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Today is the last day to sign up for the June LSAT, but we’re not here to talk about the June LSAT. The June LSAT is old hat. Yesterday’s news. We’re here to talk about the brand new July LSAT. The test for those intrepid adventurers out there. The thrill seeker’s exam. That new wave to ride.

There are many reasons to take the new July exam. For one, there’s the natural advantage to being the first person to do something. Have you heard of Buzz Aldrin, the second dude to walk on the moon? Or Amelia Earhart, the second person to fly across the Atlantic solo? What about the Second World War? Of course you haven’t heard of any of these nobodies and nothingburgers. To get any traction at all, you have to be first. Which is why you want to be among the first people to take the July LSAT. Post a photo of you at the July LSAT — make sure it’s before the exam, though, the LSAT has a pretty staunch anti-phone policy — and you’ll be inundated with likes and followers, we assume.

Another reason? Taking the July exam will allow you to apply super early in the forthcoming application cycle. And that seems like it’s going to be pretty important for the 2018-19 application cycle. Last cycle saw a ton of people with really great LSAT scores apply super early in the application cycle. Since law school admissions are rolling, applying after that influx of good applications would put you at a competitive disadvantage. So if this trend continues in the next cycle, getting your applications in before all those people apply could give you a better chance of getting accepted.

But first you have to get a great LSAT score. How are you going to get that? Well, if you live in or near Washington, D.C.; New York, or Orange County, we have classroom courses starting just in time for the July exam. These courses will cover literally everything you need to know to ace the LSAT, and will provide you with an online account that gives you access to every published LSAT question, explanations for each of those questions, and 19 full practice exams. You’ll be taught by an instructor who has scored about a 170 on a real LSAT, has received over 188 hours of LSAT training, and is a delightful human being, full of LSAT knowledge and teaching experience. I could go on, but I’ll just let the results do the talking: students who have taken our classroom course average an 11-point increase from their first practice exam.

So check out links to the upcoming classes below. They all start within the next two weeks, so make sure to act soon!

If you’re not in these locations to take a classroom course, take a look at our online course. The online course will go through the same curriculum as our classroom course. However, instead of attending a schedule of classes taught by our instructors, you’ll progress through the online course at your own pace, through animated videos hosted by Blueprint founders Matt and Trent. You can sign up for the online course and begin your journey at any time, from anywhere. You can even supplement the online experience with a little face time (either in person or through … FaceTime) with one of our tutors. And, lucky you, our Spring Tutoring Sale is going on right now, at this very moment. You will get 20% off any tutoring purchase with the promo code TUTORME20, until Friday, May 4, at 6 pm PDT.

JULY LSAT CLASS SCHEDULE

New York:

–Upper East Side 2: Starts Sunday, 5/20 with instructor Dash Kwiatkowski

Orange County:

–Irvine: Starts Saturday, 5/5 with instructor Ross Rinehart

District of Columbia:

–Washington, D.C.: Starts Saturday, 5/5 with instructor Shir Davidovicz

Are you planning on taking the July LSAT, but missed our webinar last night? The one that was entitled “Everything You Need to Know About the July LSAT,” in which we provided attendees a primer on everything they need to know about the July LSAT? You did? Shame on you! Well … actually we can find it in our hearts to forgive you. We heard the basketballs were played very well last night. LeBron James and Russell Westbrook: very good at basketball, who knew? After last night, you know, we presume.

But you don’t know about the July LSAT. You missed out. But that’s OK. Today, we’ll give you five important facts to remember about the July LSAT.

1. It’s given on a Monday, in the afternoon

First up, some good news!The July LSAT will be given on a Monday — Monday, July 23rd, specifically — and check-in time is at 12:30 in the afternoon. That’s different from every other LSAT except the June test, which are all given on a Saturday at the unconscionably early hour of 8:30 am. So if you’re a night owl or a morning grumpster or, you know, an incorrigible alcoholic who can’t peel yourself out of bed before noon, well, congratulations, you picked the right exam!

2. It’s nondisclosed [sic]

Next up is less good news, sort of. It’s really not a big deal, but you should know anyway. The July exam is going to be “nondisclosed.” Which is not a real word, but it’s still a word that the makers of this exam insist on using.

What’s a “nondisclosed” exam? Well, when you take any LSAT other than the February (and now July) LSAT, you get your score, plus a bunch of other stuff. You’ll get a copy of your answer sheet, a copy of your exam, you’ll be able to see the score distribution that shows how the raw scores translated to scaled scores. Well, on “nondisclosed” exams, like the February and now the July exam, you only get your score back. Nothing else.

It’s not a big deal, especially if you only plan on taking the exam once. In fact, most people who get that stuff back don’t bother looking at any of it. Really, only prep test companies like Blueprint and nerds like me who care about this test way too much put much value in those extra materials.

The only way a test being nondisclosed would affect you is if you plan on retaking the exam. In that case, it would be helpful to see how you did on the actual exam, to guide your studies for the next exam. But even if you take a nondisclosed test and decided you want to take a later exam, you’l be fine. You’ll have taken so many practice exams before the real test. Those will provide a much larger data set than just one exam, and they’ll be just as, if not more, reliable in helping you plan your studies for the next exam.

Why do they make tests nondisclosed? Well the short answer is that they sometimes need to administer make-up tests. And they use questions from nondisclosed tests for make-up tests. For instance, last year, Hurricane Irma closed many test centers in Florida for the September LSAT. They administered make-up tests to those students a few weeks later, using exams made up of questions from previously nondisclosed exams.

3a. Scheduling a retake might be a little hairy

Before the July exam — an era which has a crass and unprintable abbreviation — when the LSAT was just given in February, June, September, and December, you had a lot of time to figure out if you wanted to take the exam again. If you took the exam in June, you could wait three weeks to get your score back, see how you did, and then decide, if you weren’t happy with your score, if you wanted to take the September exam.

Now that we have June, July, and September in semi-quick succession, you no longer have that luxury. So if you take the July 23rd exam, you don’t have a lot of time to figure out if you should take it again. We won’t know when exactly the deadline to sign up for the September 8th LSAT is until registration for that test opens in May, but the deadline is traditionally five or six weeks before the exam. And that means the sign-up will probably be in late July or early August. Which means that if you take the July exam and decide that you want to take the September exam, you won’t have much time to do so. You’ll almost certainly have to make this decision before you get your July score back. So what should you do? You have a few options.

One, you could sign up for the September test before or just after the July test, just to be safe. If you get your July score back and it’s good news and you decide you don’t need to take the September test, you can withdraw from the September test for a partial refund. It costs $180 to sign up for the LSAT, and if you withdraw before the partial refund deadline passes, you’ll get $50 back. So this option could cost you $130, if you decide you don’t need to take September.

Alternatively, you could just wait to get your score back, and then sign up for the November 17th exam instead of the September exam. You’ll have to dedicate more of your year to studying for the LSAT, but you’ll also have more time to get super prepared for the November test. If you go this route, however, it’s important that you get all your other application materials together as you study for the November test. You’ll want to make your November LSAT score the last thing you’re waiting on before submitting your applications.

Finally, you could just play it by ear. Just see how the July exam goes, and make your decision based on that. After taking a lot of practice exams before the July exam, you should develop a fairly reliable feeling about how the exam went for you. Now, this isn’t always the case — I’ve had many neurotic students far exceed their impressions on how they did. But if you can give a realistic appraisal of your performance, use that to determine if you should sign up for the September test.

3b. But, good news, if you use your July LSAT score, you’ll be able to apply early

OK, even though rescheduling might be a little dicy, if you’re able to use your July score, you’ll can apply very early in the 2018-19 application cycle. Law schools use rolling admissions — they start giving away seats as soon as they start receiving applications. Law schools start accepting applications in August, September, and October. Which means that, if you take the July exam, you have some time to get your application materials together after the exam, and send your applications in very early the application cycle. If you can get your applications in before any of the September test takers do, you’ll be like Michael B. Jordan in Black Panther … in super good shape.

And applying early and with a good LSAT score will be in all likelihood especially important next year. The 2017-18 application cycle saw a pretty sizable increase law school applicants and applications for the first time in years. There were more applicants, applying to more places, which makes things more competitive overall. Plus, there was a disproportionate increase in the number of applicants with a score of 165 or above. There was a 28% increase in applicants with a score between 165 and 169; a 15.7% increase in applicants with score between 170 and 174, and a whopping 68.7% increase in applicants with a score over 175.

Plus, there’s evidence that a lot of these applicants are applying early: if you look at the data for the 2017-18 application cycle at November, these increases are even more pronounced. At that point, there was a 36.4% increase for applicants with a score between 165 and 169, a 16.6% increase for applicants with a score between 170 and 174, and an insane 86.6% for applicants with a score over 175. We expect this trend to continue to next year. That suggests that not only will there be more applicants with good scores, but also that a lot of them will be applying early. Ergo, you should apply as well. Which you can do, with the July exam.

4. Otherwise, it’s going to be a pretty typical LSAT

Other than that, we expect the July LSAT to be fairly typical. The makers of the LSAT take great care to “equate” each LSAT, to ensure that, for example, a 160 on one LSAT administration means the same thing as a 160 on a different LSAT administration. They do their best to make sure that each LSAT administration is the same, more or less. So don’t expect the new July LSAT to be any easier or more difficult than any past LSAT.

5. We have courses for the July LSAT, that’ll help you get prepared

One really good way — we might say best way, but we can admit our biases — to study for the July LSAT: take one of Blueprint’s classroom courses! We have many classes starting up for the July LSAT, listed below. These classes are led by the best LSAT instructors in the biz, and students average an 11-point increase from their first to best practice exam. You can even still join some of the courses that have already started; if your local class is already underway, get in contact with the fine folks at the Blueprint office and they’ll help you sort out the logistics.

If there isn’t a July class around you, you can get excellent guidance from Blueprint’s online course. The online course goes through the exact same curriculum as the classroom course, only the disembodied heads of Blueprint founders Matt and Trent will teach you through state-of-the-art online videos. Or, if you’re a more old fashioned book person, try our Reading Comprehension and Logic Games guidebooks. You can supplement either with some one-on-one tutoring, and, between you and me, we’re going to have tutoring sale next week.

Check out the classroom courses below, and good luck on the July LSAT!

Bay Area:

–Berkeley: Started Saturday, 4/21 with instructor Aaron Cohn

Illinois:

–Chicago: Starts Saturday, 5/12 with instructor Cory O’Brien

Los Angeles:

–UCLA: Started Saturday, 4/21 with instructor Kyle Gehrmann

New York:

–Upper East Side 1: Started Saturday, 4/7 with instructor Dash Kwiatkowski –Upper East Side 2: Starts Sunday, 5/20 with instructor Dash Kwiatkowski

Orange County:

–Irvine: Starts Saturday, 5/5 with instructor Ross Rinehart

District of Columbia:

–Washington, D.C.: Starts Saturday, 5/5 with instructor Shir Davidovicz

I’ve lived in New York for four years now, and I’m still not accustomed to the weather. Coming from the sunny climate of Southern California, I am used to nice weather all the time. Now, I have to deal with temperatures in the 30’s and snow during “spring.”

For those of you struggling with the never-ending winter, I have something to warm your heart: the beginning of Blueprint’s LSAT classes for the newly added July LSAT! Over the next few weeks, we’ll be kicking off classes all across the country to prep for that exam.

So, why is this something to get excited about? If you want to go to law school, the single biggest factor in your application is your LSAT score. Blueprint classes — taught by experienced and highly qualified instructors — walk you through the ins and outs of the LSAT experience, while providing targeted advice to help you succeed. As someone who has been on both sides of the podium (I took Blueprint when I was preparing for the LSAT and I taught for Blueprint before heading to law school), I highly recommend the classroom experience for those of you looking to achieve a high score on the test.

Without further ado, here are the locations and starting dates for this year’s slate of classes in preparation for the July 2018 LSAT:

Bay Area:

–Berkeley: Starts Saturday, 4/21 with instructor Aaron Cohn

Illinois:

–Chicago: Starts Saturday, 5/12 with instructor Cory O’Brien

Los Angeles:

–UCLA: Starts Saturday, 4/21 with instructor Kyle Gehrmann

New York:

–Upper East Side 1: Started Saturday, 4/7 with instructor Dash Kwiatkowski –Upper East Side 2: Starts Sunday, 5/20 with instructor Dash Kwiatkowski

Orange County:

–Irvine: Starts Saturday, 5/5 with instructor Ross Rinehart

District of Columbia:

–Washington, D.C.: Starts Saturday, 5/5 with instructor Shir Davidovicz

When LSAC announced that it would administer, for the first time ever, a July LSAT this year, it threw us at Blueprint for a loop. I mean, for the entire time we’ve been providing the best LSAT classroom course available, there were always four exams a year: in February, June, September or October, and December. Year after year, we’d hold courses all across the nation to help countless students prepare for one of these exams. We had our schedules set. Like clockwork.

But then the capricious gods at LSAC announced the July 2018 LSAT, and we went into full-on crisis mode at Blueprint HQ. Our precious schedule was disrupted! We rang the emergency signal at the offic. Frenzied, someone in the office broke a glass case that hadn’t been broken since LSAC announced that it would be creating a comparative reading passage in 2007, freeing a key that unlocks Blueprint’s seldom-used emergency conference room. The best and the brightest minds at Blueprint convened in that room, and tried to make a plan for the new July LSAT.

During that emergency conference, we realized that, now that there’s a July LSAT, people are going to want to take it. And that these July test takers, traveling valiantly into an new world like the explorers of old, would want some guidance. Preferably from an LSAT prep course where students average an 11-point increase. The decision was clear: we’d have to offer classroom courses for the July LSAT.

So, we are proud to announce new classroom courses for those of you who will be taking the July 2018 LSAT. Check out the classes we’re holding for the July test below, and sign up soon!

New York:

–Upper East Side 1: Starting April 7th with instructor Dash Kwiatkowski –Upper East Side 2: Starting May 20th

Washington D.C.:

–Washington, D.C.: Starting April 21st with instructor Shir Davidovicz

Bay Area:

–Berkeley: Starting April 7th, with instructor Aaron Cohn

Los Angeles:

–UCLA: Starting April 21st with instructor Kyle Gerhmann

Orange County:

–Irvine: Starting April 14th with instructor Ross Rinehart

Sign up for one of these courses if you want to enter the brave new world of the July LSAT with Blueprint’s classroom course.

If you’re interested in the July LSAT but you’re not near the above locations, we still have your back! You can check out the schedule of classes for the June exam, and take the extra month after the exam to get some extra practice. Or, you can study using our online course, and you can start whenever you’d like, study at your own pace, and learn from the comfort of your own home. So no matter how you decide to tackle the new July LSAT, Blueprint can help.

“It’s March,” you say. “The June LSAT is a long way off,” you say. “I’ll think about it tomorrow,” you say.

Well, it’s intervention time, bucko.

The June LSAT is barreling down on us with all due haste, and plenty of undue haste. March is over on Saturday. Then it’s April. Then May. Then go time, baby. Plenty of Blueprint classroom courses are already well underway, and the very last of ’em go live on April 2. That’s Sunday, in case you don’t have your calendar handy.

Let’s just take a gander at what courses are available in your neck of the woods. Or neck of the desert. Or neck of the plains, or city, or mountain redoubt.

Start date April 1:

—Irvine

—San Diego

—Manhattan

—Austin

Start date April 2:

—Northridge

—Berkeley

—Davis

—Fullerton

—UCLA

—Pasadena

—San Francisco

—San Jose

—Washington, D.C.

—Miami

—Chicago

—Boston

—Houston

—Seattle

Don’t be an April fool. Be an April ninja. Sign up today, and get started on your dreams this very weekend. When those ivy league acceptances start rolling in this time next year, you’ll be thanking yourself. And us. But mostly yourself, because, after all, you made the commitment.

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