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...weeks ago, I took the LSAT. When you utter the word, you usually face a flood of unhappy lawyer stories. Or, you're bombarded with a stream of statistics about exactly how many lawyers exist in the world (many), as opposed to how many the world needs (Few, they say. Very...
...every unhappy lawyer story, it seemed, there were 16 college students cramming for the LSAT. On October 2, a couple thousand harried, bag-eyed twentysomethings filed into a highrise at Boston University to take a four-hour test...
These impressions of my room made me feel like a human being. The LSAT...
Luckily, item 9 offered an escape hatch. You can tell Law School Admissions Services, the Pennsylvania firm that administers the LSAT, to leave your ethnic description out of score reports. This meant, I thought, that I could help LSAS's statisticians get an accurate picture of the law school applicant pool without signing up for special consideration that I don't deserve. My negative answer to 14C, which asks, "Would you describe yourself as someone who comes from a low-income family?" should have eliminated me from such consideration altogether...
While Bates and Reed empathized with the student's desperation, several law students said they were surprised--shocked at the discovery, and amazed at the holes in the LSAT scoring system...