Should a HS senior take the LSAT in Sept? Forum

[metroidbum]

Obvious troll is obvious

[Caesar Salad]

I mean honestly, even if you totally disregard everything that is said about your current career aspirations ITT, take heart to the advice not to waste your summer studying for this test. Spend time with your friends going off to different schools, because it may well be the last time you get to spend a lot of meaningful time with them. And spend time with your family too, especially if you are going away to school.

There are a lot of things you should be concerned about doing this summer, but none of them involve locking yourself in your room and studying for something that won't be relevant until at least four years have passed, those four years being some of the most formative years of your entire life.

And if you really don't care about enjoying the one life you were given, at the time when it should be incredibly enjoyable, then take solace in the fact that by waiting two or three years to study for the LSAT, you'll be better equipped to do so when the time comes. In college, your reading abilities should only improve, as well as your critical thinking skills.

What WaltGrace said is so credited. Go into college with an open mind and you'll get so much more out of it. Also, if you don't study abroad as often as you can, you are doing wrong.

The idea that OP has friends is lol-worthy

[Rexdan]

I got close to a 160 when I took a practice test out of a princeton review book, untimed, and when I was shifting from dealing with customers (worked as a bank teller at one point) to dealing with the test. My thought was: "hey, this doesn't seem all that bad. I bet with some serious studying, I'd be hitting 170-180 in no time at all!" Well, to put it mildly, you can study for hours on end, but if your mindset doesn't transition from real life to LSAT world, it really won't matter all that much, and you'll still be getting the same average score, which is exactly what happened to me. My suggestion would be to take a proctored practice test before making a decision, and make sure that it's for a practice test that you've never seen before. My point is, you can't really gauge your current potential from an untimed practice test.

Also, as others have pointed out, your mind may change throughout college. I know it did for me. At one point I was even considering dropping my pursuit towards a legal career altogether and head straight into pharmaceutical, or neuropsychology, or psychotherapy, or get my MFA, or move to Greenwich Village and live out my days as a starving artist. You'll make a whole bunch of new friends in college; your diversity bank will expand as you learn (it will happen almost immediately if you take Gen Eds); and you'll have far more experience than you do now after you go through college.

It's really a toss up as to whether or not you should take the LSAT this September. I highly recommend that you take a proctored practice test before making that decision, and even then, you also have to remember, as others have pointed out, that your score is not there to stay indefinitely; you may or may not have to retake it after college, if law school is still your goal.

Hope that helps.