The Official October Waiter's Oasis Forum

mist4bison · Post by **mist4bison** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:19 pm

Willing to swap DS/PS topics/drafts with anyone, fyi. Now or later.

gamerish · Post by **gamerish** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:20 pm

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flash21 · Post by **flash21** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:24 pm

gamerish wrote:I know what I want to write about in my PS. I just have to take the time to put it down on paper and edit it relentlessly. What I'm mostly struggling with writing-wise is whether to write an addenda or use the reasoning/topic in my addenda and turn it into a DS.

Are you guys going to use one of those "professional" editors you can get online? My grammar is generally pretty good when I put effort into it but I feel like the importance of this might necessitate some more precise oversight.

Honestly I've looked at editor prices once when I was applying for a job at one of these organizations and its a massive rip off from what I saw. Can cost hundreds of dollars (although it is based on the number of pages / words). What I did personally was write my statement and then give myself some time from it and came back to edit it more, Furthermore, my profs looked at it.

alpha kenny body · Post by **alpha kenny body** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:26 pm

-12 would be the dopest dope

mist4bison · Post by **mist4bison** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:27 pm

gamerish wrote:I know what I want to write about in my PS. I just have to take the time to put it down on paper and edit it relentlessly. What I'm mostly struggling with writing-wise is whether to write an addenda or use the reasoning/topic in my addenda and turn it into a DS.

Are you guys going to use one of those "professional" editors you can get online? My grammar is generally pretty good when I put effort into it but I feel like the importance of this might necessitate some more precise oversight.

The SO's mom was a magazine editor for years and then a prof, so I'll probably ask her to look at it. That, or my crazy old supervisor who would edit the grammar in my emails and return them to me with corrections.

McJimJam · Post by **McJimJam** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:27 pm

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sanibella · Post by **sanibella** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:30 pm

Written five drafts of mine so far. All the same topic but I'm still trying to figure out how to structure it/which aspects to focus in on.

cub1014 · Post by **cub1014** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:30 pm

McJimJam wrote:
gamerish wrote:I know what I want to write about in my PS. I just have to take the time to put it down on paper and edit it relentlessly. What I'm mostly struggling with writing-wise is whether to write an addenda or use the reasoning/topic in my addenda and turn it into a DS.

Are you guys going to use one of those "professional" editors you can get online? My grammar is generally pretty good when I put effort into it but I feel like the importance of this might necessitate some more precise oversight.
I honestly don't think a PS makes enough of an impact on admissions to justify the paying for an editor, plus if I actually take the time to do multiple drafts I usually catch most of my errors.

If you plan on Berkeley then it would probably make a significant impact. I'm not sure which other schools look at it as closely though.

chicharon · Post by **chicharon** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:32 pm

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ffamran · Post by **ffamran** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:34 pm

Test 75 was the worst. I hated it. >:-( And it was only -10??

seashell.economy · Post by **seashell.economy** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:38 pm

ffamran wrote:Test 75 was the worst. I hated it. >:-( And it was only -10??

74 was worse!

mist4bison · Post by **mist4bison** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:39 pm

chicharon wrote:DS

I really didn't mean to generalize with what I said earlier...

I do realize there are exceptions. You seem like a good example.

mist4bison · Post by **mist4bison** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:41 pm

cub1014 wrote:
McJimJam wrote:
gamerish wrote:I know what I want to write about in my PS. I just have to take the time to put it down on paper and edit it relentlessly. What I'm mostly struggling with writing-wise is whether to write an addenda or use the reasoning/topic in my addenda and turn it into a DS.

Are you guys going to use one of those "professional" editors you can get online? My grammar is generally pretty good when I put effort into it but I feel like the importance of this might necessitate some more precise oversight.
I honestly don't think a PS makes enough of an impact on admissions to justify the paying for an editor, plus if I actually take the time to do multiple drafts I usually catch most of my errors.
If you plan on Berkeley then it would probably make a significant impact. I'm not sure which other schools look at it as closely though.

Does berkeley really look at apps holistically? Everyone says they do, and yet people get dinged because of GPA constantly. If it were a holistic process, I feel like there would be a few more low GPAs accepted, you know? Berkeley is my top pick, but I'm worried bc of my 3.5

DONT QUOTE, THANKS!

ffamran · Post by **ffamran** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:45 pm

seashell.economy wrote:
ffamran wrote:Test 75 was the worst. I hated it. >:-( And it was only -10??
74 was worse!

I did okay on 74... but I took 75 the week before the LSAT, and it was very discouraging because I got the lowest score I've ever gotten, 3 points lower than my diagnostic...

SirArthurDayne · Post by **SirArthurDayne** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:47 pm

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EnderWiggin · Post by **EnderWiggin** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:50 pm

ffamran wrote:Test 75 was the worst. I hated it. >:-( And it was only -10??

Took 75 as a real thing in June. In hindsight, I think it was just so straightforward that there was just little room for error.

Danimals18 · Post by **Danimals18** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:52 pm

guys if we're gonna talk about the curve, it should be about how it's going to be -16, and not, say, -8.

That way I can at least be delusional and happy for the next two weeks

nlee10 · Post by **nlee10** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:53 pm

For anyone who took June and October:

in June I bombed that last game and tanked my confidence whereas I'm pretty sure I aced this LG. Thus I feel a lot more confident overall coming out of this one. Anyone concur?

ugg · Post by **ugg** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:54 pm

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EnderWiggin · Post by **EnderWiggin** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:56 pm

nlee10 wrote:For anyone who took June and October:

in June I bombed that last game and tanked my confidence whereas I'm pretty sure I aced this LG. Thus I feel a lot more confidence overall coming out of this one. Anyone concur?

Kind of opposite here. I scored -0 on LG in June but know that I missed at least 1 on this one. I bombed RC and did worse than my average on LR in June, whereas I felt somewhat better both LR and RC for October.

alpha kenny body · Post by **alpha kenny body** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:56 pm

nlee10 wrote:For anyone who took June and October:

in June I bombed that last game and tanked my confidence whereas I'm pretty sure I aced this LG. Thus I feel a lot more confident overall coming out of this one. Anyone concur?

I think that could extend to any retaker that feels they did better on sections that they suffered on previously. I know that I am in that camp, wrt, to LG and LR. RC is meh idk.

EnderWiggin · Post by **EnderWiggin** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 12:59 pm

EnderWiggin wrote:
nlee10 wrote:For anyone who took June and October:

in June I bombed that last game and tanked my confidence whereas I'm pretty sure I aced this LG. Thus I feel a lot more confidence overall coming out of this one. Anyone concur?
Kind of opposite here. I scored -0 on LG in June but know that I missed at least 1 on this one. I bombed RC and did worse than my average on LR in June, whereas I felt somewhat better both LR and RC for October.

Missed what you were trying to say there. Concur, yes. Though the whole "RC is better now" idea might be kind of undermined by misreading a simple message board post

tedofsandimas · Post by **tedofsandimas** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 1:00 pm

nlee10 wrote:For anyone who took June and October:

in June I bombed that last game and tanked my confidence whereas I'm pretty sure I aced this LG. Thus I feel a lot more confident overall coming out of this one. Anyone concur?

I agree with this, but I was better prepared for LG this time around so that's probably why I felt better about it afterward.

chicharon · Post by **chicharon** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 1:01 pm

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nlee10 · Post by **nlee10** » Thu Oct 08, 2015 1:03 pm

EnderWiggin wrote:
EnderWiggin wrote:
nlee10 wrote:For anyone who took June and October:

in June I bombed that last game and tanked my confidence whereas I'm pretty sure I aced this LG. Thus I feel a lot more confidence overall coming out of this one. Anyone concur?
Kind of opposite here. I scored -0 on LG in June but know that I missed at least 1 on this one. I bombed RC and did worse than my average on LR in June, whereas I felt somewhat better both LR and RC for October.
Missed what you were trying to say there. Concur, yes. Though the whole "RC is better now" idea might be kind of undermined by misreading a simple message board post