, but could conceivably retake and be one of the most eligible applicants in the entire field.

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Re: taking LSAT 3 times look bad?

Post by ManoftheHour » Mon Jul 06, 2015 11:52 pm

Agreed with the last post. If I were you and bombed the 3rd time, I'd actually wait for eligibility so I could take a 4th time and get that HYS or CCN for free.

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Re: taking LSAT 3 times look bad?

Post by Clearly » Tue Jul 07, 2015 12:18 am

I took it three times, performed exactly as you'd expect with my high score.

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Re: taking LSAT 3 times look bad?

Post by Yeezus » Tue Jul 07, 2015 1:41 am

No, do it. I somewhat underperformed my numbers based on my final high score, but that could be for any number of reasons. I still had a much better result than I would have gotten had I not taken the LSAT a 3rd time.

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