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I'm trying to figure out if I should postpone until October, and the people I know IRL don't know the first thing about law school admissions, so hopefully y'all have some solid advice for me

Here's the deal: I took the LSAT 2 years ago with about 1.5 months of prep and got a 167, which wasn't high enough for the schools I'm looking at. Took a couple years off from thinking about law school with the expectation I would apply this cycle.

I've been studying for about 2.5 months for the June LSAT. My "cold" diagnostic, which wasn't all that cold since I studied 2 years ago, was 165, and my average score is about a 170 with a high of 175, low 167, about 8 timed tests. Three weeks ago I was consistently scoring 170+, but ever since then my scores have steadily decreased by 1-2 points on each test (08 and 09s). I usually get -1 or -0 when I take individual sections or individual games/passages, but string them all together and I start to get things wrong. At this point I think I'm just psyching myself out.

I'm not confident in my ability to score in my target next week, but I'm not sure if I should suck it up and just take the damn thing or if I should study more, get more confident, and take it in October. Anybody have some words of wisdom?

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Well, what is your target? If it's 174-175, you shouldn't count on reaching it. Less than that and it sounds like you have a good enough chance of getting it to warrant taking in June and reevaluating once scores come out.

VasaVasori wrote:Do you think you can improve? Are you willing to spend the next 4 months working hard for that improvement? If you're not scoring where you want to be and you answered affirmatively to the previous two questions, I would withdraw. If you answered no to either of the questions, I would take this offering of the exam.

Also, this ^^.

Gracias! At this point, since I know that at least a 172 or a 173 is doable (I was doing it before, just not in any of my more recent tests), I think I'm going to delay and get more confident in doing it reliably, which seems to be my issue. That, and not psyching myself out.

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I mean, if you're scoring in the 170s anyway, while it isn't likely you're going to hit 174+, it's far from impossible. I don't see what you lose by taking it Monday and if you don't hit your target, taking it again in October.

The problem is that I already have the 167, so the last thing I want is another low score (169 on today's PT) on my record.

Schools don't care about multiple scores. Take it in June. We will have fun in the June waiting thread.

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I say take now. You still have oct if you don't hit where you want. Trust me, it's a lot easier to say you're going to study till Oct, then it is to sit down and do it over the summer.