letmeadvocate (2015-2016)

151 stone cold is a solid score. If you study hard, there's no reason to think you can't score significantly higher. you might as well withdraw your applications.

Thanks for the encouraging words. Definitely hitting the books hard and going to aim for a top score. If it materializes, then I will apply for the next cycle.

I replied to your message before looking at your profile. Please let me first say thank you for your service as a police officer. It sounds like you've been doing great things for your community. I know people like to say that softs don't matter but, in your case and with your experience, I highly doubt that's true. Second, you should be aiming much higher than the schools that you've applied to! I'm personally cynical towards formal test prep companies because they didn't do much for me but you can definitely raise your score through self-study and tutors. Don't believe for a second that you can't do amazingly, especially since you have a solid start! Good luck. :)

Hi, I think you definitely have a shot at increasing your LSAT score. I live in NYC too and there are lots of free practice tests given in timed conditions given by Kaplan, Princeton Review, etc. These are FREE so you can just go to these events and take a timed test and they will give you your score in a week or two. Thank you for your service, and with that in my mind I think you should wait for next cycle. You seem very intelligent and very capable and even a score increase of 10 points could push you into some way better schools. Don't settle! Print out tests, study, get familiar with them. When you take the LSAT again, you should feel like it's just another practice test because you've already gotten so used to them. I agree with fearless, 151 is definitely a solid score. An LSAT score in the 160s, along with your softs, would leave adcomms of higher ranked schools (Not just Fordham, but think Columbia) seriously impressed. Best of luck to you! Message me if you need some tips since we're both in NYC. :)

Forgive me for not replying quicker.. Thank you all for the EXTREMELY positive and instructive feedback (via my profile page and through private messages). Unfortunately I was under the assumption that the LSAT was something like an IQ test (at least a verbal/logic one anyway), and one cannot really study for it, so that is why I simply went in and took it cold. Then after reaching out to so many of you here in the forum and receiving many responses with statements concluding (about 75% of all replies) that such is not so. Yesterday I took a properly timed practice test subsequent to about 40 hours of self study, over a 2.5 week period and scored a 163. Definitely a lot more practice to go, but I now realize this test is beatable with rote repetition of the various question types, and a slow methodical analysis of incorrectly answered questions. For prep I am using the 7sage online-on demand course and doing everything, and I mean EVERYTHING the course tells me to do. Hopefully by the June test I will get through all the (7000+) published LSAT questions in which the course offers. It is extremely copious in content and very thorough with explanations. Hopefully it will get me to 170! Thanks again everyone.