<p>I was planning on taking the LSAT in October, but is there a disadvantage to it? Will it disallow me to apply early in the admissions cycle?</p>
<p>Also, it looks like the October LSAT will not allow me to apply as an early decision to UCLA law because apparently the latest LSAT they accept is the September one (even though the October LSAT score will probably be released before their November 15 ED deadline).</p>
<p>I was planning on sitting for the October test date, and have never heard of a related disadvantage for early decision/action applications. If anyone has further insight, however, that would be helpful.</p>
<p>If I’m understanding things correctly, there is no September date this year, so the upcoming options are June and October.</p>
<p>the only disadvantage would be that you have no “safety valve”. If you bomb June, you can retake in October. Waiting until October kind of puts you all-in.</p>
<p>well apparently, since there’s no september LSAT this year, i’m speculating the october one will be the last test taken by UCLA (and probably other schools) for ED. </p>
<p>also, i guess because there’s no chance to retake it, i’ll probably have to take an entire year off if i really bomb it.</p>
<p>brian- I think as long as you are able to complete your applications by early november you should be ok. Again- the hardest thing may be to know which schools to apply to without your LSAT results. But if you have a core group of school ( with a few additional schools on the higher end if you do real well and a few others in the event you don’t do as well as expected) you can start working on your applications without the actual LSAT results. And if you do real well, you may not need to use ED for UCLA. As long as you are ready to sit it out and wait another year if your score is lower than you expect- then you should be ok.</p>
<p>Just stay flexible; have a back-up plan; and be willing to wait it out another year if you are not satisfied with your score.
Good Luck.</p>
<p>In 2009 the early fall LSAT test was at end of September and thus UCLA’s site says that those who applied in fall 2009 for 2010 early decison had to complete test by September test date. In 2010 that early fall test is October 9. UCLA (and all that have early decision) will take that one for Early decison for those apply in fall 2010 for entry in 2011.</p>
<p>You will still be able to apply early in the admissions cycle. You can send in your applications without knowing your LSAT score and the schools will just consider your application complete when they receive your LSAT score from LSAC. Or just submit all your applications as soon as you get your LSAT score back.</p>