Word: lsat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rough month ahead for those of us at Dartboard. Some of us will be up early tomorrow morning, doing our damnedest to prove we are skilled in analytic and logical reasoning on the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT). Others will find themselves with hours of circle-filling-fun later this month at the GRE's. But the one thing we all have in common is that none of us will be taking these tests at Harvard. That's right, well before eight o'clock in the morning we'll be heading off to other local colleges-UMass Boston, Northeastern...
...students and practicing lawyers may submit their LSAT scores in lieu of the GREs...
According to the Harvard Law Record, a second-year law student was expelled in 1992 for reporting false LSAT scores...
...myself cancelled my LSAT because I was sick the day I took the test, but I can't help wondering if I would have suffered the same doubts as my friend had I received a bad score. It's entirely conceivable; those feelings aren't unknown to me. In fact, I would be surprised if more than a small minority of Harvard students were entirely comfortable in their intellectual skin. I like to call it the "I'm the mistake" syndrome--that anxious, ephemeral pang we all entertain for a moment and then dismiss, only to feel guilty that...
What I am certain of, however, is that if our positions had been reversed, had my friend tried to cheer me up using the same arguments I had, the words would have struck me as too hollow to be of real comfort. I told him that low LSAT scores didn't mean he wasn't intelligent, didn't mean he couldn't be a success in whatever field he chose. Intellectually, I fundamentally believe these thoughts. But it was almost painful for me to say them because there's a less rational part of me that finds them utterly useless...