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Your LSAT performance can increase tremendously, test experts say, through familiarity, study and preparation.
Your LSAT performance can increase tremendously, test experts say, through familiarity, study and preparation.
HELP COLUMNEven though Jennifer Keegan had gone to Florida State as an undergraduate, she wasn’t ready to enter law school at the same university without looking around at other places.
“I had a long list of 15 schools including private schools and schools outside the state, because I like trying new things,” she said. “But when I looked at all the factors – actual cost, the amount of career placement, the bar passage rate — I crossed many of the places off my list. FSU had all the things I wanted at an incredibly good cost.”
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Hillary Mantis is a consultant to pre-law students, law students and lawyers. She is the Pre-law Advisor at Fordham University, the former Director of Career Services at Fordham University School of Law and the author of Alternative Careers for Lawyers. She can be reached at altcareer@aol.com.
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