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General Off-Topic Board / Re: Choosing the most benefical MINOR for law school.« on: May 04, 2009, 03:43:28 PM »52
General Off-Topic Board / Re: Choosing the most benefical MINOR for law school.« on: May 04, 2009, 03:33:20 PM »I will be finishing up my last two years of undergrad work next fall. Now the time to choose a major and minor have come up. I will be majoring is psychology but I am wondering what minor I should choose. http://www.ivc.edu/econ/pages/lsatscores.aspx 53
General Off-Topic Board / Re: Why Does Torture Bother So Many People?« on: May 04, 2009, 03:28:55 PM »I'm not flaming. I don't see the issue with detention and torture, so long as it's done in rational state interest, and I don't see why it wouldn't be. I realize that these aren't the greatest ways to extract information, but I assume that state actors are smart, and they know better than me when it's necessary to detain someone without habeas corpus. "Rational State interest" is a murky phrase, at best. In the case of the United States, any short-term state interest is out-weighed, imao, by the fact that we cease to be a state defined by laws and commitment to the rule of law when we engage in torture and extra-legal detention. The effectiveness of torture isn't even really an issue in my view. Even at 100% effectiveness, torture contradicts our own laws and the principles that they strive to embody, and we cease to be the U.S. when we engage in it. 54
General Off-Topic Board / Re: Choosing the most benefical MINOR for law school.« on: May 04, 2009, 03:16:47 PM »I will be finishing up my last two years of undergrad work next fall. Now the time to choose a major and minor have come up. I will be majoring is psychology but I am wondering what minor I should choose. Crim Jus. won't do much good, to be honest. I don't know where I saw the stats, but there was a breakdown somewhere on average LSAT scores by major, the top three were Economics, Philosophy and Physics (poli sci and cj were actually low on the breakdown). I was a philosophy major, and the training in reasoning/critical thinking/counting angels on the head of a pin was of huge benefit on the LSAT. 55
Studying for the LSAT / Re: What about the writing portion?« on: May 04, 2009, 03:10:33 PM »I have a couple questions about the writing portion of the LSAT. I realize it is "unscored", which from what I can tell means it doesn't factor into your numerical score, but it gets evaluated in some way, right? Maybe not, I just don't know. Do adcomms have access to it, or LSAC's evaluation thereof? All the prep material I read basically said don't worry about it, but since I've been out of school so long, I'm thinking I really need to retrain myself in writing an essay. Admissions departments do have access to the LSAT essay. I have yet to hear of even one case though where it was a factor one way or another. Retraining yourself to write an essay may be a good idea, but I'd put much more effort into the personal statement than into worrying about the LSAT essay. If you're ever in a position that an essay is going to make a difference between yourself and another candidate, the personal statement is going to make a much larger difference than some lame essay about whether a retirement community should choose trip a or trip b for their geriatric get-away. |