Nathan and Ben react to WashU offering a new institutional loan to help students cover tuition beyond federal loan limits. They argue that chasing a prestigious name isn't worth it if you have to borrow heavily to get there.

Also in this episode:

- Ben and Nathan roast a poorly written Wall Street Journal headline

- Whether highlighting and note-taking actually helps on the LSAT

- An engineering grad considers switching to law

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0:00 Wall Street Journal Headline 

3:29 Extremely Confused

14:34 Loan from WashU

25:27 Highlighting on the LSAT

27:20 Test D Question — Nonprofit Leaders

38:05 Career Change as an Engineer

50:07 A Few More Points on Your GPA

57:26 January Score Hold

1:09:51 Word of the week — suzerain