<p>1)During online registration, there was an option to release my LSAT info to my undergrad advisor. I tried to agree to that, but whenever I check that option, I'd get an error message booting me out of the registration page (good thing LSAC saves each completed page!) So in the end I just went ahead and registered without consenting to that option. My question: is that a big deal? will I be losing out on any services/assistance? </p>
<p>2)I didn't get any of my top 3 test sites. Is there some kind of waitlist I can go on that would allow me to get into those locations should space become availabe? (even though I'm already registered for a test site - I hear that you can only on a waitlist if you couldn't get into ANY test location, don't know if that is true)</p>
<p>3) It is really true that you can't bring a cell phone to the test? I'm obviously going to have it turned off during the test, but it'd be nice to have a cell phone handy in case I need it before or after the test. </p>
<p>1.) Just inform your advisor that you couldn't officially have him notified due to technical reasons and give him a printed-out copy of your LSAT score when the time comes.</p>
<p>2.) Not sure, but I don't think so. I was sent to a test center 90 min. away from my home and actually took the test there.</p>
<p>3 & 4.) This was not enforced at my test, but be warned that proctors who choose to enforce it would be in line with official regulations. I kept mine. I figured that if they enforced it, they could simply hold on to my things for four hours and give it back at the end.</p>
<p>so there is no way for me to monitor space availability of test sites? I was thinking perhaps they open up additional rooms at test sites if there are a lot of registrants from a particular area. Otherwise it doesn't make sense that ALL BUT ONE nyc test site are currently full, and it's only the beginning of Feb.</p>
<p>Certainly I never managed to do anything close to that. That's not to say it can't be done. Just that if it can, I didn't figure out how despite trying quite a bit.</p>
<p>Glad you got a spot. I am a little suprised too that so many centers are already filled.</p>
<p>D is going to visit her site tomorrow, just to get the lay of the land, and check out the space before the exam on saturday (she will go mid day so her timing will not be thrown off by mass transit during rush hour and will adjust for saturday timing). Hopefully once she sees the spot she will get an idea of how many people will be seated in the test room (her's is being held in an auditorium).</p>
<p>I think a lot will have to do with supply and demand. If all of the spots are filled and students are still applying for the june LSAT (which may happen depending on the february test) then there possibly could be more spaces opening up. </p>
<p>However keep in mind, if you are already at a site, they charge you a nice chunk of change to switch sites.</p>
<p>Given what I've heard about my current test site, I think I'd be willing to fork over $34 to take it someplace else. But to do that, I'd have to know when additional space opens up, and there doesn't seem to be a way for me to stay on top of that information.</p>
<p>Just curious: will it say on the admissions ticket exactly where in the building the test is held? I don't have my ticket yet (it says to check back in the end of Feb). As of now the only thing I know is that I'm taking it at this school. I'd also like to be able to familiarize myself with the test site and room beforehand, both to get a feel and so that I know exactly where to go on test day.</p>
<p>Her ticket just says the school and the name of the building, not exactly where the building is located (reason why she is taking a visit out to the campus).</p>
<p>Ok, so they do tell you the name of the building. Well I guess that's a good starting point. </p>
<p>If you don't mind my asking: do you know what your D is planning to do as far as cell phone goes? I still don't know what to make of the statement that a person could be dismissed from the test site if he/she brings a cell phone. This rule sounds rather draconian.</p>
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<li><p>I think I did release my scores, but no one's expressed any interest at all. If your advisor, your career plannning office, your school's law school advisor, or anyone wants it, you might ask if you should make copies.</p></li>
<li><p>I took the test twice under quite different circumstances. The first time, I was waitlisted for location and no, I don't <em>believe</em> that you can change it (without a fee) if spaces nearby become available.</p></li>
<li><p>The cell phone rule was a pain in the BUTT since both of my test sites were a ways away and I don't have a car. I had to get rides to and from the tests and I didn't know what time I'd be done. I followed the rules letter for letter b/c I wasn't about to get kept out if someone was strict. The first time, another girl in the room lent me her cell phone after the test. The second time, I used a phone in admissions (asking where the payphones were) and then a boy's cell phone (after asking him the same question). At my first location, the rules were pretty well inforced (this girl had hidden her cell phone in a purse pocket)...it was in an auditorium, lots of people, lots of staff. We could keep water bottles and snacks in the hallway. At my second location, it wasn't as big of a deal. Our bags weren't searched, the people who had accidentally brought backpacks got to put them at the front of the room, and so forth. At my first location, we were told we had to return anything "illegal" to our cars; they explicitly refused to hold our belongings. At the second location, they told us that we could store anything "illegal" with them. You would almost certainly get away with anything you brought, but I went both times with no cell phone, no book, no backpack, etc. and it really wasn't a big deal. Why deal with the potential hassle?</p></li>
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<p>One of the biggest problems my first time around was that I was TOO prepared. As far as the way it's administered, it's just not that different than any other standardized test. Do what you need to do to feel comfortable. Good luck!</p>
<p>I'm willing to pay the fee if a better test location becomes available; it's just that I don't know how I would even know it when more space opens up at a certain location.</p>
<p>As I understood it at the time I took the test (and I am no real authority on the subject), you can NOT be waitlisted for a particular location of your choice, you can NOT be waitlisted unless all "local" centers are full, and you can NOT change test centers to one that has opened up for the waitlist or to one that was previously closed. </p>
<p>Again...I'm far from positive, but I <em>believe</em> that the "change test center" option only applies to changes from the registered center to another open center (and there's no "tracking" system of which I'm aware).</p>
<p>If I'm correct in my understanding, then it does seem pretty inconvenient, but we all know it's not supposed to be a day-o-fun :-) Just to emphasize one more time: I don't swear by the above. It's what I gleaned from my own experience (which did include a brief phone call to LSAC re: similar but not identical questions).</p>
<p>Another anecdotal story- d's friend of friend was waitlisted. She was a metro NYC kid and all sites were filled (last June) and she was designated to take LSAT in Connecticut. They did eventually open up additional space in NYC a few weeks prior to the actual test so she was able to take it in NY. But up until a short time before the test, she was planning to go to Conn. to take it.<br>
Sybbie good luck to your daughter and everyone else taking the LSAT this week-end.
My only advice- dress in layers. You never know how hot or cold the room can get with this crazy weather!!</p>
<p>Hmm, so it seems like waitlisted people get first crack at additional spaces.</p>
<p>I'm still a bit confused on how you get on a waitlist in the first place. Until Marny's anecdote, I was thinking that you can only be waitlisted if you couldn't get into any site at all. But Marny was talking about a person who was already registered for a CT location and got off the waitlist for NY.</p>
<p>To me it seems like they gave the placed the young woman in CT because it was the closest site to her home with open spots even though her preference was to take the test in NYC. She probably asked to be placed on a waitlist for NYC should something open up (and it did)</p>
<p>I guess my question boils down to: can I get myself placed on the waitlist for a particular test site? if so, how?</p>
<p>Student615: I know you said that you don't think it's possible to be waitlisted for a specific location, but you also said that one can change his test site from one location to another open location. Does that mean, for example, that if it's true that more spaces open up later, then I can sort of keep a tab on this by attempting to change my location everyday? I haven't looked at the "change test location" option online yet, but do people just try that option regularly and hope that one of those days something opens up?</p>
<p>I have no idea. That might work for awhile, but you can't be on the waitlist in the meantime, I don't think.</p>
<p>The answer boils down to the fact that none of us seems to know for sure. Call LSAC directly and they'll be able to give you definite answers. Good luck!</p>