Hey, no problem.

Are you sure you want to begin prepping so early though? Prepping for the LSAT is a pretty demanding and arduous process which involves frequent practice on real LSATs. I'm afraid there arent enough preptests available to last you 13 months. You might want to start between the beginning and middle of 2009.

Just my two cents. Good luck.

Yeah, I'm going to take the prep slow now that I know I can't test next June.  Since I can't test until September '09, I won't get serious until maybe about 6 months before.  So, around March 2009.  Until then, I'll probably just familiarize myself with logic games setups and take it relatively easy. 

Sorry to sort of hijack this thread, but BLOND37, I was going to start a new one along similar lines, so I'll just post my question here because I'm sure the responses would be helpful to both of us (and many others).  I'll post a little more info about my case than you have with yours so people responding have a bit more context. 

Here goes: I want to get into as high a school as possible for Fall 2010.  My friend who went to a borderline T2/T3 school tells me to apply to mostly T2's, many T3s and just one or two T1s.  In his words, "aim high, but not too high".  Is he jealous?  Am I crazy?  The only T2 I'm serious about right now is Northeastern.  When I first started looking, I checked out Western New England College, a T4.  Some people, BLOND37, might consider that school to be somewhere "that pretty much will take anyone."  After I looked into the prices and the whole debt thing, I thought that'd be senseless for me and I gradually started aiming higher and higher into delusional territory where I'm not ruling out T14 as long as I can pull my LSAT around their 75% numbers.

BLOND37, I'll answer your question from my perspective.  I'm no authority; an LSD newbie, so you don't need to put much weight in it.  Plus, others have already covered it well here. Financial concerns drive my decision.  I've been working full-time for four+ years and I'm paying off college loans. Average starting salaries for schools that take just about anybody are just about what I make now.  And I don't make alot; I work in education. 40-50K? I won't give up three years of earning potential so I can get 200K in debt and make the same amount of money I make now.  So, I'm going to try to do the whole high T1 thing and be just another hopeful trying to rank high, get on law review and land something in biglaw so I can pay off the loans relatively quickly.  Of course, as time goes on, I may find that after a biglaw Summer Associateship, the lawfirm lifestyle just isn't for me and I want to go a different career route.  Or, I simply couldn't out-compete the competition for those jobs.  A better school would have better non-biglaw options and the name recognition would probably work better for the individual networking that I'd do to try to land a job.

Sorry, I reread your post.

As far as pacing is concerned. I think I was only able to get to about 65% of the questions on my diagnostic test before running out of time.

Your time will improve, no question.

Thanks, Thales.  Admittedly, "pacing trajectory" is a very awkward phrase of choice.  I think I'll do one or two more untimed tests then switch to timed for the most part. 

I was hoping that I could take the test in June 2009, but turns out I have to wait until Sept. 26, 2009.  I proctored the June 2008 LSAT and you can't take the exam for a year if you proctor it.  With my wishful thinking, I planned to take the June 2009 test and contacted LSAC to confirm that I could.  Nope.  Need to wait 'till September.  Sorry, a little unnecessary information.

Hi snickersnicker,

How did your LSAT pacing trajectory look in relation to your score increases?  I just took my first un-prepped practice exam over the weekend and scored a 154 and I'm studying to bring my score to the 170's by the June 2009 exam.  I was frightened by the pace I was testing at and how many problems I felt I was getting wrong.  At the five minutes left point on a couple of sections, I was only around question #16!  So, yeah, I took close to an hour per section, double the allotted time.  Logic games were a joke.  At the five minutes remaining point, I was on question 5.  I think that section took me three days to finish.  I know that as I become more familiar with the exam, my times will improve and hopefully my score will as well.  I just want to know if you were spending that long on your early PT's.   

Anyone else want to chime in? 

Lzero, what did you get on your first practice test?