Law School Discussion

I'm about to send out apps and I thought I'd see what people think of my chances.

LSAT 160 / GPA 2.78 / Degree 2.95
Graduated in 1993... yes 93 not 03!

Over 11 years working in Information Technology.
Over 8 years experience as a managing partner of a regional internet service provider.
I'm seeking to pursue a law degree to practice Communication Law (as extension of my current career).

Here's my list:

Case Western
Catholic University
George Mason
IIT Kent
Indiana University - Bloomington
Michigan State University
Northern Illinois University
Southern Methodist
Univ. of Illinois
Univ. of Texas
Univ. of Toledo
Vanderbilt
Wake Forest

I realize that my GPA is LOW... VERY LOW for law school.  If in 1989, someone had told me that I would someday be applying to law school, I would have laughed.  It wasn't in the plan.  I was a computer-guru before most people knew what to do with a computer... law was very far from my mind.  Things change, people's interests change, will the ad-coms see it?
 
- Comm-Law

If anyone is wants to feel better about their own personal statement, this is your chance to shoot holes in mine.

I got lucky on this one.  The question was a gimme for me... I specifically remember it because I've actually visited the BAY OF FUNDY in Nova Scotia.

I could immediately relate to the question because the Bay has huge tidal shifts due to it's LONG conical shape.  As the Bay narrows, the amount of water being forced into the narrowing passage causes the 40ft+ tidal shift.

I really didn't pay attention to the usage or misusage of the affect/effect wording.  I just looked for the answer that I knew to be true.

I suspect that many LSAT takers run across questions where personal knowledge of a subject helps narrow the choices in a question.

I guess this one helps make up for that D*MN nerve-growth RC passage!!

I think that everyone went psycho over section B, question 1. The question read as follows:

 The tidal range at a particular location is the difference in height between high tide and low tide. Tidal studies have shown that one of the greatest tidal ranges in the worl is found in the Bay of Fundy and reaches more than seventeen meters. Since the only forces involved in inducing the tides are the sun's and moon's gravity, the magnitudes of tidal ranges also must be explained entirely by gravitational forces.

The answer choice that was the topic of this whole affect/effect reads as follows:

Which one of the following most accurately describes a flaw in the reasoning above?
 
 B) It fails to consider that the size of a tidal range could be affected by the conditions in which gravitational forces act.

I took the "Living with Diabetes" on the basis that that segment addressed a group of "peers" by interviewing a number of students.  The "What's Up Doc" segment was less likely to appeal to a large cross-section of kids because it focused on one individual who happened to be a "Rap-artist" if I remember correctly.  What if you don't like Rap?  Wouldn't that cause one to have a bias against watching the story?  As always, there are ways to argue for or against either choice in a writing sample.

The Chinese Pacific Coast was on the real RC section.

Yea, I was not a fan of that Canadian *&^%.  What else was there for reading comp?  Was the Chinese on the Pacific Coast on the real RC?  Oh yea and then the NGF *&^% or whatever that someone mentioned earlier.