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Overwhelmingly male-dominated LSAT prep world?

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 9:50 am
by conticuere
A few observations:

Men listed as LSAT instructors:
81/146 55.5%—Testmasters (Robin Singh)
40/50 80.0%—Blueprint (Trent Teti, Matt Riley)
19/29 65.5%—Manhattan

AlphaScore—Greg Smith
Lawschooli—Evan Jones and Joshua Craven
7Sage—J.Y. Ping
LSAT Hacks—Graeme Blaeke
Fox LSAT—Nathan Fox
LSAT Trainer—Mike Kim
Powerscore Logical Reasoning/Logic Games Bible—David Killoran
Powerscore Reading Comprehension Bible—David Killoran and Steven Stein
Nova LSAT—Jeff Kolby
Barrons LSAT—Jay Cutts, John Mares
Velocity—Dave Hall

Re: Overwhelmingly male-dominated LSAT prep world?

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 11:01 am
by Barack O'Drama
conticuere wrote:A few observations:

Men listed as LSAT instructors:
81/146 55.5%—Testmasters (Robin Singh)
40/50 80.0%—Blueprint (Trent Teti, Matt Riley)
19/29 65.5%—Manhattan

AlphaScore—Greg Smith
Lawschooli—Evan Jones and Joshua Craven
7Sage—J.Y. Ping
LSAT Hacks—Graeme Blaeke
Fox LSAT—Nathan Fox
LSAT Trainer—Mike Kim
Powerscore Logical Reasoning/Logic Games Bible—David Killoran
Powerscore Reading Comprehension Bible—David Killoran and Steven Stein
Nova LSAT—Jeff Kolby
Barrons LSAT—Jay Cutts, John Mares
Velocity—Dave Hall
I guess the data does lie. Interesting...

Re: Overwhelmingly male-dominated LSAT prep world?

Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2016 3:03 pm
by appind
conticuere wrote:A few observations:

Men listed as LSAT instructors:
81/146 55.5%—Testmasters (Robin Singh)
40/50 80.0%—Blueprint (Trent Teti, Matt Riley)
19/29 65.5%—Manhattan

AlphaScore—Greg Smith
Lawschooli—Evan Jones and Joshua Craven
7Sage—J.Y. Ping
LSAT Hacks—Graeme Blaeke
Fox LSAT—Nathan Fox
LSAT Trainer—Mike Kim
Powerscore Logical Reasoning/Logic Games Bible—David Killoran
Powerscore Reading Comprehension Bible—David Killoran and Steven Stein
Nova LSAT—Jeff Kolby
Barrons LSAT—Jay Cutts, John Mares
Velocity—Dave Hall
being an lsat instructor requires a bit of an entrepreneurial approach for a large number of people. that may help explain it to a certain extent.

Re: Overwhelmingly male-dominated LSAT prep world?

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 8:51 am
by bmathers
My lsat prep instructor was a female... but, honestly why in the world does this even matter??

Re: Overwhelmingly male-dominated LSAT prep world?

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 10:12 am
by ptittle
Interesting stats. I wonder if it's related to the fact that Philosophy is so male-dominated (I recall being the ONLY woman in my Philosophy program). Though that assumes that most LSAT tutors have a Philosophy background. That would be something else interesting to know...

On the other hand, when I worked at LSAC, although most of the item-writers were men, I don't think that's the case now.

Re: Overwhelmingly male-dominated LSAT prep world?

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2016 7:16 pm
by conticuere
bmathers wrote:My lsat prep instructor was a female... but, honestly why in the world does this even matter??
Well, I think gender disparities are always worth consideration. I don't claim "injustice" here, per se, but it's worth noting for general interest and open to speculation as to why. The frequency of philosophy backgrounds and the gender disparity there could be a factor, as one person suggested.