A2Z S4 E02 LSAT Update

The LSAT is changing and in this episode Dean Z aims to answer all of your questions about the differences between the old test and the new.
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🕔 Time Chapters 🕔
00:45 Current change to LSAT
01:36 "Logic games" are going away
03:19 LSAC research
03:56 What is a "logic game?"
05:29 Will admissions view the new test differently?
08:39 LSAT Changes to writing prompt
11:50 3rd change: environmental context metric
14:02 Grammar!

[@albumlogy6217]

Wake up babe, new Dean Z video just dropped

[@TheDitty5]

Dean Z always coming through with super useful info. Thank you!!

[@user-rf3yu8su9e]

I am one of those people who struggled with logics games but not with the analytical reasoning section. I really struggled with timing and usually missed 6-8 LG questions, usually the entire last section. I am just generally slow with drawing diagrams and am bad at visualization in general. Maybe it was because I self studied and never got into the right habits for that section haha My official LSAT was 169, and I was rejected early from Michigan. When I practiced without logics games and regularly got 175+. I really wanted to be back in Ann Arbor, and maybe I should have waited another year to apply, but I'm really fortuntate to have been accepted to law school at all as a grad school drop out haha. Even though I won't get to be part of the Michigan law community, I'm really grateful for the advice Dean Z gives out. It's hard doing something like this on your own as a first gen applicant.

[@reginaldcharles1133]

Dean Z Dean Z ..yes I love the wonderful Dean Z

[@ItsJuju09]

Hi Dean Z! Can you make a video on transferring law schools? I would love to know the process, the pros and cons, and anything else an aspiring transfer needs to know. Thank you!

[@umichlaw]

Thanks for the suggestion! We're going to let you in on a little secret: this is exactly what Dean Z will be talking about in the next episode :)

[@lupitahaussmann]

Good question.

[@ameliakeadle4653]

Interesting because Oxford law admissions have been independently scoring the writing section of the LNAT and using the metric as 1/2 of the total LNAT weight for many years! Could make a major difference in law school admissions in the years to come.

[@danielcappell]

Imo, they coulda brought back the oddball sections that shuffled in and out of the lsat from 1948-1991. What -1l wouldnt want to take an LSAT that tested general knowledge about American agriculture , skill at connections-style "inductive reasoning" (where some of the questions involve recognizing actors' names), and the ability to quickly see Gottschaldts Edit: KZbin's not letting me make a new comment for some reason. You can find the fascinating old last sections by searching this: A Compendium of LSAT and LSAC-Sponsored Item Types, 1948 1994

[@bensonfang1868]

Just for historical research and “fun” purposes, is there somewhere I could find these question types online?

[@danielcappell]

@@bensonfang1868 Yes! google this: A Compendium of LSAT and LSAC-Sponsored Item Types, 1948 1994. LSAC Research Report Series

[@danielcappell]

@@bensonfang1868 Yes! Search for this: A Compendium of LSAT and LSAC-Sponsored Item Types, 1948 1994

[@user-bc1be3lz9p]

Dean Z can you please make a video on international J.D. application, for candidates who want to apply to international Law School like michigan law and want to practice like capital market and international arbitration.

[@danielcappell]

Scare quotes!!! Fun fact, the label "scare quotes" comes GEM Anscombe! (Philosophy major dab)

[@TheZFetter]

Hey Dean Z Most, if not all, of your videos discuss the admissions process. I'd love to have your insight on what it takes to actually succeed in law school once you become a student.

[@umichlaw]

Great question! I view that as a bit outside my expertise, but I’ll mull and see if I can come up with something. From the admissions perspective, we don’t care what your grades are once you enroll-that’s not how we define success. In a school with a curve, it’s baked in that half of the class is in the bottom half, and that doesn’t mean I picked half of the class wrong! Or that that half isn’t “succeeding” in a larger, more significant way than grades. -DZ

[@simplephotos6803]

So scared rn hope you guys accept me 😅