Let's imagine your upcoming LSAT doesn't go well. You can retake! There's always a future LSAT date. You can always take it later in the fall or in the winter.
Rolling admissions matters a lot less than it used to.
Back in the days when there were twice as many law school applicants as there are now, it mattered more because law schools would just accept students immediately. They were afraid students would choose a different school and they would lose the benefit of getting your 165+ score or 170+ score.
Nowadays, it's flipped around a bit - there are so few applicants that law schools are choosing to wait to see who else will come along.
So they're deferring people. They're waitlisting people. Applying early matters much less than it used to. Students are retaking far more than before, so law schools are waiting to see who else is going to come along. This means you don't have to wait for them either.
You can just say, “Okay, well this test is just like any other. It's just a practice run where I happened to get LSAC’s proctoring. And this exam will one day be released as test 95, 103, whatever.
And some future test-taker, a few months from now, a year from now, six years from now, they’ll be taking my very same exam and it'll be their practice. So I can treat this exam the same because the importance of the LSAT does not rest on this particular LSAT administration."
And it's true. It all rests on your highest LSAT score. And the next exam that you're scheduled to take is not the only actual LSAT exam you can take. It's not the end-all-be-all. You have many future LSAT test dates when you can take it. It's offered nearly every month now.
There are so many opportunities for you to take the LSAT, and you're not limited to any one.
And if you want more proctoring, you can also go to one of the free proctored tests offered by the major prep companies for marketing purposes. And you can bring your own exam, if you want more practice opportunities.
So this LSAT test date coming up, it's not the only one. I wouldn't worry too much about it.
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