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Tag Archives: law school
6 Things You Can Do Now if Applying to Law School Next Year
Really? You’re already prepping for your law school applications for the 2013 school year? You realize some of your law school brethren are still getting out applications for 2012, right?
There’s a name for someone like you: Gunner. But you don’t care, because those people are just jealous, right?
Kidding aside, starting your law school application process this early is a great decision. While you won’t have a looming deadline to get you to finish that Personal Statement (which is something that motivates me like no other), you will have plenty of time to finish everything you need.
What are those things? What can you start now?
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Feb 21, 2012 - 11:56 am - By Matt Shinners
Tags: applying to law school, june lsat, law school, law school admissions, lsac, LSAT, personal statement
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Spend the Holiday with Some Presidential LSAT Flaws
It’s Presidents’ Day, which means a day off for the lucky ones among us. Since our business here at Blueprint is the LSAT, it’s also the perfect time to look at some President-related logical fallacies. The official federal holiday is in honor of George Washington’s birthday, but we’ll take a broader look.
Equivocation: Bill Clinton, our 42nd President, famously said, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman.” Now that we know many of the details of his affair with one Monica Lewinsky, it would be easy to call this statement a fantastic lie. We could also say that President Clinton was simply doing what an LSAT flaw question answer choice might call equivocating with respect to a key term.
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Feb 20, 2012 - 5:11 pm - By Aaron Cohn
Tags: law school, logical fallacies, LSAT, lsat flaws, lsat in real life
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Logical Reasonings / 2.17.12
A) Yesterday we gave away the first $50 in our Facebook sweepstakes. Lucky for you, there’s still two more chances to win. (And three ways to enter.) Facebook. B) Here’s some law school job placement data. Happy Friday. Reuters. C) … Read Entire Article…
Must be the Season of the Waitlist
It’s still winter, and that means plenty of people have already been admitted to law school. (Jerks). For those of us not touched by angels, this also means that declinations abound. (Please pass the tub of chicken). Then there’s that special third group of people in their own little circle of hell. The waitlisters.
This post, all of you waitlisted and in law school limbo, is for you.
What to do when you’re waitlisted for law school:
1. Read the instructions you’re given.
Some schools explicitly invite waitlisted applicants to send additional materials. If this is the case, you’ll want to submit a letter of continued interest, along with any updates you have.
Some schools may expressly ask you NOT to send additional information.
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Feb 17, 2012 - 10:30 am - By Jodi Triplett
Tags: law school, law school admissions, letters of recommendation, LSAT, LSAT prep
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Tags: law school, law school admissions, letters of recommendation, LSAT, LSAT prep
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LSAC and the ADA: A Harvard Law Grad Looks at the Facts
One of the most controversial issues surrounding the LSAT is special accommodations given to disabled test takers. Head to any law school-related message board and ask a question about how to apply for accommodations during an LSAT, and you’re guaranteed to start a flame war.
For quite some time, it’s been nearly impossible to get accommodated LSAT testing. Even students with a long history of accommodations (through other schooling and standardized testing) have been denied it by the LSAC. It was almost necessary to take them to court to have any chance of getting accommodations, claiming the policy violates the ADA.
So does the LSAC’s policy violate the ADA?
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Feb 15, 2012 - 6:31 pm - By Matt Shinners
Tags: law school, lsac, LSAT, lsat accommodated testing, lsat testing, news and analysis
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Logical Reasonings / 2.14.12
A) Are you down to win $50? Head over to our Facebook sweepstakes page and sign up for free. You can also follow us on Twitter and +1 us on Google+ for additional entries. Check it out. Facebook. B) It’s … Read Entire Article…
Logical Reasonings / 2.13.12
A) If you haven’t heard about our sweepstakes, here’s the scoop: For a chance to win an easy $50, head over to Facebook and sign up. You can also follow us on Twitter and +1 us on Google+ for additional … Read Entire Article…
Logical Reasonings / 2.9.12
A) Los Angeles decided to increase fines for playing with Frisbees and footballs on the beach. Also, no running, no sandcastles, definitely no swimming, and absolutely positively no smiling under any circumstances. CBS Los Angeles. B) Obama frees 10 states … Read Entire Article…
Flawed Logic: A Response to the New York Times’ David Segal
New York Times reporter David Segal has made somewhat of a splash over the past year talking about the state of legal education and how, to bluntly paraphrase, it sucks. You can check out what he has to say here and watch a short interview with him here.
If you don’t want to watch the video or wade through a 5-page New York Times article (though if you can’t make it through that, law school might be a rude awakening), the long and short of it is that he believes law schools, the ABA, and the US News and World Report rankings have created something of a self-interested scam with perverse incentives.
The ABA is both the professional organization representing lawyers, as well as the group that oversees accreditation of new schools (while technically the accreditation arm is an independent organization, many don’t believe in the separation).
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Feb 7, 2012 - 7:01 pm - By Matt Shinners
Tags: law school, law school tuition, lawyers, Legal Jobs, LSAT, LSAT prep, news and analysis, us news & world report
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Logical Reasonings / 2.7.12
A) Proposition 8 gets one step closer to the Supreme Court. Associated Press. B) The aftermath from the American Bar Association’s tisk-tisk in the direction of LSAC continues today. National Law Journal. C) Even the fine folks of the Midwest … Read Entire Article…