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Hey I want to eventually take the LSAT here in the coming months and am wondering if any of you have taken it. If so, any tips??


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A friend of mine took the LSAT's and he seemed to have a lot of fun studying for them. Supposedly it's all based around logic puzzles and thinking rather than hard facts to be crammed. He would always be playing around in his LSAT study guides for fun and would share questions that he found particularly entertaining or troublesome.
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Steel was prepping for them and used to talk about some of the word problems :(

from what i've heard, you should probably get an LSAT prep book (from Kaplan or one of those other good publishers) and just keep practicing!
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What is the LSAT? Is it the test to get into law school or whatever? Or is it the US's LPC equivalent?
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BUT WHICH!? Yes isn't a valid answer to a multiple choice question!
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BUT WHICH!? Yes isn't a valid answer to a multiple choice question!

gosh faust think outside the box, you'll never pass the LSAT that way...
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law school isn't really the best idea ATM
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I don't know much about it but I know there's TONS and TONS of threads on SA about why law school is a pretty bad idea.
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i'm intrigued: why's it such a bad idea?
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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3301274&pagenumber=1

This is the thread most people link to about it on SA, I read it a while back because what the heck why do I have that kind of time in my life what is wrong with me
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Yeah, I would suggest like already having a position lined up before doing like FINAL SOLICITOR EXAMS or whatever the LSAT is. I was doing a Law Degree (TWO YEARS I GOTS A DIPLOMAS INSTEAD ;_; ) before I totally dropped it and opted for the much more FUN Literature route, but I had a job sorted out before I even began my degree. In these MODERN TIMES, like nothing except for MEDICINE is a totally stable and guaranteed better life for yourself.

That said, I'd sooner put all my eggs in the 'Law' basket than I would like pretty much any other profession.
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I read it a while back because what the heck why do I have that kind of time in my life what is wrong with me
lol i have this line of thought come into my mind at least once daily
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i'm intrigued: why's it such a bad idea?
It's a lot of really hard work and a horrible job market to come into. Same goes for MBAs but those aren't as difficult and life subsuming as a law degree.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704866204575224350917718446.html this was last year and from all I've heard, it's just getting worse.
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some people get law degrees with the specific intention of never going into law. i know of one guy who started a game development company using functional programming as soon as he got out, and know of someone else who intends to be a magazine editor when he finishes. might be a waste of time, idk. i am feeling very jaded about the university system in general at the moment.
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some people get law degrees with the specific intention of never going into law. i know of one guy who started a game development company using functional programming as soon as he got out, and know of someone else who intends to be a magazine editor when he finishes. might be a waste of time, idk. i am feeling very jaded about the university system in general at the moment.

Unless you are getting a free ride to law school why in the world would you spend this kind of money for this?
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This explains  it all you have to read no further then this post
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Unless you are getting a free ride to law school why in the world would you spend this kind of money for this?
The short answer is social capital, I think. Granted, it's probably easier to justify in countries where the government provides interest free student loans and tuition fees are lower than the US. Isn't something I'd do personally, but it seems to have gone okay for those that have done it.
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Yeah, when I was at uni the cost was 1k per year, regardless of the course, plus student loans here are that whole "you will never pay this back, it is a small tax on future income" so it wasn't too bad. I mean, taking a 10k loan to enter a career where you're paid like £120 an hour doesn't sound too bad, but that's if you're both in the UK and connected to a firm initially. I mean, especially as I paid like £6k for my postgraduate shit and am now only earning £25 an hour (only used in the sense of comparative to lawyers and shit).

If you're in the US and paying like 50k fees (I have no idea it is a big guess) and where apparently lawyers earn less, it'd probably take some SERIOUS THOUGHT before jumping in on it.


BUT like if the choice is between getting a Law degree and like NOT getting a degree at all, or going to uni vs going straight into bottom rung service industry or retail type work, then definitely the degree is the way to go. Even if only for the fact that it buys you at least three years of lessened responsibilities and "growing up" and shit. I wouldn't trade those years I spent at uni for like anything man.
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I see all your points, but isn't it just badass to be a lawyer tho?