Conflicting Advice Forum
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Icculus
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Conflicting Advice
I am friends with a lawyer who graduated from New England, and have been arguing with her for the past two months about whether to retake the LSAT. I scored a 165, and am aiming to score a 170+. She seems to think that a retake will, "do no good, law schools will see both scores and a higher score will not help that much." This is from a discussion tonight. I am positive that a retake is the right move, especially considering the low amount of studying I did the first time through. The question, I guess, is why would someone who spends their time teaching the LSAT and bar have such a different take than most people I've spoken to here? Is it that big of a secret that law schools usually take the highest score as opposed to averaging?
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Sh@keNb@ke
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Re: Conflicting Advice
+1dub wrote:Retake.
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NU_Jet55
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Re: Conflicting Advice
Titcrdub wrote:Retake.
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Na_Swatch
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Re: Conflicting Advice
The reason for this is due to the fact that the shift to considering only the highest LSAT score is a relatively recent move for most schools. Just 5 years ago multiple scores were weighed a lot more heavily by a lot more schools than today.mjcaccio wrote:I am friends with a lawyer who graduated from New England, and have been arguing with her for the past two months about whether to retake the LSAT. I scored a 165, and am aiming to score a 170+. She seems to think that a retake will, "do no good, law schools will see both scores and a higher score will not help that much." This is from a discussion tonight. I am positive that a retake is the right move, especially considering the low amount of studying I did the first time through. The question, I guess, is why would someone who spends their time teaching the LSAT and bar have such a different take than most people I've spoken to here? Is it that big of a secret that law schools usually take the highest score as opposed to averaging?
This is probably why people who are lawyers or have been teaching for a while have a different take as they aren't as familiar with the new system.
Same issue arises with all those people who got hired before ITE.
