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...committee decided to add the question as "a matter of curiosity," she said. "We'd speculated and wondered about how many people take cram courses for quite a while, and we just wanted to know...

Author: By Mary E. Sarotte, | Title: LSAT Preparation Scrutinized | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

Although the Law School admissions office has not performed a statistical analysis of the responses, the results seem to indicate a complete lack of trends, Geraghty said. There was no correlation between the quantity of people taking a cram course and "sex, age, race, geographical groups, even who requested and who didn't request financial aid," she said...

Author: By Mary E. Sarotte, | Title: LSAT Preparation Scrutinized | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

Geraghty disagreed that the course affects LSAT scores. "There's no evidence whatsoever that a cram course does any good," said Geraghty. "It's simply a very expensive confidence booster...

Author: By Mary E. Sarotte, | Title: LSAT Preparation Scrutinized | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...These people prey on the anxiety of law school applicants," Badger said of cram course educators...

Author: By Mary E. Sarotte, | Title: LSAT Preparation Scrutinized | 4/14/1986 | See Source »

...know what you're saying. "Of what possible value could I be to the government? All I can do is cram for tests, guzzle beer and play squash...

Author: By Brian W. Kladko, | Title: Mom's Demands and the Government's | 10/24/1985 | See Source »

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