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Chances
I mean, two things. 1. MWB's point is about your admissibility. I'm short. Playing in the NBA is almost impossible for a guy my height. My noting that does not make it any likelier that the Raptors will offer me a contract tomorrow. Are there all kinds of barriers for folks whose first language isn't English? Absolutely, there are. MWB was describing the barriers, not endorsing them. 2. The implicit notion that, hey, writing a 170 LSAT is hard for those who don't speak English as a first language, but anyone else can just up and do it, is part of why I hate "study for the LSATs" culture so much. Only 2% of LSAT writers score a 170+ - that's about two hundred people in Canada every year. Almost everyone who writes the LSAT is some mixture of unusually smart, unusually privileged, unusually driven, or unusually self-confident for some other reason. To write a 170+, you need to not just be better at this than 98% of the general public - you need to be better at this than 98% of that subset of the population that writes the LSAT. The notion that 10,000 people are going to reach for a brass ring, 200 are going to get it, and that also, all of the 10,000 can be in the 200 if they all just try really hard, is...not how math works. -
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Letter of Permission - U of Calgary
Hello all, I’m a third year student finishing up the fall and winter semesters in Calgary. I studied for the first two years at TRU. I’m wondering if anyone here has done the letter of permission from TRU to anywhere else and if so, what was the process like at the end of the year to transfer the credits over? I took very specific courses at Calgary that are also offered at TRU (employment, immigration, tax, bankruptcy, family, etc) to hopefully make it easier for TRU to “accept” the courses for me to graduate. Is there anything I should be looking at or flagging as a potential issue come April? thanks! -
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Fair enough. Not sure what this means. Plenty of non-native English speakers get high LSAT scores. Hell, a sizeable portion of Canada speaks French as a first language. How will your future clients feel if you used this same excuse to justify poor performance? This is not meant to be a condemnation of you as a person, but rather a reasonable warning. There’s a real chance you may NEVER get into UBC with those stats. You need to re-sit the LSAT for high 160s if you want a not-impossible chance. -
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Chance me: 3rd year applicant 3.85 cGPA 168 LSAT
Interested in all in schools in Ontario but mostly the Toronto schools (Osgoode, UofT). I'm currently 3rd year planning to apply, just wasn't sure how that would skew my chances. cGPA: 3.85 LSAT: 168 Average(?) softs: work experience as research assistant, a few leadership positions in extracurricular clubs (including as President), some volunteering -
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ITLNCA Post OCI ITCs/PFOs (2024)
Bennett Jones sent PFOs to some schools today -
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ITLNCA Post OCI ITCs/PFOs (2024)
As far as I know, no. Other than me, I know at least one other person who did OCI with Gowlings and heard nothing. I have not heard back from Cassels and the other person I know who did OCI with them also has not heard back. But they didn't send the ITC before OCI call day, so who knos 😅 -
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Osgoode OCIs (ITCs, PFOs etc)
A&B specifically sent that info out to the ppl that OCId w/ them. Other firms havent been as transparent so idk -
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Osgoode OCIs (ITCs, PFOs etc)
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I am a Canadian PR. I am also aware that the discretionary category is not a waiver. Another thing to consider is that, at least based on my own experience, an LSAT score of 170+ is almost impossible for non-English speakers. As for my case, my accuracy was above 80%, but would need more time to process arguments on LSAT in another language. As for GPA, I cannot do anything about that. It was around 10 years ago and in another country, based on so many unrelated courses. In total, my decision of only applying to UBC was calculated :) -
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ITLNCA Post OCI ITCs/PFOs (2024)
Has anyone heard from Cassels? also I see Gowlings sent ITCs, did anyone receive a PFO as well?
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