u/Historia504

I wanted to come on here and give a bit of advice as someone who is overweight and in the process of losing weight. Waterpark/theme parks have always been stressful for me because weight limits/size limits can be pretty stressful. At my heaviest, I went to a state fair and tried to ride 2 rides and got turned away from 1 for just barely not fitting, and it was honestly the most humiliating experience of my life.

First of all, if you are over 250 pounds, your best option for going to a waterpark where you can actually ride rides is Noah’s arc by far. If you’re under 300 pounds, you’re able to safely ride almost every single ride available but one. Even if you’re over 300 pounds, there are still several you can ride.

Additionally, I wanted to put it out there that I went to Noah’s arc a few days ago and genuinely only one out of perhaps 6-7 attractions I went on had a scale, and that ride made it very explicit several times before you got on that they would weigh you, while other rides leave it to your discretion to take on risk. I’m not suggesting that if you’re 10-20 pounds + over the weight limit that you ignore the information and ride anyways, but if you know you’re very close to the weight limit or you’re worried about having to step on any scale of any kind at all, very few rides actually had you do that.

I can’t remember all the names of the rides we went on, but a couple for sure that did not weigh you included time warp, Bermuda Triangle, kowabunga, stingray, and chameleon. The only one we rode that did was scorpions tail. And outside of rides there was the wave pool and the endless river that we hung out in for a while and that was pretty fun too.

Again, this is not at all to suggest you should ignore these limits- it is with your safety in mind that they create them. I’m saying this because i know in the past that I was stressed about being a few pounds heavier than the limit and rejected going to parks with my friends because i feared being ejected from the ride and having all my friends end up knowing my exact weight. If I had known that basically no rides would care if I happened to be 5 pounds over the limit or that there were park options where weight would basically never be a concern, that would have made me feel a lot better.

Feeling really really depressed and miserable. RC went really bad for me. Ran out of time towards the last section because I spent too long on the third (mad honey) and the 4 was the cognition/braining firing gap thing that was just extremely dense. Basically half guess on all of them. Would not be shocked if this was a 15 point drop and already want to cancel. I feel like such a loser. I went from getting 179s to genuinely missing an entire section basically. I feel so fucking stupid this was an abysmal performance.

Something is actually wrong. The first time i posted about this, people were so kind to say that I was stressed out and that it was getting to me.

Yesterday I did a reset, calmed down, sticked to light practice, and did the same thing this morning. I am 100% doing worse. I got my lowest score ever on a timed LR section. This was what i got on my diagnostic. I was highly focused, i did not feel stressed because i had a successful warm up, I am genuinely just performing seriously worse than i did a week ago. 1-2 times is a fluke, this has been the last several sections where ive went down considerably in my accuracy.

Does anyone have literally any idea what this means or why this could be happening? Any experience with something like this?

im genuinely crying as im writing this so sorry if it doesnt make sense.

im about one week out from taking the lsat and i had saved as my final sections to practice with PT 159 and i did about 2-3 times worse on LR than I usually do. I did really good on previous exams (several PTs in the 175+ range) but on both PT 158 and 159 im like actually bombing (3x more wrong than usual) and I think its because the questions are so much more.... wordy? oddly abstract? Harder to follow? than a lot of the stuff I drill with and it really stresses me out. The powerball crystal ball meeting also freaked me out so bad because they insist that the tests are going for increasingly more abstract/hard to follow questions and I 100% agree with that just based on my own performance.

Additionally Ive started second guessing answers that seem simple and almost like straightforwardly obvious and going for answers that seem more "clever" even when I have to obviously stretch and contort them to make sense. Basically I get caught up in the abstractness of it all and debate between two answers and end up choosing ones that seem more abstract even if they are less sensible. They arent even the answers that people necessarily confuse, they are sometimes answers that less than 5% of people are choosing!

Im so fucking scared, my friends and family are expecting an insane LSAT score because I was consistently scoring very high for weeks and ive sunk months and money and time into this test and I feel devastated that at the last second im actually blowing it on the material that probabaly most resembles the test ill be taking.

I hate reading comprehension. Fucking went from 0– -1 for a whole month and now I’m back to getting -3– -4 on most sections. Why the hell am I getting significantly worse right before the exam.

I’m a person who gets super anxious about tests, so excuse me if this ends up sounding stupid.

Here are my past 5 test scores: 167, 170, 169, 179, 179. Last two exams were very recent exams (PT 154 and 157)

Each of these were taken about a week apart. I’m finding it a bit strange because I don’t really get how I jumped by like 10 points suddenly. I’m not complaining but honestly my goal was to get to 173+ and this is well beyond what I’ve been expecting- is it possible it’s just a fluke and I shouldn’t take these scores seriously? Or is it possible that something just clicked in me in the span of a week? The only thing I can say I’ve changed for sure is spending as much time possible reading the passages in RC and then breezing through the questions, instead of trying to actively speed through the exam.

I’m taking the August exam so not a ton of time to collect more data or get dramatically better than I am, but is it perhaps safe to assume im going to get a 173+ ?

Is this an easier PT? Jumped from 170 to 179 on this test, wondering if I actually improved that much or if I shouldn’t take this seriously. Know it’s curved but still finding it odd lol, then again it’s my fourth ever full length test so maybe my average range is higher than I realized… ???

5.5 weeks until I take my first official LSAT and I’ve been studying for about 2 months part time and one month “full time”, and finally got 170 on test 142. Goal is a 173 plus, here’s to hoping I can pull through in time. If I’m not averaging arround there in 2-3 weeks I’ll probably need to move my test to September and I really don’t want to lol

Small edit of additional question: do people generally recommend to practice with requested accommodations or do they practice without them and then its a happy surprise if they get them? For me, without the accommodations I struggle really badly so i dont know how to deal with the limbo of it all. Like i literally cant practice unless i can read questions/passages outloud but i dont know if they will necessarily grant me that.

I submitted my applications for my accommodations 2 days ago, and i wanted to know if anybody has a ballpark estimate of how long it takes in recent time to hear back about accommodations?

Im asking because it will help me know how i should study based on what i do and don't get. If they grant me the accommodations i requested, im in a good spot, but if for some reason they dont, i should probably try to practice with lower amounts of time and without stop start breaks and whatnot.

This might come off as pretentious, so please do not crucify me if I am being an idiot and missing something obvious, but I genuinely do not understand something.

Sometimes I see people take the LSAT and get extremely low scores that are not outside what they expected. I do not mean a fluke score, a bad test day, or a score far below their PT average. I mean scores that are roughly in line with where they were already practicing.

I 1000% understand that not everyone’s goal is a T-14 or anything close to that. But I have seen people report test-day scores in the 130s or low 140s, which is a very poor score to apply with to almost any reputable law school. I believe the lowest median LSAT score for a U.S.-based law school is still somewhere in the upper 140s.

I am not trying to rag on anybody at all. I am genuinely curious why someone would pay for and show up to an exam when they have no real reason to believe they are ready for it. Am I missing something about the thought process here? Is there a population of people who do not study for the LSAT at all and just show up blind hoping it goes well? Do people frequently spam test just to see what happens?

I know that simply being on Reddit and attempting to study for several months before taking the test already makes me not the norm, which may be a large part of the empathy gap here. But the test is expensive, stressful, and extremely low scores can absolutely hurt your chances of getting into law school. So I am genuinely wondering: why would someone choose to take it under those circumstances?

I made a pretty raggedy vent post last night about taking an PT and not getting the score i wanted, and decided to chill out and blind review today to see how i would improve.

On reading comp i went from -3 to -1

On section 1 of LR I went from -5 to -0

On section 2 of LR I went from -3 to -1

how should I interpret this? that its an anxiety issue or maybe timing issue? Should I just continue drilling untimed or should I try to add a timed component to my practice to this to get used to it? any advice would help.

one really odd thing I noticed is that i frequently debated two options on the problems i got wrong, but upon blind review i very quickly identified for several of them that neither of them were the correct answer and that i had entirely glossed over a better one... is that just a carelessness issue?

Hey yall, kind of stressed. For context, im exhausted, its 3:30 am and i just finished this practice test, so its highly possible my score is slightly lower than it generally would be. However I have severe anxiety/PTSD and my brain and heart was not going to let me sleep unless i finished a practice test today...and now im struggling to sleep because i freaked at my score.

i got a 167 on the most recent test. I accept that its a great score for it being my first full test, but also its not totally close to what i want to achieve. I'm decently below median gpa wise for a lot of the schools im applying for, so my goal is to try and make up for it by being at least at median LSAT wise for most schools i apply for. I test in august so there really isnt a ton of time left and that scares me.

my break down for test 146 is as follows: section one LR -5, section two LR -3, section 3 RC -3

Im a little shocked on how poor i did on section 1 because im usually strong in LR when i drill, but it did feel quite hard to me for some reason, could be time pressure. Additionally, compared to other practice sections ive done, -5 is terrible for me. I pretty heavily study LR and neglect RC because i hate it and am worse at it, so im kind of shocked with this shake down.

Should I take this as a sign to really invest more heavily in LR? When should I plan to PT next? how many hours of practice should i be doing daily and what types to bring it up from here? Literally any help is appreciated!!!

Recently graduated and am sticking around for a bit to finish law school apps/study for my lsat. I do have evenings and the occasional free weekend and I want to try out the iconic places/things that a Uchicago alumni should definitely know about/check out- during my degree I was frequently too busy to just explore, so anything from the most basic suggestions to more niche things I would highly appreciate hearing about!

I have a doctor and a therapist who have both written letters for me requesting 100% extra time and have specifically stated that the severity of my conditions (PTSD and PAD aka Panic attack disorder) severely slow me down enough that 50% is just not enough.

I see online that people say its pretty hard to get 100% extra time if you havent had this accommodation before. However, the reason i haven't had this accommodation before is that onset of PTSD occurred late in my bachelors when I just wasnt really having to take exams anymore and all my seminars were largely essay/presentation/participation based. Hell, in the entirety of my masters degree I didnt have a single timed exam so it just wasnt an issue.

Between a doctor and a therapist writing letters strongly in support of this, as well as my own statement explaining this background and why I currently need it, does it seem like i have a good chance? or is it pretty unlikely?

I could ask my psychiatrist to also try and write a letter in support but i wonder if three statements is overkill. if anyone has any experience let me know!

I’m graduating on June 6, and I submit my last final on May 29. Next week I have a few award receptions to attend and a conference presentation to give, but other than that, I’m mostly just in limbo.

I’ll be in Chicago through September, and since I grew up in the suburbs, I’m especially interested in taking advantage of UChicago specific events and resources while I still can. I’m not exactly in a rush to hit up the Shedd Aquarium again.

Does anyone have suggestions for events, campus resources, or other uchicago specific things I should make sure to do during my last week? only thing I could think of is trying to get my resume edited LOL.

Kind of sad tbh... the days sometimes dragged but the year was so fast

So I took an incomplete for a class last quarter and just got my grade back as an A. Great, but when I checked my transcript and it says IA. I was never told that Incompletes show up on your transcript (and I failed to do my due diligence and ask/investigate) and now I’m concerned about how this looks. The reason being is that I had to take 2 pass fails the previous quarter and of course the incomplete the second quarter, and I intend to apply to law school soon which of course they do not like to see a wonky looking transcript.

My question is firstly, does this I eventually disappear? Or is it going to stay like IA forever? And secondly, if it does stay like that, does anyone know if graduate schools tend to dislike this sort of thing? Or do they not care so much as long as the grade/gpa is good? On the bright side, I believe I’m ending with a 4.0, so I don’t know if that counts for something but yeah.