Continuing their admissions season coverage, Branden & Jelena demystify the process of applying to law school and walk you through all the components of a successful application.

If you’re just starting the applications process or wondering what it takes to apply to law school, this episode is for you. And if you’re staring at a nearly-complete application and just can’t crack that personal statement, this episode is also for you.

Listen to learn…

Links and further resources from from this week’s episode:

Credential Assembly Service FAQ from LSAC: https://www.lsac.org/applying-law-school/jd-application-process/credential-assembly-service-cas

Track All Your Applications in One Place (Careful! Habit-forming!)

Browse Law School Medians (LSAT/GPA): http://lawschoolnumbers.com/

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Law school applications are up. Like, WAY up. Like, this could be the most competitive law school admissions season of all time up.

Jelena & Branden talk about what the September application storm means for this year’s prospective lawyers. Plus, answers to more of your LSAT-Flex questions, now that we’ve seen this new at-home LSAT in action for a few administrations.

In this information-packed episode, find out:

1. Why this could be the hardest year in history to get into law school

Links and further resources from from this week’s episode:

YTD Applications to ABA Law Schools: https://report.lsac.org/VolumeSummary.aspx?Format=PDF

Admissions Consultant Warns of Hyper-Competitive Admissions Season: https://bit.ly/2SrSCiA

Ongoing LSAT-Flex Updates from LSAC: https://www.lsac.org/update-coronavirus-and-lsat/lsat-flex

California Ballot Tracking: https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-status/wheres-my-ballot

Work the Polls:https://www.powerthepolls.org/

State by State Election Protection & Voting Resources: https://866ourvote.org/

Voter Protection Phone Banking: https://www.mobilize.us/nc2020victory/event/314753/

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LSAT questions may seem like random, stream-of-consciousness, mostly nonsensical musings, but there is structure to the madness. If you can pick out the structure from among a sea of double negatives and dependent clauses, you’ll be laughing all the way to a full ride at your dream law school. This week, Branden and Jelena will show you how.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

1. How to identify the pieces of the argument in several different ways, including indicator key words, statement type, and statement order

Links and further resources from from this week’s episode:

Common Argument Forms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_valid_argument_forms

How to Argue, A Crash Course in Philosophy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKEhdsnKKHs

Struggling with Logical Reasoning? Watch This!: https://youtu.be/ODLWvAjCViY

Common LSAT Flaws Webinar with Branden: https://youtu.be/LvJX_rmcuQY

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A podcast could never even begin to do justice to all the justice done by Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her 87 years of life. But perhaps it can help send a few more good humans to law school. In this listener mailbag episode, Branden & Jelena answer questions from the Legal Level audience—now dubbed by Branden “Levelheads.”

In this episode, questions from listeners Robert, Rachel, Kendall, and Madison. You’ll learn:

1. How much a low GPA will hold you back in law school admissions

Baruch dayan emet. Tzedek, tzedek, tirdof.

Links and further resources from from this week’s episode:

‘We have lost a giant’: Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020): https://today.law.harvard.edu/in-memoriam-ruth-bader-ginsburg/

83-Year-Old RBG Reads Her Husband’s Final Love Letter Aloud in 2016 WBUR Interview: https://wbur.fm/3comztc

Free Scholarly Journal Articles: https://app.dimensions.ai/discover/publication?and_facet_open_access=True

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Many LSAT study materials focus on the content of the exam, but fail to mention the other half of the equation: the human being doing the learning. If anxiety, distraction, or self-doubt are preventing you from retaining information, how are you supposed to ace the LSAT? In today’s episode, Jelena & Branden pose your questions—and a few questions of their own—to UCLA-certified Mindfulness Facilitator Heather Prete.

Listen and discover:

1. How to get the benefits of meditation, even if you can’t sit still

Links and further resources from from this week’s episode:

Heather’s Free Guided Meditations for Beginner & Intermediate Meditators: http://heatherpretemindfulness.com/meditations/

UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center: https://www.uclahealth.org/marc/

MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) Body Scan Technique: https://mbsrtraining.com/mindfulness-exercises/mbsr-body-scan/

Headspace: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/headspace-meditation-sleep/id493145008

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It’s September, the beginning of the law school admissions season. Branden & Jelena kick off this anxiety-filled time of year by inviting two current law students to share their application stories and advice to applicants. A UCLA 2L and Georgetown 1L, respectively, our guests had completely different admissions season experiences, and you can learn from both.

Listen to find out . . .

1. What it’s like to spend months on Georgetown’s waitlist & start law school elsewhere before finally getting the acceptance call

Links and further resources from from this week’s episode:

Follow Olivia (and she doesn’t mind if you ask her law school questions): instagram.com/ogpepper

Law School Admissions Consulting: https://testmaxprep.com/lsat/admissions-consulting

Selecting Law Schools Webinar with Jelena: https://youtu.be/K4I0VT5Gros

Financing Law School Webinar with Branden: https://youtu.be/f5gYj6ddj7U

Law School Applications Webinar with Jelena: https://youtu.be/4YoNYl-2JvM

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In November of 2018, the LSAT confused a generation of future lawyers with a Reading Comprehension passage that seems to say there are definitely multiple universes out there. Not only was this an infamously tough passage to score well on, it shook students’ sense of reality to the core. Today, with Branden taking some time off to prep his students for the August LSAT-Flex, Jelena fact checks the PT 86 “high-entropy multiverse” passage.

Put your science hats on and learn…

1. Whether or not the research cited in this LSAT passage is real

Links and further resources from from this week’s episode:

2004 Coverage of Carroll and Chen’s initial paper & hypotheses: https://bit.ly/3jB2TVl

Carroll & Chen’s original paper that inspired PT 86 Passage 4: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0410270

NASA’s recent, surprising universe-expansion speed news:

Researcher Sean M. Carroll discusses his entropy & “arrow of time” theories on Twitter: https://bit.ly/3jy4pHy

“Arrows of Time Without a Past Hypothesis,” a 2020 paper building on Carroll and Chen’s work: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/17468/

Christopher Gregory Weaver roasts the Carroll-Chen Model: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1309.4976.pdf

Sean Carroll interviewed by Wired about his new book: https://bit.ly/2YSgKyG

Is there a mirror universe where time moves backwards? (Carroll thinks so): https://bit.ly/2YVaENY

Quantum Mechanics creeped out Albert Einstein: https://bbc.in/3gMgMOr

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We’re back with Part 2 of our joint podcast with Admissions Straight Talk, and this time Linda Abraham (founder of Accepted.com) and Christine Carr (former Associate Director of Admissions at Boston University’s School of Law) are answering Branden & Jelena’s questions. We dive into everything you need to know about this unprecedented law school admissions season.

In this episode, find out:

1. Whether law school applications are expected to rise or fall this season

Links and further resources from from this week’s episode:

Listen to Admissions Straight Talk: blog.accepted.com/listen

About Christine Carr (former BU Law Associate Director of Admissions: https://www.accepted.com/aboutus/christine-carr

Law School Applications Webinar: https://youtu.be/4YoNYl-2JvM

Selecting Law Schools Webinar: https://youtu.be/K4I0VT5Gros

Financing Law School Webinar: https://youtu.be/f5gYj6ddj7U

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Law school admissions season is right around the corner, so we got together with our friends at the Admissions Straight Talk podcast for a two-part collaboration! In Part 1, Branden and Jelena answer potential law school applicants’ frequently asked questions about the LSAT.

Listen to learn:

1. Why the GRE is no substitute for a great LSAT score

Links and further resources from from this week’s episode:

Listen to Admissions Straight Talk: blog.accepted.com/listen

About Christine Carr (former BU Law Associate Director of Admissions: https://www.accepted.com/aboutus/christine-carr

Apply Online Now for the Justice in Action Program:

TestMax Announces Justice in Action Program to Support 1,000 Future Lawyers: https://testmaxprep.com/blog/justice-in-action

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Most LSAT students struggle with time management. Whether you’re running out of time and failing to answer some of the questions, or rushing to finish the section and choosing too many incorrect answers, you’re probably not approaching section timing correctly. That’s okay, ‘cause it’s totally learnable! In this episode, Branden (175) & Jelena (178) share the LSAT speed and timing strategies that they used to master the LSAT’s brutal time limits.

Listen to learn:

1. When to do Reading Comprehension passages out of order (and why)

Links and further resources from from this week’s episode:

Oops, LSAC Lost Some Scores: https://reut.rs/3alKbxy

NCBE Threatens Bar Exam Critics: https://bit.ly/31A9Sq2

Bar Exam Tracker on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BarExamTracker

California October 2020 Bar Exam FAQ: https://bit.ly/2Cga9Wu

Apply Online Now for the Justice in Action Program:

TestMax Announces Justice in Action Program to Support 1,000 Future Lawyers: https://testmaxprep.com/blog/justice-in-action

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