Today was a lot of fun – my Blog Talk Radio Show ”LSAT TRENDS AND TRUISMS” featured three great guys:
Noah from Atlas, Brad from Knewton, and Michael from EduPath.
Our 45 minute discussion was lively and, I admit, a little unpredictable. We discussed some unexpected benefits of online LSAT courses, how to use LSAT related video-style games and iPad apps to supplement your LSAT preparation, and the various price points for each. There is something for everyone! We also talked about what you can do in the next 7 weeks to best prepare yourself for the October LSAT and maximize your chances of reaching a goal score. The conclusion of the show (about how much it’s really possible to improve your LSAT score in 7 weeks) may surprise you!
I look forward to your feedback, and I thank the guys for their enthusiastic participation. If you have any questions about the content, post it in a comment here and I’ll ask the guys to provide responses.
Also, you may have seen this week’s US News Get In: Law School column about law school resumes. If the last
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Earlier this week the California Department of Education awarded (though only temporarily) $315 million in School Improvement Grants to over 100 schools in 31 districts. These grants are designed to reform persistently low-achieving schools, so this is great news, right? Over 100 low-performing schools have a better chance to improve.
The problem is that California identified 188 persistently low-achieving schools back in March, which means that not all the schools that need this money got it.
Now, this was a competitive grant program. Districts containing schools identified as persistently low-achieving applied for the funds to reform them, knowing that the state would decide whom to fund. So we knew going in there would be winners and losers.
The kicker is how they chose the winners:
[S]tate officials gave priority to those [districts] that requested grants to help turn around all campuses on the list.
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MITACS would like to let you know about EIGHT interactive, hands-on, workshops we are offering students at the graduate level and postdoctoral fellows. Registration is open to all graduate students and post-doctoral fellows, including past, present, and prospective MITACS Accelerate Interns.
Space fills fast, please register ASAP!
Please note: you must enter valid credit card information to complete your registration. This information will be captured only, and if you do not cancel within the designated cancellation period, OR you do not attend the workshop, you will be charged the $50.00 deposit fee. You have 7 calendar days prior to the workshop to cancel without being penalized.
What: The Art of Powerful Conversation When: August 10th, 2010 Where: University of Toronto, 89 chestnut Street.
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The American Bar Association recently published a very detailed “Report of the Special Committee on the U.S. News and World Report Rankings” organized by the ABA’s Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar to “examine rankings of law schools.”
Among the key conclusions of the ABA’s report:
“The U.S. News and World Report’s annual ranking of law schools overwhelmingly dominates the public discourse on how law schools compare to one another. As a result, U.S. News rankings have assumed ever increasing importance to any law school that wishes to attract students and faculty and to retain support from alumni and university leaders. The criteria U.S. News uses for rankings now has a powerful influence over the management and design of American legal education.”
“Despite these frequent calls across the spectrum of legal education, the public has continued to rely heavily upon U.S. News rankings in comparing—and making decisions about—American law schools. The result has been to change decision-making within American legal education. The
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My next Blog Talk Radio Show is scheduled for Wednesday, August 11th at 4:30 pm ET/1:30 pm PST. I’ve invited movers and shakers in the LSAT prep industry to talk about new ways of studying for the LSAT (Atari-style video games, iPad Apps, online courses, and more!), what works, and what doesn’t. For those of you who haven’t heard my podcasts on iTunes (Blog Talk Radio-Ann Levine), they are extremely popular – you can hear them on my website too. This one will be 45 minutes long. You can listen live and ask me questions for our panelists via the chat room, or you can call in to the show if you’re listening by phone. If you can’t make the show live, it’ll live forever online – never miss a Law School Expert podcast by subscribing to the iTunes channel.
In other news, here is the link to the law school application timeline I created for my “Get In: Law School” column on USNews.com. Let me know what you think!
