There’s no better feeling than hitting the month of November knowing that you just dominated the LSAT, as far as we at Blueprint LSAT Prep are concerned. The trees seem greener. Babies seem sweeter. Even possums start to look cute, and not like demonic creatures from the underworld.

This feeling lasts for about six hours. Then the ice weasels of panic begin to gnaw at you and the question comes:

How do I make this work for my applications?

But it’s really not that tough of a question to answer, at least in our opinion at Blueprint LSAT Prep. The LSAT score more or less speaks for itself. Because it’s a good score, you don’t have to worry about explaining why you got it, in the same way that you would have to explain why you got a bad score.

A good LSAT score opens doors for you that would be otherwise shut. When you get a score that’s a 170+, you want to use that score to get into Top 14 law schools. So few get those scores that even with a somewhat marginal GPA, or weak tertiary elements, we at Blueprint LSAT Prep have found that you can still gain admission to very good schools if you get a very high LSAT score.

It is important of course to treat this with a grain of salt as there are many variables that factor into law school decisions including the personal statement, diversity considerations, and letters of recommendation. In fact, we at Blueprint LSAT Prep know of situations where students with great GPAs and lower LSAT scores have gained admittance into top tier law schools, so all hope is not lost if you don’t get the LSAT score you want.

However, a good LSAT score can diversify your options in many ways. At Blueprint LSAT Prep, we’ve seen students parlay an offer of admission at a top tier law school into a scholarship offer at a lower-ranked school, saving themselves tens of thousands of dollars over the course of their JD program. At Blueprint LSAT Prep, we’re also aware of studies that correlate a higher LSAT score to better first year performance. So in increasing your score, you also may be increasing your chance at law school success, as well.

As we at Blueprint LSAT Prep know, a great LSAT score puts you in a position of power when it comes to law school admissions, which is a rare position for a law school applicant to be in. On our behalf at Blueprint LSAT Prep, don’t waste this opportunity to grab the world of law school admissions by the hoo-ha and show it that you mean business.

Article by Jodi Triplett and Trent Teti of Blueprint LSAT Preparation. Blueprint LSAT Prep has been doling out expert advice and snarky rhetoric since 2005. Very few animals (no more than ten) were harmed in the making of the Blueprint LSAT Prep course.